Posted on 10/24/2005 6:28:34 PM PDT by nj26
I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, first learned about the C.I.A. officer at the heart of the leak investigation in a conversation with Mr. Cheney weeks before her identity became public in 2003, lawyers involved in the case said Monday.
Notes of the previously undisclosed conversation between Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney on June 12, 2003, appear to differ from Mr. Libby’s testimony to a federal grand jury that he initially learned about the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, from journalists, the lawyers said.
The notes, taken by Mr. Libby during the conversation, for the first time place Mr. Cheney in the middle of an effort by the White House to learn about Ms. Wilson’s husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, who was questioning the administration’s handling of intelligence about Iraq’s nuclear program to justify the war.
Lawyers said the notes show that Mr. Cheney knew that Ms. Wilson worked at the C.I.A. more than a month before her identity was made public and her undercover status was disclosed in a syndicated column by Robert D. Novak on July 14, 2003.
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OK, Cool
LOL! My thoughts exactly, although since I have yong kids get out and and let your sister/father/me get into the bathroom."
I agree with you, but that is the true context in which the VEEP would make the wilson/CIA ( Plame) connection.
He was right and duty bound to do so. Why would anyone think that it was petty revenge against Wilson? The CIA launched a covert op., using Wilson, against the President of the United States? I hope some of those CIA liberal wingnuts were fired, with many more of them to follow!!
Shortly after this , was it not the time when the CIA Director was replaced by President Bush?
I believe that this is the proper context in which any one would view this Wilson/CIA connection, through Wilsons "wife" or otherwise.
Was Tenent part of the cabal?
Try Pray for President Bush thread. Its encouraging & makes you feel like your doing more than hearing the latest scoop.
Mobsters cringe at the sound of their name, and not because they're on opposite sides of the law.
There seems to be a disconnect in the first few paragraphs. This disconnect appears to imply something that the newspaper report doesn't say. They would come out and say it if it did. Read it again. It's not hard and it's not sinister. I think this is crafty bs.
that dovetails with this article (and the leak behind it).
If Libby is indicted, the left will say he "lied to protect Cheney". that's where its going.
That is a lie. How much of the rest of the article is also a lie?!!!
David Corn is the first person who printed that Plame was working for CIA and his source was JOE WILSON!
Robert Novak:
The leak now under Justice Department investigation is described by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. To protect my own integrity and credibility, I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.
During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue.
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At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission.
How big a secret was it? It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge. Her name, Valerie Plame, was no secret either, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who in America" entry.
A big question is her duties at Langley. I regret that I referred to her in my column as an "operative," a word I have lavished on hack politicians for more than 40 years. While the CIA refuses to publicly define her status, the official contact says she is "covered" -- working under the guise of another agency. However, an unofficial source at the Agency says she has been an analyst, not in covert operations.
Was Cheney even before the GJ at any point?
"I've learned a lot from this and from Hillary. I will never ever try to recall or recount a conversation unless I can remember it word for word (which is impossible with my memory). I'll just say I don't recall and go on my merry way."
Couldn't agree more. Many FReepers assert that Hillary has never accomplished anything. I disagree. That woman is a pro at obstructing justice and getting away with it.
please don't buy it, just print it out from you computer and do your business on it...
We have a winner! If you are ever in DC, I'll buy you a beer.
At no time was Wilson acting for the United States Government. He was acting for the DNC and a liberal 5th column inside of the CIA.
It's too "wild" to be accepted but in all honesty I wouldn't put it past the CIA. You articulated where my tin-foil hat lead me as well. CIA've been accused of crazier things, like dumping crack cocaine into the black community in the 1980's.
Clearly they've been a failure on the intelligence front. Something is extremely wrong at Langley.
Were the bogus docs classified at the time Wilson went to Niger?
I'm glad you said that twice.
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