Hear it for yourself on the new audio file on the Guardian website.* In the latest on Wilsongate, several reporters now want, off the record, to name Karl Rove as the White House leaker who called to tell them that Wilson’s wife was in the CIA.
Are you surprised? If so, did you miss Josh Marshall’s revelation that Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush presidential campaign after secretly planting a negative story with columnist Robert Novak.
Josh got that info from a Ron Suskind article, which has one other very relevant bit:
Inside [his office], Rove was talking to an aide about some political stratagem in some state that had gone awry and a political operative who had displeased him. I paid it no mind and reviewed a jotted list of questions I hoped to ask. But after a moment, it was like ignoring a tornado flinging parked cars. “We will f— him. Do you hear me? We will f— him. We will ruin him. Like no one has ever f—ed him!”
Ron Suskind, Esquire, January 2003, “Why Are These Men Laughing?”
I imagine trying to humiliate the guy and ruin his wife’s career would pretty well fit into that kind of game plan.
*Thanks to BuzzFlash for the link to the Guardian!
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1 Gary Farber // Oct 3, 2003 at 2:54 pm
Josh Marshall’s revelation? Say what? I read this story, along with millions of people, in 1992. When it was in, like, newspapers.