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...taken the lead in crafting next year's agenda, brainstorming not only within the White House but also with lobbyists, think-tank experts, lawmakers and former officials of both the Reagan and the George H.W. Bush administrations. Friends of Rove, however, say that he feels bruised by the leak probe and that his relationship with his boss has never fully recovered from the fact that early in the investigation, he underplayed his role as a source for the journalists who revealed CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity. Says a Bush confidant: "The relationship is not bad, just changed...
...secrets. I didn't want anything out there that was going to get me subpoenaed." BOB WOODWARD, Washington Post journalist, on why he didn't inform his bosses that an Administration official told him two years ago about CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose leaked identity led to a federal probe, a jailed reporter and an indictment...
...final weeks before the grand jury indicted vice presidential aide I. Lewis ("Scooter") Libby on Oct. 28 for perjury and obstruction of justice, Woodward says he was asked by Downie to help report on the status of the probe. In the course of his reporting, Woodward says, "I learned something more" about the disclosure of Plame's identity, which prompted him to admit to Downie for the first time that he had been told of Plame?s CIA job by a senior administration official in mid June...
...Woodward expressed some surprise that Fitzgerald hadn't contacted him earlier in the probe, but had high praise for the prosecutor whose investigation he has openly criticized on television. During his time with the prosecutor, Woodward said, he found Fitzgerald "incredibly sensitive to what we do. He didn't infringe on my other reporting, which frankly surprised me. He said 'This is what I need, I don't need any more...
...China's Space Ambitions Re "Asia's Space Race" [oct. 17]: China may have a space program and a supposedly booming economy, but it is still a communist state with skewed priorities. China's ability to launch a manned space probe is representative not of technological superiority but of inefficient resource allocation. The Chinese people would be better off if the country's resources were focused on finding solutions to such pressing issues as mounting pollution levels, intellectual-property violations, inefficient and outdated state-owned enterprises and widespread corruption. Abhinandan Singh Bombay...