SPECIAL PROSECUTOR SAYS KARL ROVE MAY HAVE OUTED LIBERACE
WASHINGTON - Sources close to the Valerie Plame investigation say irrefutable evidence shows that White House aide Karl Rove outed Liberace to syndicated columnist Robert Novak. According to officials in the office of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Rove allegedly told Novak early last year that he “knew Liberace was a homosexual,” but asked him not to publish the story because, he said, “it would break my elderly mother’s heart.” Novak, however, cited a “compelling national prurient interest” in making public the information about Liberace, an interest he claims is expressly mentioned in the First Amendment. The outings of both Plame and Liberace were published in a Time Magazine article, “Things Important People Told Me Not To Tell You,” which created a sensation in the nation’s capitol and a firestorm of indifference across the rest of the country.
WASHINGTON - Sources close to the Valerie Plame investigation say irrefutable evidence shows that White House aide Karl Rove outed Liberace to syndicated columnist Robert Novak. According to officials in the office of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, Rove allegedly told Novak early last year that he “knew Liberace was a homosexual,” but asked him not to publish the story because, he said, “it would break my elderly mother’s heart.” Novak, however, cited a “compelling national prurient interest” in making public the information about Liberace, an interest he claims is expressly mentioned in the First Amendment. The outings of both Plame and Liberace were published in a Time Magazine article, “Things Important People Told Me Not To Tell You,” which created a sensation in the nation’s capitol and a firestorm of indifference across the rest of the country.
