Update [2005-7-12 17:41:56 by Armando]: Title Changed, cuz article is ambiguous on what the "burning" meant. BTW, read the whole article, Luskin destroys a heap of GOP talking points, i.e., the nonsense about Rove not having named Plame.
I kid you not. The stories change by the hour for the GOP. Via
TPM,
Byron York:
The lawyer for top White House adviser Karl Rove says that Time reporter Matthew Cooper "burned" Rove after a conversation between the two men concerning former ambassador Joseph Wilson's fact-finding mission to Niger and the role Wilson's wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame, played in arranging that trip. Nevertheless, attorney Robert Luskin says Rove long ago gave his permission for all reporters, including Cooper, to tell prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald about their conversations with Rove.
Got permission and "burned" him anyway? Maybe Cooper needed "double secret permission?" Or a permission slip from the UN?
The part that is really confusing is Ken Mehlman says Rove was doing his patriotic duty when he outed Plame's identity, as a covert CIA operative working on preventing the spread of WMD, to Cooper. So which is it fellas? Has the line failed already?