Monday, July 11, 2005
Frogmarch Watch: Previous Whitewash House denials inoperative?
AP does a nice job of "they said then/they say now" in the lead:
And what's with Rove's lawyer, Luskin, having expertise in money laundering (Josh Marshall)? I mean, Luskin gets paid in gold bars? WTF? Given that Coingate is screaming out to be a money laundering story (back), as is the pro-Iraq domestic PsyOps operation identified by Colonel Gardiner...)
For two years, the White House has insisted that presidential adviser Karl Rove had nothing to do with the leak of a CIA officer's identity. And President Bush said the leaker would be fired.
But Bush's spokesman wouldn't repeat any of those assertions Monday in the face of Rove's own lawyer saying his client spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified in a newspaper column.
(via AP)
And what's with Rove's lawyer, Luskin, having expertise in money laundering (Josh Marshall)? I mean, Luskin gets paid in gold bars? WTF? Given that Coingate is screaming out to be a money laundering story (back), as is the pro-Iraq domestic PsyOps operation identified by Colonel Gardiner...)