State Department memo scrutinized in CIA leak case

Seattle Post-Intelligencer ^ | July 16, 2005 | DOUGLAS JEHL, DAVID JOHNSTON AND RICHARD STEVENSON

[oceanview]

I guess this memo will be this weeks feeding frenzy for the MSM.

where is the investigation for why Plame, a CIA analyst at Langley, can influence policy such that her husband is sent on a WMD mission to Niger, unknown to Tenet apparently, and used as part of a policial smear job upon his return. why does Plame still have a job with the CIA?

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Colin Powell 'memo in hand'. Hmmmm......

Powell's deputy also bragged about how he and Powell bothed leaked to undermine Bush when they disagreed with their president.

[Grampa Dave]

Below is a link to a thread of an excerpted oped that is excellent.

I have decided on a new tagline for this mess.

The MSM is trying to make us believe, Judith Miller is in jail to protect Karl Rove!

[mewzilla]

FWIW, I hope the Dems and the MSM keep this up.

They won't like what they find...

[Prost1]

How is the public name of Valerie Plame a "Leak"?

She was not legally covert!

Not covert, no Leak! Only the anti-Bush, money grubbing left including Joe Wilson is benefiting.

All the Lies of Wilson and he still gets press coverage.

Go figure!

[anniegetyourgun]

Frankly, I think Novak was her "source!"

[Cicero]

unknown to Tenet apparently

Plausible deniability?

[Grampa Dave]

Everytime one of these Clymers tries to stick Rove with this mess, someone needs to ask them: So Judith Miller is in jail protecting her source, Karl Rove?

Which is exactly what they are pushing. If Rove is the source, then Miller is in jail because she didn't want to disclose him as her source.

If anyone believes that, I have several bridges in NYC and the San Francisco area to sell them.

[pabianice]

Let's face it: Between the MSM and the wookies at NOW, this story is the only sexual gratification most Leftists are getting these days. Of course they won't drop it any time soon...

[mewzilla]

It'll all come out in the wash :)

But the best part will be watching the Dems hoist themselves. If only all the nation's enemies were this bloody dim :)

[Grampa Dave]

Naw!

Her source was Plame/Wilson. She took their story to the editors of the NY Slimes and the publisher. They decided to run with the story and assigned Cooper to do the hack job.

If Miller told her source, Plame/Wilson would probably go to jail and the old gray Whore, the Slimes, would be in real trouble.

[Grampa Dave]

I think that we will see this Dem sewer backup spew forth in the State Department, most of the MSM elites, Kerry/DNC and a few $inators like Chuckie from NY!

[Katya]

I agree...I've also thought it was Powell....the non-political/partisan administration official. That said, I don't believe anything he might have said, would have broken the law.

[Mike Darancette]

So it might be Foggy Bottom and not the White that may be the source.

Then Miller is protecting Powell?

[bitt]

"Oh, and one more thing...if anyone ever says that I leaked Valerie Plame's name on AF1, fageddaboudit..."

[neverdem]

Then Miller is protecting Powell?

Maybe, but she is also rehabilitating her reputation by not spilling the beans. She was one of the few in the MSM who was convinced and quite vociferous about Saddam having WMD.

[sportutegrl]

They will probably try a 'Martha Stewart' on Karl Rove, ie, even if outing Plame is not a crime, they can get him for lying about not being the leaker.

[truthpls]

Sandy Berger: were there any leaks about what the documents he stuffed in his shirt and socks concerned? Was there ever a trial, or just how was that situation handled?

[LS]

OMG, can you see where this may be heading? What if it was POWELL (or someone directly under him) who leaked the name, even by accident? And what if Bush, out of loyalty to his old friends (even those who tried to torpedo him) is protecting Saint Colin???????

The MSM may have just hanged the last (in their view) "good" black man!