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The New York Times (3/6) repeats many of the details from yesterday's Newsday article, but also includes this:

"Some lawyers involved in the case said on Friday that the request for additional documents may also indicate that, at least as of late January, prosecutors had not obtained concrete evidence that clearly identified who provided Ms. Plame's name to Mr. Novak. Otherwise, the lawyers said, prosecutors might not have needed to summon witnesses who were known to have testified before the grand jury in February."

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"But the precise significance of the subpoenas remains unclear. Of five lawyers interviewed this week about the case, none said that they understood the overall status of the investigation or whether the prosecutors had a working theory of how Mr. Novak had obtained Ms. Plame's name.

"The lawyers said that they believed, however, that the prosecutors were nearing a turning point when they would decide whether to charge anyone with a crime or drop the case."

Thank you. I read the article.

I see they are mixing up two issues and trying to make them interchangeable.

It is no surprise the WH would point out Wilson's obvious animous to the administration once he wrote his piece in the NY Times. After all, he wrote an anti-war column on the eve of war in The Nation, for God's sake. It is not criminal to point out Wilson's sympathies, and they would be idiots not to direct reporters' attention to it.

Then Newsday tries to insinuate that since they pointed out Wilson made flawed and incomplete public statements (and there can be no dispute about that, although sympathetic press tries to ignore it), ergo they are the ones to "leak" Plame's name in order to undermine Wilson. Stuff and nonsense. Mitchell and the other journalist contacts, as even this article documents (though they try to imply something sinister) with the WH commenting on Plame came AFTER the Novak and original Newsday pieces revealing the relationship.

I see Andrea Mitchell also says after she interviewed Wilson on July 6 the administration tried to paint Wilson as a democratic partisan. Well, he IS a democratic partisan. That is not the same as "leaking" Plame's name, but Newsday is stirring stirring stirring and hoping we mix it all up in one big mish mash and make one the same as the other. It's not.