{"id":4760,"date":"2005-07-21T09:02:35","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T13:02:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4760.html"},"modified":"2005-07-21T09:02:35","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T13:02:35","slug":"im-a-source-not-a-target","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/im-a-source-not-a-target\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I&#8217;m a source, not a target&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This picture, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.crooksandliars.com\/stories\/2005\/07\/20\/rovenovakPicture.html\">from Crooks &#038; Liars<\/a>, will probably make a fine book cover when the story is written about the Plame Game scandal. The button on Rove&#8217;s lapel reads, &#8220;I&#8217;m a source, not a target.&#8221; Seriously.<br \/>\n<img src='http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/images\/rovenovak.jpg' alt='rovenovak' style='float:right;'\/><\/p>\n<p>As the caption from the original explains, the photograph was taken in June 2003 at a party marking the 40th anniversary of Novak&#8217;s newspaper column, just a few weeks before Novak ran a column outing an undercover CIA agent with information he apparently received from Rove.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back, the phrase is only half right. Rove was a source (for Novak), but he&#8217;s also a target (of a criminal investigation). That&#8217;s surely not what was meant at the time, but it&#8217;s funny how things work out sometimes, isn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This picture, from Crooks &#038; Liars, will probably make a fine book cover when the story is written about the Plame Game scandal. The button on Rove&#8217;s lapel reads, &#8220;I&#8217;m a source, not a target.&#8221; Seriously. As the caption from the original explains, the photograph was taken in June 2003 at a party marking the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}