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Rove on the ropes: sure, let's gloat: the president's guru has been flirting with this kind of scandal for years. It's time the bill came due.(Cover Story)

American Prospect, The,  August, 2005  by Conason, Joe

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> FROM THE VERY BEGINNING, THE WHITE HOUSE propaganda assault against former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV and his wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, a longtime officer in the CIA, looked like the work of Karl Rove. The malicious leaks against the Wilsons--which have led to the appointment of a special prosecutor and the imprisonment of a New York Times reporter--displayed the style Rove has developed ever since his youthful apprenticeship with the Nixon gang: false information, whispered and broadcast, designed to damage reputations of "enemies" and to divert attention from ...

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