Rove was named as a source by two lawyers who asked not to be identified

WASHINGTON (AFP) - E-mails surrendered by Time magazine to a grand jury probing the leak of a CIA agent's identity show that top White House aide Karl Rove was one of the sources, Newsweek magazine reported, citing two lawyers involved in the case.


Rove, who is President George W. Bush's deputy chief of staff, was named as a source by two lawyers who asked not to be identified.

However, an attorney for Rove, Robert Luskin, told Newsweek that his client "never knowingly disclosed classified information" and that "he did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA."

Time on Thursday reluctantly agreed on Thursday to hand over the internal e-mails, which were largely correspondence between their editors and reporter Matt Cooper, along with his notes on reporting related to the case.