[SolidSupplySide]

I've always wondered does "administration official" conclusively mean someone who works in the White House? Could "admininstration official" mean "CIA official"? After all, the CIA is in the executive branch of government. I can't believe that the NY Times would muddy the waters with these terms, but it is frustratingly difficult to interpret the terms the MSM uses when describing this case.

[peyton randolph]

I'm betting it came from the Colin Powell Foggy Bottom brigades.

[beyond the sea]

I can't believe that the NY Times would muddy the waters with these terms

LOL.

[kesg]

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

Yes. For example, George Tenet was then an "administration offical." Consider that a hint.

[beyond the sea]

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

About as specific, meaningful, and descriptive as "sources say"........... it means nearly nothing.

[Pikamax]

THere is a nice little press war going on between the NYTIMES and Washington Post, they have been picking apart each others stories for weeks.

[Enchante]

"[Pincus] wrote in Nieman Reports that he did not believe the person who spoke to him was committing a criminal act, but only practicing damage control by trying to get him to write about Mr. Wilson."


Of course, Pink-us did not reveal to the reading public that he and his wife are in bed with the Wilsons and the whole campaign to damage the Bush administration, either. He claims he did not believe Valerie Plame had any role in sending her husband on the bogus trip to Niger, but did Pink-us ever show any minimal journalistic integrity and competence in revealing his own personal biases and relationships which color his reporting with the sewage of Democratic Party talking points???

[msnimje]

Interesting enough by why would Pincus have any credibility in this instance?

[eggman]

Who else in this administration uttered those 5 damning words: "Yea, I heard that too." when asked if they knew Joe Wilson's wife (who was a super secret clandestine operative for the CIA under the heretofore undisclosed name of Valerie Plame) recommended her husband be sent on the ultra secret fact finding mission to deepest, darkest Niger Africa.

The suspense is killing me. This just has to be worse than all of the other Bush Administration non-scandals put together.

[NathanBookman]

From Macsmind blog (note: "office" = CIA) -

"I was on the phone to the "office" today, thankfullly, there are still good people there who are willing to speak about this issue (Not everyone at the office was against the war). Suffice to say that there is more to come, and if I were Joe and Valerie, I'd put the champaign away for now."

http://macsmind.blogspot.com/2005/07/why-valerie-is-at-heart-of-plame-game.html

[Seattle Conservative]

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

I always thought it meant anyone in the current Admin. Lately, especially knowing how the MSM spins things and doesn't always tell the full truth, I've been wondering if it could mean a previous Admin official - - if that's the case, there's a whole barrel-full that could have leaked.

[The South Texan]

Technically, anybody that works for the government that is controlled by an appointed official is "an Administration Official." So, Valeirie Plame (Wilson) worked at the CIA under Tenet so she could be classified as an "Administration Official."beacuse she as an employee is in fact an agent for that appointed person. Heck the local National Park Ranger and IRS window Clerk could be considered "an Administration official" too.

The questions of whom Judith Miller is sitting jail for needs an answer from the NY Slimes more the stupid speculation on whom the other newspaper's and magazine's reporters got their info from. Which liberal/Rat are they covering up for?

[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.

[kayak]

ping

[syriacus]

Maybe "someone in the administration" means someone who administers a newspaper.

[GOPJ]

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

The New York Times gives hints, but we're not children. The wording "administration official" is a deception. It implies a person close to Bush has, for some unexplained reason, chosen to be loyal to the New York Times rather than to the President. On the face of it, it's damning. If true. But it's probably not true. Keeping the source unnamed allows the NYT's to get away with it. And yeah, my guess is some democrat CIA turncoat.

[Syncro]

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

Wow, they done writ that in stone, did they? Astounding

[Southack]

The NY Times could clear all of this up by simply ordering *their* jailed reporter, Judith Miller, to *report* (Heaven forbid) to the Public the identity of her leaker and the crime that was committed in front of her (i.e. leaking classified information).

Who is the NY Times protecting, and *why* are they spiking this news?

[Sacajaweau]

I agree with you that sometimes we use terms loosely. Using the words "CIA Operative" as applied to Plame can be construed to mean she not just a secretary....she does other things...like getting hubby a job and that's what I think it was intended to mean. I would have trouble concluding it means she is an undercover agent...particularly because she goes to Langley everyday.

As far as "administration official"...I'd say it means any "superior" working in any branch of the Fed government. It's a verrrrrry broad term.

[funkywbr]

You could say Joe Wilson was an adminstration official when hired by the rouge CIA outfit to go to Niger.

[popdonnelly]

So why does Pincus continue to muddy the waters with his own reporting? If he knows the source, and it isn't Libby and Rove, why doesn't he just say so in the pages of the Washington Post?

I would assume that Pincus has been telling his Dem friends that someone in the Administration is going down. The Dems appear awfully cheerful lately.