WASHINGTON, July 18 - President Bush changed his stance today on his close adviser Karl Rove, stopping well short of promising that anyone in his administration who helped to unmask a C.I.A. officer would be fired.
"If someone committed a crime, they will no longer work in my administration," Mr. Bush said in response to a question, after declaring, "I don't know all the facts; I want to know all the facts."
For months, Mr. Bush and his spokesmen have said that anyone involved in the disclosure of the C.I.A. officer's identity would be dismissed. The president's apparent raising of the bar for dismissal today, to specific criminal conduct, comes amid mounting evidence that, at the very least, Mr. Rove provided backhanded confirmation of the C.I.A. officer's identity.
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Yeah but that is all posturing. It's gonna be a Monica Lewinsky deal where Karl Rove didn't commit a crime, but the media did by printing it and they didn't get the source from Rove, Rove only confirmed it. You know they came out of a big spin meeting and this statement is a well-timed beginning to a well-oiled strategy.
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