Powell- “No Partisan Gunslinger”

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   scs

   July 16, 2005 at 12:09 am

   Okay, I take back my Richard Clarke theory. The only other non partisan type in the Bush admin was Colin Powell. The latest info from the New York Times shows Powell had received a memo about Valerie Plame before a trip to Africa shortly before Novak printed the Plame story. John’s theory may have been right.

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   p.lukasiak

   July 16, 2005 at 5:14 am

   Well, who ever leaked this particular story did everything possible to implicate Powell….

   What I found more interesting is the email that Rove sent Hadley that said that Cooper “didn’t take the bait.”

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   Richard Bennett

   July 16, 2005 at 5:54 am

   OK, so Powell told Miller and she told Rove and he told Cooper but meanwhile Wilson told Corn and he told the world.

   It sounds like a party game.

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   Phil Smith

   July 16, 2005 at 9:03 am

   After his conversation with Mr. Cooper, The Associated Press reported Friday, Mr. Rove sent an e-mail message to Stephen J. Hadley, then the deputy national security adviser, saying he “didn’t take the bait” when Mr. Cooper suggested that Mr. Wilson’s criticisms had been damaging to the administration.

   Who didn’t take what bait?

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   scs

   July 17, 2005 at 4:04 pm

   So Colin Powell found out about Plame on the plane after he read the memo. He told Judith Miller, Bob Novak, Pincus, and Cooper when they called him to get an update on his Africa trip. Miller called Rove and told him. Novak and Cooper called Rove to confirm and Rove admitted that he had heard the story too.

   There, the story is solved.