OK, thanks! It sounds pretty good to me too.... best case will be if Miller's testimony is that SHE told Libby about Plame and if she ALSO reveals who told her, especially if her original source is Joe or Valerie or one of their pals.... that would be too sweet!
I argued on another thread some months ago that (speculation) right after Joe Wilson's op-ed in the NY Times appeared Judy Miller MUST have swung into intense action, interviewing every possible source she could find, because she had 'owned' the Iraq-WMD stories more than just about any other journalist, and it was a tremendous professional embarrassment for her as well as the administration to have Joe Wilson claiming he had refuted the "Niger uranium" claim (he hadn't) nearly a year before it appeared in the SOU address. I still think (speculation) that it is INCONCEIVABLE that Judy Miller did not go right at Joe Wilson in early July 2003, because he was eager to spread his story and she must have been in a frenzy to get on top of the newly emerging claims. I find it hard to imagine that she did not interview Joe Wilson and several other people around him in the days right after his op-ed appeared, so I've long thought that he or one of his associates was the most likely source for Judy Miller telling Libby about Valerie Plame. That's my (speculative) story and I'm sticking to it until something better comes along.
I think you have developed an excellent theory, and it fits with human nature. And that she is protecting herself as much as anyone else, and we can be sure she is certainly not protecting a republican politician.
That's my (speculative) story and I'm sticking to it until something better comes along.
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Ditto!
Your line of who told who what is the most logical of all. Whether we will ever know it for fact or not is up to the skill and power of Fitzgerald.