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Article: White House silent on Rove.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- July 14, 2005
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Byline: Mark Silva
Jul. 14--WASHINGTON -- Karl Rove, a master of the political attack with added credentials as a cunning operative, suddenly finds himself playing an extraordinarily defensive game, as a federal investigation of who revealed the identity of a CIA operative reaches high into the White House.
Rove, deputy chief of staff and architect of President Bush's political career, has reached the pinnacle of American politics with a blend of brainpower, discipline and ruthless aggressiveness.
But now, with the White House refusing to publicly discuss what role Rove may have played in the possibly illegal disclosure of a covert agent's ...