Case of C.I.A. Officer's Leaked Identity Takes New Turn

NY Times ^ | July 28, 2005 | DOUGLAS JEHL

[SolidSupplySide]

In the same week in July 2003 in which Bush administration officials told a syndicated columnist and a Time magazine reporter that a C.I.A. officer had initiated her husband's mission to Niger, an administration official provided a Washington Post reporter with a similar account.

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Mr. Pincus has not identified his source to the public. But a review of Mr. Pincus's own accounts and those of other people with detailed knowledge of the case strongly suggest that his source was neither Karl Rove, Mr. Bush's top political adviser, nor I. Lewis Libby, the chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, and was in fact a third administration official whose identity has not yet been publicly disclosed.

[Lancey Howard]

I've always wondered does "administration official" conclusively mean someone who works in the White House?

When I hear some lying scumbag from a Democrat Party organ like the Washington Post or the NY Times say "administration official", I wonder what administration they are talking about.

[STARWISE]

Unless he's trolling for snakes, I just don't see Fitzgerald leaking .. he's paranoid about leaks.

[STARWISE]

Ping

[RandyRep]

The quote from Robert Novak about his other source was that the source was not a "partisan gunslinger." That would eliminate Rove, Libby, and the other politicals.

That fits Powell, Armitage, and plenty of other people at State and CIA. State commissioned the INR report but CIA undoubtedyl had a copy of it. Remember that when this broke in July of 2003, the CIA was being asked by everyone where the WMD were, since the DOD was not finding them in Iraq. State was dumping on CIA so as to keep Powell's skirts clean, since he took the CIA stuff to the UN.

Hopefully, the rogue anti-Bush group in the CIA who pulled off the Wilson trip to Niger will be outed in this process. And if we're lucky, Pincus at WaPo with his State/CIA contacts will be exposed too.

[Lancey Howard]

???
Fitzgerald is the last person who I would expect to leak anything.

[endthematrix]

Could "was in the CIA" and then moved into the State Dept. See - Larry Johnson.

[Mo1]

Mr. Pincus wrote in the Nieman Reports article that he had agreed to answer questions from Mr. Fitzgerald last fall about his July 12, 2003, conversation only after "it turned out that my source, whom I still cannot identify publicly, had in fact disclosed to the prosecutor that he was my source, and he talked to the prosecutor about our conversation."

What's the big secret if the SP already knows??

[Lancey Howard]

Hopefully, the rogue anti-Bush group in the CIA who pulled off the Wilson trip to Niger will be outed in this process. And if we're lucky, Pincus at WaPo with his State/CIA contacts will be exposed too.

Yes, the State Department, long known as a nest for Soviet spies and other anti-American mice, cannot be left out of the equation. In fact, Wilson (at State) and Plame (at CIA) were a marriage made in heaven (no pun intended) for colluding to pull off the Wilson-to-Niger scheme to smear Bush and influence the 2004 Presidential election.

[STARWISE]

Right .. I said that because there have been intimations on other threads that his office was leaking. I guess he hasn't put a gag order on anyone, then?

Robert Novak Talks About Plame Case, Sort Of

[STARWISE]

HEhehehe .... what doublespeak .. Professor Irwin Corey lives!

[kesg]

Could "was in the CIA" and then moved into the State Dept. See - Larry Johnson.

I don't think Larry Johnson held any position in the Bush Administration. He was a Clintonista.

[Lancey Howard]

Fitzgerald has not put a gag order on anyone, but he has "asked" principals in the case to keep quiet about their testimony and most have acceded to that request.

[Mo1]

Yes, the State Department, long known as a nest for Soviet spies and other anti-American mice, cannot be left out of the equation. In fact, Wilson (at State) and Plame (at CIA)

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Did you know that Pincus' wife once worked at the State Department AND the Clinton Administration??

http://www.public-i.org/about/staff.aspx

Ann Pincus
Director of Communications and Outreach
Ann Pincus has over 30 years’ experience in public affairs, marketing, government relations and management. She served as director of research, first at the United States Information Agency, then the Department of State from 1993-2001, where she supervised public opinion polling and media research around the world for the U.S. government. She was vice president for communications at WETA TV-FM from 1987 to 1993; earlier she served as press secretary to Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland, a publicist for National Public Radio, and director of information for the House Select Committee on Population. She began her career as a journalist, working for the Arkansas Gazette, Ridder Newspapers, the Village Voice and the New York Post, among other publications. She is a graduate of Vassar College.

[endthematrix]

I just meant that one could move over from the CIA to State.

[Lancey Howard]

There is one person whose name has rarely, if ever, been mentioned during the whole Plame/Wilson scandal - - Porter Goss. Goss is a loyal, conservative, take-no-prisoners Republican. I have no doubt that he has been digging around behind the scenes and even possibly communicating with former CIA Director George H. W. Bush.

This whole "scandal" smells to me like another masterstroke bait-and-switch set-up by Karl Rove.

[Lancey Howard]

Thanks for the info.
Pincus has zero credibility.

[ntnychik]

Post of the night!

[kayak]

ping

[NathanBookman]

Is that the 5th Beatle or some dude in drag from an Austin Powers movie?

[piasa]

Actually, State was dumping on Powell, too. One of Wilson's buddies is former State employee Greg Thielman and he was slamming Powell left and right.