Rove Waited Months To Correct Grand Jury Statements About What He Revealed To Time Reporter…

Associated Press PETE YOST December 12, 2005 at 09:19 AM
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During much of 2004, Karl Rove's lawyer was on notice that his client, a senior aide to President Bush, might have disclosed Valerie Plame's CIA status to a Time magazine reporter.

It wasn't until Time's Matt Cooper was under intense pressure from investigators to reveal his source that Rove, Bush's top political adviser, corrected his grand jury testimony, telling Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald of the conversation he said he'd forgotten.

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