Did Hillary reveal who leaked report in her questioning of Rumsfeld today?

Senate Armed Services Committee ^ | 5/7/04 | Senate Armed Services committee

[abner]

In today's testimony before the Armed Services Committee Hillary Clinton may have revealed the source of the leak of the report. Please have a look at the relevant snippets of the transcript from today.

I guess my theory is this: If she isn't behind the leak, she knows exactly who is.

[MJY1288]

Check this out, Hackworth might be the leaker

Soldier's Family Set in Motion Chain of Events on Disclosure [Hackworth involved in CBS photos]

[John Lenin]

I'm glad I can't be slapped through the screen for that one. LOL
My first record was 'Time Won't Let Me' by the outsiders, my cousins sang backup on that song.

[NYC GOP Chick]

About the age you'd have to ask dad to buy an album that had the f'bomb in it???

I thought I said it was the first album I remember owning.

29, of course. :)

Stop making fun of me, Dan! :(

[lavrenti]

Gary was wearing shades and jumping around. Debbie was hot, as always.

The 1976-77 season was the best. Brian Ferry I think was on the same program, doing Price of Love and Let's Stick Together.

[NYC GOP Chick]

I'm glad I can't be slapped through the screen for that one. LOL

You should be glad for that! ;)

[NYC GOP Chick]

You are my rock/coolness idol! ;D

[Dan from Michigan]

"Puff the Magic Dragon."

Bwahahah. That was taught in 1st or 2nd grade. I had no idea it was a druggie song.

Maybe that explained why Pink Floyd was "Band of the Year" when I graduated from High School.(97)

[PhilDragoo]

JOHN KERRY = Enemy of Vietnam Vets

[lavrenti]

For some reason, Sweet "Fox on the Run" was playing through my head while writing that scene.

Guess that means I'll have burn some CDs eventually, huh?

[NYC GOP Chick]

That explains a great deal about you, Daniel!

[NYC GOP Chick]

Uh huh! ;D

[lavrenti]

TIME WON'T LET ME!!!

I'm not worthy. I love that song. The Outsiders rock!

[lavrenti]

Man, you're a puppy!

I thought you older than me, daddyo.

[Dan from Michigan]

Stop making fun of me, Dan! :(

That was supposed to be a compliment. Sorry. 29 1/2?

[NYC GOP Chick]

:(

[lavrenti]

Why, thanks for the compliment. Though there are many more fitting of the title. For instance, the WFMU fair tomorrow will be overrun with such.

Poor Daniel. He missed out on when Michigan had a music scene. Died with the Romantics.

[Dan from Michigan]

You'll never see me with any doobies outside of a doobie bros CD.........

I hate that stuff...all it did was make me paranoid. I'll stick with beer.

[conservative in nyc]

Well, General Karpinski (and the others accused in the report) likely had access to the report (and maybe the pictures).

In a response to questioning regarding the timeline of events from Senator Sessions, General Myers testified:

"It's important to point out as we go through it, and I had it in my opening statement, and I know we need to do things quickly and full disclosure and everything, but this 15-6 report, is what's called in the Army, the Taguba report, can result in administrative action such relief from command and other administrative admonishments to military personnel. So it has to be very, very thorough.

And that's why you'll see it was started and requested in 16 January. It was not approved by General Sanchez until 1 May, and the reason it isn't is because, as you go through the various chains, the people that are implicated in wrongdoing have a chance to look at the report and rebuttal the report. And that's part of this process that I think we owe it to our troops to uphold."

I'm not sure General Karpinski or most of the others directly accused had much of a motive to make the report public, however. I guess a sleazy civilian defense lawyer may have viewed it as a way to manage the media so that the DoD wouldn't have the stomach to court marshall her. If that was the strategy, it doesn't seem to have worked. Besides, it's likely a separate crime to release a confidential in the first place in and of itself.

But there's something even more interesting that Freepers caught in the live thread. In the House hearings, Representative Weldon made a request that Rummy

"look into a platoon leader that evidently was aware of these actions and a commander who has been transferred, but I understand not yet reprimanded or had charges brought, who is a staff member to a sitting member of Congress, to see whether or not there was any special treatment granted."

Perhaps this mystery staffer is the leaker, having recieved a copy of the report from others in his unit.

Now, whose staffer could that be?

[Dan from Michigan]

:(

C'mon, smile... You look young.

[NYC GOP Chick]

What is the WFMU fair?
(You see just how uncool I am?!)