Valerie Quotes

I like playing Valerie. She`s a chameleon. One moment she`s charming and the next she`s a `you know what`. I like her because she`s so two-sided -- she`s two different characters in one.

I was never clean, prissy and perfect like Kelly, and I was never a pot-smoking slut like Valerie. Kelly was the cheerleader and the perfect girl next door, and being that I grew up in the business, I never went to school. I was never a cheerleader. I never went to the prom. I didn`t have any of those experiences.

I wouldn`t be here this morning if President Bush had done the one thing required of him as commander in chief -- protect and defend the Constitution. The minute that Valerie Plame`s identity was outed, he should have delivered a strict and strong message to his employees.

Instead of a president concerned first and foremost with protecting this country and the intelligence officers who serve it, we are confronted with a president who is willing to sit by while political operatives savage the reputations of good Americans like Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson.

(to a reporter who asked him, after the Lewis `Scooter` Libby trial was over, to talk about the Valerie Plame leak case--Plame was an undercover CIA officer whose identity was leaked by Bush administration sources--which he promised he would do after the trial was over) It`s run its course. Now we`re going to move on. Next question.

Tonight, a surprising new development in the CIA leak investigation. Karl Rove`s testimony to a federal grand jury is being reported. The testimony suggests that President Bush`s political adviser may not have been the original source for the Valerie Plame leak. Rove testifying that he first learned about Plame from columnist Robert Novak, a CNN contributor. Dana Bash reports.

The damage wasn`t to one person. It wasn`t just Valerie Wilson. It was done to all of us.

I mean enormous pressure was brought to bear - Valerie Amos, Lady Amos, went round Africa with people from our intelligence services trying to press them. I had to make sure that we didn`t promise a misuse of aid in a way that would be illegal.

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

He wasn`t sure exactly which day, but what`s noteworthy about that is that is also before Valerie Plame is first identified in the Robert Novak piece that ran on Monday, July 14.

Potentially significant, by the way, because we don`t know exactly what`s in Matt Cooper`s notes, and we don`t know - and we don`t still know the answer to the crucial question of whether it was Rove or somebody else that revealed Valerie Plame`s name to him.