CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail

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CIA Leak: Karl Rove and the Case of the Missing E-mail
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Oct. 17, 2005 issue - The White House's handling of a potentially crucial e-mail sent by senior aide Karl Rove two years ago set off a chain of events that has led special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to summon Rove for a fourth grand jury appearance this week. His return has created heightened concern among White House officials and their allies that Fitzgerald may be preparing to bring indictments when a federal grand jury that has been investigating the leak of a CIA agent's identity expires at the end of October. Robert Luskin, Rove's lawyer, tells NEWSWEEK that, in his last conversations with Fitzgerald, the prosecutor assured Luskin "he has not made any decisions."

But lawyers close to the case, who asked not to be identified because it's ongoing, say Fitzgerald appears to be focusing in part on discrepancies in testimony between Rove and Time reporter Matt Cooper about their conversation of July 11, 2003. In Cooper's account, Rove told him the wife of White House critic Joseph Wilson worked at the "agency" on WMD issues and was responsible for sending Wilson on a trip to Niger to check out claims that Iraq was trying to buy uranium. But Rove did not disclose this conversation to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents in the fall of 2003—nor did he mention it during his first grand jury appearance, says one of the lawyers familiar with Rove's account. (He did not tell President George W. Bush about it either, assuring him that fall only that he was not part of any "scheme" to discredit Wilson by outing his wife, the lawyer says.) But after he testified, Luskin discovered an e-mail Rove had sent that same day—July 11—alerting deputy national-security adviser Stephen Hadley that he had just talked to Cooper, the lawyer says. In the e-mail, Rove said Cooper pushed him on whether the president was being hurt by the Niger controversy. "I didn't take the bait," Rove wrote Hadley, adding that he warned Cooper not to get "far out in front on this." After reviewing the e-mail, Rove then returned to the grand jury last year and reported the Cooper conversation. He testified that the talk was initially about "welfare reform"—a topic mentioned in the e-mail—and that Cooper then changed the subject. Cooper has written that he doesn't recall a discussion of welfare reform.

Why didn't the Rove e-mail surface earlier? The lawyer says it's because an electronic search conducted by the White House missed it because the right "search words" weren't used. (The White House and Fitzgerald both declined to comment.) But the e-mail isn't the only belatedly discovered document in the case. Fitzgerald has also summoned New York Times reporter Judith Miller back for questioning this week: a notebook was discovered in the paper's Washington bureau, reflecting a late June 2003 conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis (Scooter) Libby, about Wilson and his trip to Africa, says one of the lawyers. The notebook may also be significant because Wilson's identity was not yet public. A lawyer for the Times declined to comment.

—Michael Isikoff
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
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Former NY Aux. Fire and Policeman Uncovers Transit Authority Tapes Showing 'Heavy Smoke Condition' Below WTC On 9/11

More evidence now surfaces indicating explosions rocked the WTC and a pre-planned controlled demolition.

9 Oct 2005
By Greg Szymanski
http://www.arcticbeacon.citymaker.com/articles/article/1518131/34911.htm

More 9/11 evidence has surfaced indicating explosions rocked the North Tower prior to the jetliner striking the top floors, again showing the official government story is nothing more than a pack of lies.

Transit Authority conversations between motormen and dispatchers reveal a “heavy smoke situation” on transit line’s 1 and 9 adjacent to and in the sublevel basement area near the North Tower just minutes before the jetliner strike.

The obscure tapes, unknown until recently discovered in official transit authority transcripts and released in the Transit Authority News, adds further credibility to the numerous eye-witness claiming to have heard explosions rock the North Tower prior to the jetliner strike.

The conversations between subway worker’s came to light after avid 9/11 researcher and former auxiliary fireman perused through transit authority records after listening to the same conversations he taped himself on the morning of 9/11.

“I m an emergency communications buff and have kept many tapes of what what was going on the morning of 9/11,” said Paul Isaac this week in a conversation from his home in Brooklyn. “I have on tape the motormen talking to the dispatchers about a heavy smoke condition between building 5 and 6 right next to the North Tower.

“This occurred a minute before the plane hit the tower on the 1 and 9 lines that were running below the mezzanine levels between sub level one and two.”

Isaac, who has compiled an enormous amount of research contradicting the official story, said his tapes were verified by the official transit authority transcripts he recently uncovered.

“This adds more credibility to William Rodriguez’s statements that her heard explosions in the basement,” said Isaac about the WTC head maintenance man who has tried for years to get people to listen to his eye-witness accounts, corroborated by at least 20 other people in the North Tower who also heard the same massive explosions.

Rodriguez, the last man out of the WTC and declared a national hero for saving hundreds of lives, has had his damaging testimony censored by both the cowardly American press as well as the 9/11 Commission.

Besides Rodriguez, the commission and the press have never reported on at least 20 other eye-witnesses who verify the head maintenance man’s statements. And now comes the “heavy smoke’ reports on the transit authority tapes, also ignored by the lapdogs in media and the 9/11 Commission.

Further, the testimony of a man by the name of Felipe David, severely burned in the basement from the underground explosions, has also been suppressed by all parties, including the 9/11 Commission and the unscrupulous media.

“It’s a massive cover-up. We all know it,” added Isaac.

To illustrate the massive cover-up and to the extent in which former 9/11 commissioners are still lying to the public, recently on September 10, commissioner and former congressman Tim Roemer refused to confront Rodriguez or answer his questions after a victim’s and family meeting held at the Marriot Hotel in New York.

Roemer, who spoke to family members, told a heart breaking story how just after 9/11, a women who lost her husband, put his wedding ring on his desk, demanding the truth be uncovered since the only thing the widow had left of her husband’s after the tragedy was his finger in the ring.

Roemer, like a typical lying politician, told the families after that incident he vowed to get the truth behind who caused 9/11.

However, as quick as the tear jerking wedding story ended, Roemer forgot about his vow to get at the truth as he ran from the Marriot like a scared rabbit when confronted by Rodriguez and asked why his statements have been kept out of the final 9/11 report and from the most of the American people.

“You see, they still will not deal with the truth, but for the memory of all those who died, I will never stop telling it,” said Rodriguez after he tried to confront Roemer.

Besides the explosions rocking the WTC basement, Isaac said he has uncovered another little known fact, which also may show the WTC was a pre-planned, staged demolition.

Isaac, a man with a knack of digging a little deeper than most about 9/11, said two large 400 foot tall empty WW II fuel reserve tanks, standing side by side, were brought down in a controlled demolition in East Williamsburg (Brooklyn) on July 15, 2001, at 7:02am.

“I found out the same company, CDI, who had the clean-up contract at Oklahoma City and with the WTC, brought down the water tanks for no apparent reason and despite complaints from the neighborhood who tried in vain to stop the demolition,” said Isaac, adding the site still remains vacant and a reason for the demolition was never given by local or company officials.

“I think it might have been a dry run for 9/11. Perhaps they were trying to see the tilt and how the top 400 feet of the towers would fall in place. There has been no plans to put anything on the property or any valid explanation why they were taken down.

“But I do know the company who owned the tanks, Keyspan Maspeth, acquired a minor league baseball team called the Brooklyn Cyclones right around the same time. There may or may not be a connection, but it is suspicious and should be investigated further.”

Isaac’s investigations into terrorism have long been a thorn in the side of New York officials, including former Mayor Rudi Giuliani. The former auxiliary fireman and police man said he sent a personal correspondence a year prior to 9/11, urging the city to beeter prepare for terrorist activity as he felt the city’s resources remained vunerable

Isaac also was relieved of his duties, for conduct unbecoming an auxiliary police officer, after being alerted by a bus passenger on July 27, 2000, and responding to a bomb threat on a New York City bus.

After given clearance by NYPD, Isaac and his partner blocked heavy city traffic by 53rd Street and Madison Ave. and then a man with a brief case was apprehended. He claims, however, the only result of the apprehension was his suspension as he never found out what happened to the suspect on the bus or the contents of the brief case.

“It was very strange why I was suspended and I never found out what was in the briefcase,” said Isaac.

It seems Isaac almost always is in the middle of controversy as on the recent fourt anniversary of 9/11, he was involved in a confrontation with 9/11 protestors who set up their protest on the sidewalk in front of Ground Zero in the midst of the reading of the names of those who perished.

Isaac, who believes with his heart in the 9/11 truth movement, tried to convince protestors it was neither the time or place to create a controversy, especially on a morning which is set aside solely to remember those who dies without having politics getting in the way.

“If it was any other day, I would be right out there protesting with them. I would even do it front of the fire station. But on the morning of 9/11, when the families are mourning their loved ones, it just wasn’t the right time,” said Isaac, adding he was also tring to protect the protestors fro violence since many in the crowd seemed to be almost provoked into raising fists.

“This type of protest has a way of discrediting the 9/11 truth movement and maybe that was their intentions. I just don’t know. But I do know that the same people who were protesting, misquoted and totally printed things I didn’t say on their web site.

“If you read the Village Voice who covered what happened the next day, it was totally different then what appeared on the Wing TV web site. What they did wasn’t right on the 4th anniversary of 9/11 and what they wrote about me isn’t what I said.”