No Hint Seen in Memo that Plame's Role Was Secret. Hmmmmm, really?
We're suspicious that Karl Rove's atty, Robert Luskin, is the only "official" quoted for the writing of the article. Duh. The spin doctor (Rove via his atty) is trying to get the patient (the Plame outing case) to stop the bleeding. Anything that has the name Rove attached to it is probablly covered in buls**t, literally.
We're glad TMP helps us out here: "The memo] appears to offer no particular indication that Ms. Plame's role at the agency was classified or covert," wrote Sun reporter Josh Gerstein. He quotes Karl Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin: "The fact that the whole memo was marked this way further substantiates that nobody involved in discussions of her or her role in sending Mr. Wilson had the slightest inkling she was in classified status." The logic doesn't make sense on its face. The memo's author classified the information as secret, but thought the information wasn't secret?
Here's the headline story from the NY Sun's Josh Gerson: "Contrary to published reports, a State Department memorandum at the center of the investigation into the leak of the name of a CIA operative, Valerie Plame, appears to offer no particular indication that Ms. Plame's role at the agency was classified or covert.
The memo, drafted by the then head of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research and addressed to the then secretary of state, Colin Powell, was carried aboard Air Force One as President Bush departed for Africa in July 2003. A declassified version of the document was obtained by The New York Sun on Saturday."
