Sorry, but the timeline just doesn't work.

According to Leopold "Rove instructed her (Ralston) not to log a
phone call Rove had with Cooper about Plame in July 2003."

Woodward already testified that he spoke with a government official ("not
Rove") in mid-June. Why would Rove cover-up a conversation about Plame that
he had with Cooper, if it was already common knowledge among the press corp
(as Andrea Mitchell admitted to in Oct. 2003...and later recanted) in
mid-June? It simply makes no sense.

Do you have any reason to doubt Woodward when he says that Plame's name was
mentioned very casually as an off-hand comment from someone other than Rove
or Libby?




"Harry Krause" wrote in message
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NOYB wrote:
jps already reported this.

It's from Jason Leopold...the guy whose reputation was trashed after he
fabricated a story posted on Salon.com.

Don't you read any decent news articles?


Ms. Ralston is being discussed quite a bit in the real world, fella. After
all, she was Jack Abramoff's executive assistant at Preston Gates and
Ellis and later at the Greenberg Traurig law and lobbying firm, where she
served as the assistant director of governmental affairs. Ms. Ralston
assists Mr. Rove in overseeing the strategic planning, political affairs,
public liaison, and intergovernmental affairs efforts of the White House.

Sounds potentially very juicy.

Hope so.