On September 29, 2003, three days after it became known that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate who leaked the name of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame, columnist Robert Novak telephoned White House senior adviser Karl Rove to assure Rove that he would protect him from being harmed by the investigation [] Rove has testified that he recalled Novak saying something like, "I'm not going to let that happen to you again," according to those familiar with the testimony. Rove told the grand jury that the inference he took away from the conversation was that Novak would say that Rove was not a source of information for the column about Plame.
"One other note: I'm wondering where Stephen Hadley is in all this. He was the recipient of Rove's July 11 e-mail informing him that "he hadn't taken the bait" when speaking with Matthew Cooper that date. Rove also wrote to Hadley, "I warned him [Cooper] not to get too far out front on this." It seemed from that e-mail that Rove and Hadley had discussed Wilson's wife and her CIA employment and/or role in sending Wilson to Niger prior to then. Was Hadley privy to Rove's version of the July 9 Rove-Novak conversation? Is he cooperating with Fitzgerald? Does he support Novak's and Rove's description of July 9 call or has he provided information to make Fitz and investigators more skeptical?"
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