Waxman Calls for Hearing into Rove's Role in Outing of CIA Agent

[kerrygoddess]

Waxman Calls for Hearing into Rove's Role in Outing of CIA Agent
11 July 2005

Henry Waxman is calling for a hearing in Karl Rove's role in outing Valerie Plame as a CIA Agent:

July 11, 2005

The Honorable Tom Davis
Chairman
Committee on Government Reform
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515

Dear Mr. Chairman:

I am writing regarding recent reports that provide new details about the involvement of Karl Rove, the White House Deputy Chief of Staff, in the disclosure of Valerie Plame’s identity as an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency.

An article in the Washington Post this morning and recent disclosures in Newsweek and other reports are extraordinary. If true, they indicate that the President’s top political advisor played a central role in the outing of a covert CIA agent. According to the Washington Post account, Mr. Rove’s attorney insists that Mr. Rove did not identify Ms. Plame “by name.” But Mr. Rove did identify her as the spouse of former Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, which would seem to be a distinction without a difference.

The new disclosures also raise issues about whether Mr. Rove acted alone or whether there was a conspiracy with other White House staff to use classified information for the political purpose of discrediting Ambassador Wilson.

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[joemurphy]

1. Think it'll go anywhere? I don't, sadly n/t

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Well well

No if people start telling them to do the bloody work and not to sit on their butt. But hey you guys need to do the telling.

[paineinthearse]

3. See GD post

from a few minutes earlier - http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4075285&mesg_id=4075285

[kerrygoddess]

4. Missed that...

Thanks.