[Shermy]

This is what the court said about Miller:

"..In the meantime, on August 12 and August 14, grand jury subpoenas were issued to Judith Miller, seeking documents and testimony related to conversations between her and a specified government official “occurring from on or about July 6, 2003, to on or about July 13, 2003, . . . concerning Valerie Plame Wilson (whether referred to by name or by description as the wife of Ambassador Wilson) or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.” Miller refused to comply with the subpoenas and moved to quash them."

That week was the time between Wilson's and Novak's articles. The topic are are 1. Plame and 2. Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.

Who's the "specified government official?

[Miss Marple]

Hey, if there is a specified government official, maybe the government already knows who it is. Maybe it was .....a sting!

[cyncooper]

Well, I see you did separate out the Iraq/uranium issue re Miller's subpoena.

And Cooper's subpoena is more than Plame, too, and is anything about her, Wilson and the Niger trip.

[Fedora]

Thanks for the ping.

I'm pondering a comment Wilson makes in his book. Wilson states that after he published his 7/26/2003 NYT article but before Novak published his article exposing Plame, a friend of his (Wilson's) told him that Novak had said to him privately:

“Wilson’s an [expletive deleted]. The CIA sent him. His wife, Valerie, works for the CIA. She’s a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him."

Wilson's statement implies he had a friend who was in close contact with Novak before Novak wrote his article. If this person existed and is not another fabrication of Wilson's, who are they, and could they have played any role in leaking the information about Plame to Novak?

[piasa]

July 6+/- to July 13+/- 2003 is also the same interval during which the mysterious "TERRENCE J WILKINSON" appeared with alleged insider info on what was being discussed about the case against Iraq in the oval office- and how it was up on Japan Today in a heartbeat. Remember that Capital Hill Blue thing and how quickly Doug the writer of those pieces managed to get his past articles referencing that source deleted from the web, not just from his CHB site but apparently from web archives sites and search engines as well after he said he was notifying law enforcement of the "scam source" he says he met years ago out west? Could he delete these things, some of which had apparently been on the web for months by himself, or did the government do it as part of an investigation?