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Ping. The story was leaked through John Solomon; John Solomon, incidentally, is under subpoena in the Niger/Wilson/Plame Leak case along with a number of other reporters. As we know, Wilson, the husband of the 'agent number 9' Valerie Plame, is also a Kerry staffer. Why did Berger's big news go out through one of the same reporters as the Plame business- apparently with the full approval of both Berger and his lawyer? Or is Solomon just a really popular fire hydrant to leak on?

Here are the subpoenaed reporters of Nigerlfap/Plamegate fame:

Robert Novak, "Crossfire," "Capital Gang" and the Chicago Sun-Times

Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps, Newsday

Walter Pincus, Richard Leiby, Mike Allen, Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post

Matthew Cooper, John Dickerson, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and James Carney, Time magazine

Evan Thomas, Newsweek

Andrea Mitchell, "Meet the Press," NBC

Chris Matthews, "Hardball," MSNBC

Tim Russert, Campbell Brown, NBC

Nicholas D. Kristof, David E. Sanger and Judith Miller, The New York Times

Greg Hitt and Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal

John Solomon, The Associated Press

Jeff Gannon, Talon News

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According to another Freeper:

Someone from the RNC needs to point out, RIGHT NOW, that John Solomon of the AP (who 'broke' this story) is Lanny Davis' favorite leakee, and that clearly they leaked it now, to prevent embarassment to Kerry.
And the RNC should be demanding all correpondence between the Kerry Campaign,and the DNC, and from Bergers Lawyer to DOJ.
19 posted on 07/21/2004 10:00:47 AM PDT by hobbes1

Since we like to look at 1999 and what was going on that would be in intelligence briefings, and since you mention Joe Wilson...

Remember, Joe Wilson's first trip to Niger (and the Senate Committee found that this trip, too, was suggest by Valerie Plame) was in ...... 1999.

Now, I was thinking of all these odd things, and one thing Wilson made a big deal about last summer was he just KNEW that President Bush and VP Cheney had to have been briefed on his 2002 visit (they weren't), but was Clinton briefed on Wilson's 1999 visit? Was there real evidence of uranium trading? Berger was scrubbing in the fall of 2003 when the Wilson story was being revved up to its highest pitch with even some murmurs of impeaching President Bush (we all know who concocted THAT angle).

I personally think there were several issues that several freepers have opined might have needed a good scrubbing. And the WaPo article talks about the several drafts of that millenium memo, but also makes a point of saying other documents are missing, too.