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I did some research and I discovered that this is what Schorr
wrote about Karl Rove on 15th July, 2005.
"Let me remind you that the underlying issue in the Karl Rove
controversy is not a leak, but a war and how America was misled into that
war.
In 2002 President Bush, having decided to invade Iraq, was casting about for
a casus belli. The weapons of mass destruction theme was not yielding very
much until a dubious Italian intelligence report, based partly on forged
documents (it later turned out), provided reason to speculate that Iraq might
be trying to buy so-called yellowcake uranium from the African country of Niger.
It did not seem to matter that the CIA advised that the Italian information
was "fragmentary and lacked detail."
Prodded by Vice President Dick Cheney and in the hope of getting more
conclusive information, the CIA sent Joseph Wilson, an old Africa hand, to
Niger to investigate. Mr. Wilson spent eight days talking to everyone in
Niger possibly involved and came back to report no sign of an Iraqi bid for
uranium and, anyway, Niger's uranium was committed to other countries for
many years to come.
No news is bad news for an administration gearing up for war. Ignoring
Wilson's report, Cheney talked on TV about Iraq's nuclear potential. And the
president himself, in his 2003 State of the Union address no less,
pronounced: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein
recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa."
Wilson declined to maintain a discreet silence. He told various people that
the president was at least mistaken, at most telling an untruth. Finally
Wilson directly challenged the administration with a July 6, 2003 New York
Times op-ed headlined, "What I didn't find in Africa," and making
clear his belief that the president deliberately manipulated intelligence in
order to justify an invasion.
One can imagine the fury in the White House. We now know from the e-mail
traffic of Time's correspondent Matt Cooper that five days after the op-ed
appeared, he advised his bureau chief of a super secret conversation with
Karl Rove who alerted him to the fact that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA
and may have recommended him for the Niger assignment. Three days later, Bob
Novak's column appeared giving Wilson's wife's name, Valerie Plame, and the
fact she was an undercover CIA officer. Mr. Novak has yet to say, in public,
whether Mr. Rove was his source. Enough is known to surmise that the leaks of
Rove, or others deputized by him, amounted to retaliation against someone who
had the temerity to challenge the president of the United States when he was
striving to find some plausible reason for invading Iraq.
The role of Rove and associates added up to a small incident in a very large
scandal - the effort to delude America into thinking it faced a threat dire
enough to justify a war."
I think this proves that Vincent
Bugliosi should be investigating Karl Rove as well.
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Journalists
who merit respect. 