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Thursday, December 15, 2005

Today in Speculation

Posted by on December 15 at 11:50 AM

Here’s something I missed when doing yesterday’s…


TODAY IN SPECULATION

* In Slate, former Time Magazine writer John Dickerson takes apart Karl Rove’s claim that he simply forgot about discussing Valerie Plame with Time’s Matt Cooper (this “forgetting” is supposedly why Rove twice failed to mention the discussion to investigators).

Rove first testified before the grand jury in February 2004. In that first visit, he said nothing about talking to Time’s Matt Cooper. He also didn’t mention Cooper in an earlier interview with the FBI. Then, eight months later, in October 2004, Rove returned to the grand jury to alter his earlier account and volunteered that he had talked to Cooper.

What happened between February and October of 2004? Well, most of the presidential election campaign, for starters. Which would provide but one of Rove’s possible motivations for “forgetting” about the conversation. In any case, if Rove is indicted, this “I forgot” line will probably be central to his defense, and Dickerson makes it clear that when one looks closely at the sequence of events, it’s hard to buy Rove’s faulty memory.

* And in related news, a new poll finds 32 percent of Americans now favor the impeachment of President Bush.


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Compare that to Clinton's "Should he be impeached?" numbers.

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