美洲—布什助手再次为中情局特工泄密案作证

Bush Aide to Testify again in CIA Leak Case

布什助手再次为中情局特工泄密案作证

 

President Bush's top political adviser¹, Karl Rove, has been asked to provide more testimony² to a grand jury investigating whether a crime was committed in the leaking of the identity of a covert³ CIA operative. 

 

Karl Rove has already testified three times in the CIA leak probe, and his lawyer says he has agreed to go before the grand jury again before its term expires at the end of this month.

 

Special prosecutor⁴ Patrick Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether Bush White House aides broke the law when someone leaked the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame.  Ms. Plame is married to former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who accused the Bush administration of manipulating intelligence on Iraq's mass weapons capability⁵ in the run-up to the U.S.-led invasion.

 

Knowingly revealing the identity of a covert agent is a federal crime, and Mr. Fitzgerald is trying to determine if White House aides leaked the information about Ms. Plame as retaliation⁶ against her husband, Ambassador Wilson.

 

Mr. Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, says prosecutor Fitzgerald told him that no decisions have been made yet whether to indict⁷ anyone in connection with the leak investigation⁸.

 

White House spokesman Scott McClellan says he is not aware of any major new developments in the case.

 

Scott McClellan: That is an ongoing⁹ investigation, and the president directed that we cooperate fully¹⁰ with that investigation. As part of cooperating fully, that means not commenting on it from here [the White House].

 

Karl Rove has acknowledged that he discussed Ambassador Wilson's allegations with reporters, but said that he was not the one who revealed Ms. Plame's identity.

 

Karl Rove: I did not know her name and I did not leak her name.

 

Vice¹¹ President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, has also acknowledged talking to reporters in connection with the Plame case.

 

President Bush has vowed¹² to fire anyone in the White House who willfully leaked Ms. Plame's identity.  And, even though he has not been charged in the case, some Democrats¹³ have previously¹⁴ called for Karl Rove to either resign or be fired.

 

Among them was Massachusetts Senator John Kerry.

 

John Kerry: The White House's credibility is at issue here, and I believe very clearly that Karl Rove ought to be fired.

 

Some conservative supporters of the president are concerned that the leak investigation has become a big distraction¹⁵ for the Bush White House.

 

William Kristol is an editor of the conservative Weekly Standard magazine, he spoke on NBC's Today program. 

 

William Kristol: Obviously, everything depends on what happens. Will there be indictments¹⁶ or not, and we do not know.  I do suspect, in fact, I have been told, or I gather from people in or near the White House, that Rove has, understandably, been distracted by this in the last few weeks.

 

Karl Rove has been the president's top political adviser since Mr. Bush's days as Texas governor.  The president referred to Mr. Rove as the architect of his re-election victory last year.

 

Jim Malone, VOA news, Washington.

 

注释：

CIA abbr. Central Intelligence Agency 中央情报局

retaliation [ri7tAli5eiFEn] n. 报复，报仇

prosecutor [5prCsikju:tE] n. 检举人

allegation [7Ali5^eiFEn] n. 断言，辩解

identity [ai5dentiti] n. 身份

credibility [7kredi5biliti] n. 可信性

distraction [dis5trAkFEn] n. 分心，心烦意乱

1 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

2 testimony   

n.证词；见证，证明

参考例句：

• The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
• He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。

3 covert   

adj.隐藏的；暗地里的

参考例句：

• We should learn to fight with enemy in an overt and covert way.我们应学会同敌人做公开和隐蔽的斗争。
• The army carried out covert surveillance of the building for several months.军队对这座建筑物进行了数月的秘密监视。

4 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

5 capability   

n.能力；才能；(pl)可发展的能力或特性等

参考例句：

• She has the capability to become a very fine actress.她有潜力成为杰出演员。
• Organizing a whole department is beyond his capability.组织整个部门是他能力以外的事。

6 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 indict   

v.起诉，控告，指控

参考例句：

• You can't indict whole people for the crudeness of a few.您不能因少数人的粗暴行为就控诉整个民族。
• I can indict you for abducting high school student.我可以告你诱拐中学生。

8 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

9 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

10 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

11 vice   

n.坏事；恶习；[pl.]台钳，老虎钳；adj.副的

参考例句：

• He guarded himself against vice.他避免染上坏习惯。
• They are sunk in the depth of vice.他们堕入了罪恶的深渊。

12 vowed   

起誓，发誓（vow的过去式与过去分词形式）

参考例句：

• He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
• I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。

13 democrats   

n.民主主义者，民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
• The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》

14 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

15 distraction   

n.精神涣散，精神不集中，消遣，娱乐

参考例句：

• Total concentration is required with no distractions.要全神贯注，不能有丝毫分神。
• Their national distraction is going to the disco.他们的全民消遣就是去蹦迪。

16 indictments   

n.（制度、社会等的）衰败迹象( indictment的名词复数 )；刑事起诉书；公诉书；控告

参考例句：

• A New York jury brought criminal indictments against the founder of the organization. 纽约的一个陪审团对这个组织的创始人提起了多项刑事诉讼。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These two indictments are self-evident and require no elaboration. 这两条意义自明，无须多说。 来自互联网