[dogbyte12]

Knewt Royce and Timothy Phelps are from Newsday I believe. They share bylines, as far as I can tell by googling their names up. They write on foreign affairs & terrorism. Two new names to throw into the mix.

[dogbyte12]

FYI

[Shermy]

Is this the article?

Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover
by Timothy M. Phelps and Knut Royce
Published on Tuesday, July 22, 2003 by the Long Island, NY Newsday

[Timesink]

I don't have time to do any digging at the moment, but I will throw this in: Newsday has always approached its reporting from a weird sort of mid-60s paleoliberal viewpoint. Whoever Royce and Phelps are, don't expect them to be registered Republicans.

[aristeides]

Article by Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps from July 22 Newsday: Columnist Blows CIA Agent's Cover . The article does call her an "undercover CIA officer."

[OldFriend]

Newsday......rabidly anti republican

[roses of sharon]

I'll bet this is what happened. My quotes from vague memory of events.

Wilson smeared Cheney in his July op-ed, by saying Cheney ignored his report from Africa, and lied in the SOTU.

Cheney and his people said, "we had no report or memo, we made a general request of the CIA to check into the uranium claim, we did not know who they sent".

Cheney told Russert he did not even know Wilson.

Wilson then admitted he made no written report.

Somewhere in the gov. Bush and Cheney's people called reporters to say, "we don't know Wilson, did not request that he be sent, but his wife works there, so she probably put his name up to go".

In defending themselves against smears, they probably did not think it thru.

Who knows. Do these events sound right?

[SpinyNorman]

Lets see: the Bush WH cooperates fully, preserving all records and information, while the Clinton WH would have had everything shredded, wiped (both hard drives and people's memories), and cover stories formulated by this time.

What a difference.

[Stultis]

Need some Time magazine reporters in there as well:

In July Time Magazine Interview, Joe Wilson Said His Wife Had Nothing To Do With Niger Trip ^
			Posted by Pubbie On 09/30/2003 2:38 PM CDT with 87 comments Time Magazine ^ | Thursday, Jul. 17, 2003 | By MATTHEW COOPER, MASSIMO CALABRESI AND JOHN F. DICKERSON And some government officials have noted to TIME in interviews, (as well as to syndicated columnist Robert Novak) that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched Niger to investigate reports ...

[Diogenesis]

"What do you mean, 'the leaker was a Democrat'. Lie damn you"

[cricket]

WHY is Laurie Dhue on 'Fox' referencing Wilson's wife as an 'undercover agent' for CIA?

Am I missing something here or is this just a 'truth be damned' story across the board.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"Much Ado About Nothing".

aka: "The Dims Are Desperate For An Issue For 2004".

Already coming to a Leftist Theater near you.

Feh!

[bonesmccoy]

boy, those guys at the WH are P.O.'d.

GO GET 'EM GW!