2007-11-21 Bush involved in CIA leak case

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Date:	2007-11-21 (category)
Link:	http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7105001.stm
Topics:	George W. Bush Plame affair Scooter Libby Dick Cheney Karl Rove Scott McClellan Andrew Card whistleblowing
Categories:	George W. Bush Plame affair Scooter Libby Dick Cheney Karl Rove Scott McClellan Andrew Card whistleblowing

Bush 'involved' in CIA leak case

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At the conference, Mr. McClellan told journalists that the two aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in leaking Ms Plame's identity.

The excerpt reads: "There was one problem. It was not true.

'I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so: Rove, Libby, the vice-president, the president's chief of staff, and the president himself.'"

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“At the conference, Mr. McClellan told journalists that the two aides Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby were "not involved" in leaking Ms Plame's identity. .. 'I had unknowingly passed along false information. And five of the highest ranking officials in the administration were involved in my doing so..."”