Grand jury told how Rove indirectly confirmed the identity of CIA agent: "In the shadow of other news the Rove looks to dodge his bullet

The CIA leak affair took a new twist when it emerged that the White House adviser Karl Rove had indirectly confirmed the name of the agent Valerie Plame to the journalist who first made her name public.

The disclosure is bound to fuel demands by Dem-ocrats that President Bush fire Mr Rove – in keeping with a pledge he made shortly after the columnist Robert Novak identified Ms Plame in July 2003, that he would “deal with” any White House staff found to be involved with the leak.

Mr Bush himself has avoided comment. But he has signalled he intends to stick by the man credited with engineering his election successes, making sure he was photographed chatting with Mr Rove as the two left on a presidential visit to Indiana this week.

The fate of Mr Rove hinges on the findings of the special prosecutor who is investigating if anyone broke the law making it a crime to deliberately disclose the name of a CIA secret agent.

Mr Rove has told the grand jury investigating the case that he did not divulge Ms Plame’s name. He maintains he learnt it from Mr Novak during their conversation. Ms Plame is the wife of Joseph Wilson, the former ambassador sent to Africa in 2002 to look into reports that Saddam Hussein bought uranium there."

Rove seeks to dodge the bullet on this scandal...The mainstream media thinks that the idea of 'out of sight, out of mind' is the way to sweep this under the carpet...what they refuse to see is that Rove is OUT OF HIS MIND if he thinks he'll dodge the machine gun fire of this one...LET'S CAN HIS ASS RIGHT ALONG WITH BUSH!

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