[CyberAnt]

"The case has been a revealing and disappointing look into how Bush administration officials tried to work with various reporters, in order to counteract false accusations about the administration's Iraq policy that had appeared in the press. In the end, they failed. It's a failure that demonstrates the folly of trying to curry favor with the liberal press."

The last sentence says it all: "... a failure that demonstrates the folly of trying to curry favor with the liberal press."

This is what Rush says all the time. Trying to please the media never works.

[xcamel]

Like we haven't been able to figure out that it an ex-Klintoon-ista that they should be chasing after.....

[DustyMoment]

While I believe that this report is probably true, I'm hoping to see a second source before I start celebrating ANOTHER MSM FUBAR.

[Leroy S. Mort]

For anyone wishing to catch up on the early history of yellow cake and the Plame game, two sources are very good:

Plame's Input Is Cited on Niger Mission
Report Disputes Wilson's Claims on Trip, Wife's Role WaPo - 7/10/2004

and

Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq Senate Select Committee on Intelligence - 7/7/2004 (pdf file) - particularly the section on Niger beginning page 36.

[syriacus]

Her story exonerates the Bush administration and it should put the focus where it belongs - on Wilson, his wife and the duplicitous bureaucrats in the CIA.

It sounds like Miller went to jail in order to avoid exonerating the Bush administration.

Joe Wilson's Perfidia-- Joe took the Islamicists' side when he said that the President lied. Since the Times spread Joe's tale, please put them in jail. And, certainly, Joe should be fried.

[george wythe]

Libby was frustrated and angry, Miller testified, about "selective leaking" by the CIA and other agencies to "distance themselves from what he recalled as their unequivocal prewar intelligence assessments." Miller says Libby believed the "selective leaks" from the CIA were an attempt to "shift blame to the White House" and were part of a "perverted war" over the war in Iraq.

The CIA and the State Department need major housecleaning. Unfortunately, President Bush has not seen the need to expell the leftist, liberals, and losers from these federal bureaucracies. At a minimum, he should have started a different hiring/promotion process that attracts and keeps American patriots.

[KC_Conspirator]

This is important because Plame's role in recommending him for the Africa trip, as documented by the Senate Intelligence Committee, possibly violated federal nepotism laws.

Yes, a fraudulent and blatant misuse of federal funds. Wilson and Plame should be charged.

[F.J. Mitchell]

The diagnosis is: With the exception of the Bush Administration and the DOD, the entire govertnment is ate up with terminal cancer and is attacking with a vengence, the remaining healthy parts of government.

The prognosis is not good.

[moondoggie]

snip...Who in the CIA was orchestrating the Wilson affair to damage the Bush administration? Is Fitzgerald investigating that?

If not, a major miscarriage of justice is underway.snip....

Let us hope that Fitzgerald nails all of them!

[Allen H]

When this is all over it will be further evidence that the "culture of corruption" does not lay within the Republican party. pelosi has only to look so far as her own democrat criminals and their media lapdog whores to find the real corruption in poltitics now a days. It sure doesn't seem as though there is any reason to think Rove or Libby will be indicted. And this new development proves something I've suspected for months. Why would a liberal times reporter go to the big hours for MONTHS to protect someone that's part of a Republican administration, ESPECIALLY Karl Rove!? That just makes NO SENSE! Now with her saying she can't remember the source of the information that she went to jail to protect, that makes me think what I thought when this first happened. She's protecting some liberal democrat. A democrat is the ONLY person a member of the media would protect when there are charges pending on who the source is. But there will likely be less media attention given to the real sourse being proven to be a democrat, if it is, than has been given to the speculation and flat out guessing that it might be Rove or Libby. That's the nature of the BS media. Accuse even if you can't prove it, the accusation will help the democrats, and that's all that matters.

[.cnI redruM]

Oh, no wonder the NYT left her in the can.

[marron]

Mr. Libby alluded to the existence of two intelligence reports about Iraq's uranium procurement efforts. One report dated from February 2002. The other indicated that Iraq was seeking a broad trade relationship with Niger in 1999, a relationship that he said Niger officials had interpreted as an effort by Iraq to obtain uranium."

What's more, Miller says, "My notes indicate that Mr. Libby told me the report on the 1999 delegation had been attributed to Joe Wilson."

In other words, Wilson was denying something that he had actually confirmed. In fact, there had been an Iraqi attempt to procure uranium from Africa. No wonder Libby was upset with Wilson's article in the Times and the CIA's role in arranging his trip.

[festus]

I still am of the opinion that her hubby did it .

[beyond the sea]

It's not really a story about Bush officials Lewis Libby and Karl Rove and their conversations with the press. Rather, it's a story about a CIA bureaucracy working to undermine the Bush administration through the media and cover up for its own

What a surprise.

[Prost1]

Wouldn't it be oh, Shakespearean, if Judith Miller were related to either Plame or Wilson....cousin, sister-in-law....

[beyond the sea]

It's been repeated endlessly by Miller's defenders that Miller was ordered to testify about the case but never wrote a story about it. She should have. Her story exonerates the Bush administration and it should put the focus where it belongs - on Wilson, his wife and the duplicitous bureaucrats in the CIA. ---

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Yes

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this....Link from today:

AP: Charges Don't Directly Address CIA Leak