With apologies to Mark Twain (and Winston Churchill?), it looks like the Plame-Wilson lie made it all the way around the world before Pincus put his boots on. To escape the heat, maybe Walter needs time in the cooler.
from http://macsmind.blogspot.com/
"Seymour Hersh: "Who lied to whom?" 03/31/2003
"The chance for American intelligence to challenge the documents came as the Administration debated whether to pass them on to ElBaradei...A former intelligence officer told me that some questions about the authenticity of the Niger documents were raised inside the government by analysts at the Department of Energy and the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. However, these warnings were not heeded."
" 'Somebody deliberately let something false get in there,' the former high-level intelligence official added. 'It could not have gotten into the system without the agency being involved. Therefore it was an internal intention. Someone set someone up.'
The question is - "Who is that somebody?"
I know it's the dailykos but it looks like the libs are starting to point fingers at Miller herself.
I wonder who the source was at the CIA that Miller spoke to?
They are trying to implicate Rove but knowing what we know about Larry Johnson and his VIPS people, this could be where the real leak happened.
Howlin, if you think it's worthy... ping your list.
But a very different scenario is being floated in the halls. Here it is: It's July 6, 2003, and Joe Wilson's now famous op-ed piece appears in the Times, raising the idea that the Bush administration has "manipulate[d]" and "twisted" intelligence "to exaggerate the Iraqi threat." Miller, who has been pushing this manipulated, twisted, and exaggerated intel in the Times for months, goes ballistic. . . So she calls her friends in the intelligence community and asks, Who is this guy? She finds out he's married to a CIA agent. She then passes on the info about Mrs. Wilson to Scooter Libby (Newsday has identified a meeting Miller had on July 8 in Washington with an "unnamed government official"). Maybe Miller tells Rove too -- or Libby does. The White House hatchet men turn around and tell Novak and Cooper. The story gets out.
Based on the thread title, I was hoping it was revealed that Bill or Hillary were the leakers. Of course, then the MSM would headline, "Rove illegally confirmed a possible leak from an unnamed source.".
It used to mean that Dan Rather typed it up using Word on his computer running Windows '73.
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.
I always find it interesting when the MSM characterizes situations this way when it has been admitted that it was the reporters who told the administration officials. It is even more interesting how people just glide over points like this in their haste to focus on other points. That's how urban myths begin.
-PJ