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Sources: Classified Memo IDs Plame
cbsnews.com ^ | 7/21/05 | Gloria Borger

Posted on 07/21/2005 6:20:00 PM PDT by beyond the sea

(CBS) There were new developments Thursday in the federal investigation of who leaked the identify of a CIA operative and blew her cover.

As CBS News Correspondent Gloria Borger reports, it turns out a key portion of a two-year-old State Department memo that is now at the center of the controversy was classified — and that could mean leaking it was a crime.

At the time the State Department wrote its memo, the administration's key rationale for war in Iraq was crumbling. No weapons of mass destruction had been found and some key intelligence used to make the administration's case had proven false. An internal war raged inside the administration over who was to blame.

The state department's 2003 memo was written to make one thing clear: don't blame us. But what now interests a federal grand jury is a single paragraph in that memo identifying "Valerie Wilson" as a CIA employee — and the wife of former ambassador Joe Wilson, who had gone to Africa to investigate Iraq's nuclear capability.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cbs; cialeak; leak; plame; rove; statedeptmemo; wilson
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This SeeBS news matron, Gloria Borger, was having way too much fun giving this report, and smiled broadly at the end. SeeBS couldn't lay off this story today. I think it was the third story on their lame news!
1 posted on 07/21/2005 6:20:01 PM PDT by beyond the sea
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To: beyond the sea

They're gonna frog march that copy machine right out of foggy bottom!


2 posted on 07/21/2005 6:22:00 PM PDT by kingu
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To: beyond the sea
Legal experts told Borger that the special prosecutor may be focusing in on charges of perjury rather than the original crime of leaking classified information.

Interesting. Who are these "legal experts"? Some law professor spouting off in Law Hall? Or someone who actually has knowlege of the case?

3 posted on 07/21/2005 6:22:53 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
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To: beyond the sea

Hase anyone heard where Dan Blather is lately? Where's his computer? Does he have access to a Kinko's?


4 posted on 07/21/2005 6:23:21 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: beyond the sea

Was the memo printed with MS Word For Selectric Typerwriters, too?


5 posted on 07/21/2005 6:23:31 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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Jeez, louise...they don't give up, do they?

They REALLY, REALLY want to use this to impeach Bush, also.

Although, now, I think they will try to us Gitmo and Abu Gharib to get President Bush...I don't know.


6 posted on 07/21/2005 6:23:52 PM PDT by Txsleuth (John O'Neill for Supreme Court Justice!)
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To: Bubbatuck; Echo Talon; Sam Hill; Shermy; Mo1; Grampa Dave; denydenydeny; ...

ping


7 posted on 07/21/2005 6:24:03 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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It is another case of SeeBS's Throw crap against the wall to see what sticks...

more of Throw out alligations with out proof.

Must be nice to make accusations freely with out having to back it up.. &#@!"n mass media... pfft!


8 posted on 07/21/2005 6:24:31 PM PDT by Americanwolf (Arizona... Land of the free, Home of the well armed. Remember boys keep the barrels pointed south!)
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To: Cultural Jihad

LOL........I'll ask Mary.


9 posted on 07/21/2005 6:24:32 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

C--bs
that should say it all.


10 posted on 07/21/2005 6:25:01 PM PDT by rodguy911 (Time to get rid of the UN and the ACLU and all Mosques in the US,UK.)
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Now what? Whats Colin Powell's deal in this? Does anyone know. Im confused again.


11 posted on 07/21/2005 6:25:45 PM PDT by newconhere
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Jeez, louise...they don't give up, do they? ---- They REALLY, REALLY want to use this to impeach Bush, also.

They are serious..........about making asses of themselves

12 posted on 07/21/2005 6:25:48 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

Is there anyone in the world who didn't know? By all accounts Valerie P was the most famous secret agent since Rocket J. Squirrel.


13 posted on 07/21/2005 6:26:45 PM PDT by Argus
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To: beyond the sea

I know BS when I CBS.....


14 posted on 07/21/2005 6:26:50 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Liberals preach comity and practice calumny.)
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To: beyond the sea

I love it when the old media and the dems keep digging.


15 posted on 07/21/2005 6:27:07 PM PDT by mdittmar (May God watch over those who serve,and have served, to keep us free.)
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Wouldn't it be funny if this backfired on them, and it implicated their favorite guy, Colin Powell, instead of Rove??


16 posted on 07/21/2005 6:28:07 PM PDT by Txsleuth (John O'Neill for Supreme Court Justice!)
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At the time the State Department wrote its memo, the administration's key rationale for war in Iraq was crumbling.

***

How's that for down the middle, unbiased reporting?

SeeBS is the lowest!

17 posted on 07/21/2005 6:28:40 PM PDT by beyond the sea ("If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball." - Jack Lemmon)
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To: beyond the sea

That "(S)" next to the restricted access paragraph doesn't necessarily mean that Plame's name was the restricted access item. The rules are that if anything in the paragraph is restricted access then the paragraph (or page) gets marked. That means someone else or something else that WAS secret could have been mentioned. As least as best as I understand.


18 posted on 07/21/2005 6:28:40 PM PDT by bvw
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As CBS News Correspondent Gloria Borger reports, it turns out a key portion of a two-year-old State Department memo that is now at the center of the controversy was classified — and that could mean leaking it was a crime.

So put the lying reporters in jail!

Judith Miller is in jail.

One down ...

Thousands to go ...

19 posted on 07/21/2005 6:29:08 PM PDT by af_vet_1981
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Re: "They're gonna frog march that copy machine right out of foggy bottom!"

They'll do that over my cold, dead body!

Bender is very protective of his relatives...

However, I'd knock that Gloria B. flat on her big fat a$$!

20 posted on 07/21/2005 6:29:15 PM PDT by sonofatpatcher2 (Texas, Love & a .45-- What more could you want, campers? };^)
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