So now we know: It was Karl Rove, left, who outed Valerie Plame to Time reporter Matthew Cooper in the White House effort to discredit and personally threaten former ambassador Joe Wilson after he exposed as bogus the U.S. claim that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger. Rove didn’t use her name; he merely called her “Wilson’s wife,” according to an e-mail Cooper wrote his boss.
We’re supposed to believe Rove didn’t know she was a CIA operative who worked on WMD issues even though he told Cooper, in another bogus claim, that she “authorized the trip” Wilson made to Niger to investigate the attempted purchase. And we’re supposed to believe that by not using her name Rove didn’t actually out her. Anyone who believes either supposition wins the booby prize.
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