The Case Against Rove
Obstruction
Rove concealed evidence when he failed to turn over his email to Hadley as requested in the original 9/30/03 document request from investigators.
Rove concealed evidence when he failed to turn over the phone log of the Cooper call as requested in the original 9/30/03 document request from investigators.
Rove failed to disclose his conversation with Cooper
Perjury
Rove lied when he told the GJ he first learned of Plame from reporters not government sources. Rove changes his story and says it is possible he learned of Plame from Libby after he was shown testimony from Libby that stated Libby had told him.
Rove likely lied when he told prosectors that he could not remember which reporter told him about Plame or when they told him.
Rove lied to investigators when he said that he hadn't talked to reporters about Plame until he read about it in Novak's column.
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Conspiracy
Rove and Novak
Rove may have conspired with Novak to coordinate their stories.
Within a couple of days of the announcement of the investigation of the outing of a covert CIA operative, Novak sets up Rove's story.
Novak writes another column on 10/1/03 stating that his second source[Rove] said "Oh, you know about it"
Rove's version; "I heard that, too,"
Updated
This Waas article has the FBI looking at a series of phone calls between Rove and Novak shortly after the investigation was announced.
Rove, Novak, and Clifford May
Rove, Novak, and Clifford May may have conspired to provide Rove cover in outing a covert CIA operative by saying Plames's identity was not secret.
May writes his column first, then Novak writes his second column explaining how Plames's identity is "not much of a secret" and then he links to the May column as proof.
They even use the same word to describe how casual the information was being passed around.
I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhanded manner
Clifford May 9/29/03
It was an offhand revelation from this official, ...
Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge
Novak 10/1/03
Rove and Libby
Rove and Libby both told the same story to investigators and prosecutors. I heard it from the reporters. We know that they talked about Plame before Novak's column because Libby testified that he told Rove about Plame.
I think it highly likely that the coordinated coverup was stopped in it's tracks when Federal investigators started asking questions. This from a little known Murray Waas article.
as many as a half-dozen White House officials have been asked by federal investigators about contacts they had with the Republican National Committee and conservative political activists.
Waas 10/31/03
Another Waas article details the RNC actions in 10/03.
Waas 10/29/03
Second, the exact same line "Oh I heard that too" was used by both Rove and Libby in their made-up stories. It's too convenient to believe they both used--and remembered--the exactly same term.
EW on Swopa
Miller part of the Conspiracy? The left Coaster and EW
Waas on Rove
"He will also be questioned regarding contacts with other senior administration officials, such as then-deputy National Security advisor Stephen J. Hadley and I. Lewis Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney in the critical week before the publication of columnist Robert Novak's column on July 14, 2003, which outed Plame as a covert CIA operative."
Waas 10/6/05