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CIA leak investigators hold last-minute interviews
ABC News ^ | oct. 25, 2005 | Adam Entous

Posted on 10/25/2005 6:18:58 PM PDT by blogblogginaway

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - With charges expected as early as Wednesday, federal officials investigating the exposure of CIA operative Valerie Plame conducted last-minute interviews with her neighbors and associates of Karl Rove and other top White House aides, lawyers said on Tuesday.

Marc Lefkowitz, who lives across the street from Plame, told Reuters two FBI agents asked him on Monday if he knew about Plame's CIA work before her identity was leaked to the press in 2003. Lefkowitz said he told them: "I didn't know."

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cialeak; cialeakplame; lefkowitz; marclefkowitz
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1 posted on 10/25/2005 6:18:59 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
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To: blogblogginaway
Hmmm. Apparantly he never bothered to check out the parking lot sticker on her car.

Or, alternatively, he's simply part of the cover.

Anyone know anything about this guy?

2 posted on 10/25/2005 6:22:07 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: blogblogginaway

This is very worrying because it shows Fitzgerald is not up to par.

Reporters like Andrea Mitchell have said that reporters in washington knew Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.


If Fitzgerald hasn't figured that out yet then he doesn't have his eye on the ball.


3 posted on 10/25/2005 6:22:35 PM PDT by johnmecainrino
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To: blogblogginaway

And how long had this neighbor lived across the street from her? Had he ever spoken to her or her lying hubby? Had he even met them?

Inquiring minds want to know.....


4 posted on 10/25/2005 6:24:30 PM PDT by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: blogblogginaway

If this report is true (and I have my doubts), then it would be an outrageous admission of incompetence on the part of the Fitzgerald investigation. This basic inquiry could have (and should have) been conducted on Day 1.

On the other hand, it is conceivable that this fellow is lying on behalf of his neighbors, with whom he may be friends. It is, of course, not a crime to lie to ABC news, and so would not represent any exposure to criminal charges (ie, would be no skin off his nose just to make this stuff up).

The leaks are coming fast and furious tonight, and this one smells very funny. If this guy is lying for Wilson/Plame, then it might indicate trouble for that dynamic duo (wishful thinking alert).


5 posted on 10/25/2005 6:24:56 PM PDT by neuroconservative (http://neuro-conservative.blogspot.com)
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There are a number of fellows named Marc Lefkowitz, but one of them was among the top givers at the San Fran AIDS walk.

Is this guy perhaps a left-wing lobbyist of some kind?

6 posted on 10/25/2005 6:28:56 PM PDT by muawiyah (/ hey coach do I gotta' put in that "/sarcasm " thing again? How'bout a double sarcasm for this one)
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To: neuroconservative

It is disturbing simply because it shows he is still investigating the supposed leak, not the supposed perjury.


7 posted on 10/25/2005 6:29:35 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: blogblogginaway
Marc Lefkowitz, who lives across the street from Plame, told Reuters two FBI agents asked him on Monday if he knew about Plame's CIA work before her identity was leaked to the press in 2003. Lefkowitz said he told them: "I didn't know."

It's just the lefty MSM trying to make a point about how "dangerous" it was to out a desk jockey at CIA Langley. Even her neighbor didn't know she drove to Langley everyday - deep cover.

8 posted on 10/25/2005 6:29:37 PM PDT by p23185
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To: neuroconservative

leak-fest. this inquiry is (you should pardon the expression) bush league.


9 posted on 10/25/2005 6:29:57 PM PDT by fantom
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To: Jrabbit

Joe Wilson and his wife were part of the Washington social scene. Reporters knew she worked for the CIA.

Didn't Wilson also identify his wife in some who's who book.

That was the book CNN was about to ask Novak about before he was kicked off CNN.


10 posted on 10/25/2005 6:30:30 PM PDT by johnmecainrino
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To: blogblogginaway

to be honest, the way this prosecutor seems to be acting - this neighbor gave the smartest answer he could "I don't know anything". that's what I would say too.


11 posted on 10/25/2005 6:30:43 PM PDT by oceanview
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To: johnmecainrino

"Reporters like Andrea Mitchell have said that reporters in washington knew Wilson's wife worked for the CIA."

Watch the ball:

"if he knew about Plame's CIA work"

Yeah, but did he know she works at the CIA, not knowing what she specifically does there?

That's a distinction in this case.

Along with "identifying" her as "wife" or by name.


12 posted on 10/25/2005 6:31:25 PM PDT by Shermy
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To: blogblogginaway

This event plus the WP story about new doubts concerning J. Wilson make me think something has created a problem for the special prosecutor. Since this should have been previously investigated, it sounds like something new has emerged that is causing second guessing by SP's office.


13 posted on 10/25/2005 6:31:50 PM PDT by conservativepoet
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To: blogblogginaway
Why is ABC still speculating? I thought they said at the fishing expedition, I mean, press conference that they had "double-sourced" info that Libby was already indicted.

[Nevermind that they had to pull that claim right away.]

14 posted on 10/25/2005 6:31:52 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: muawiyah; blogblogginaway

It sounds like old information. This a redeux of October 2004.the press is now dumping.


15 posted on 10/25/2005 6:33:32 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: johnmecainrino

East, think about what I just posted. Why would fitz be talking to the neighbor???


16 posted on 10/25/2005 6:34:27 PM PDT by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: neuroconservative
On the other hand, it is conceivable that this fellow is lying on behalf of his neighbors fellow liberals...
17 posted on 10/25/2005 6:35:29 PM PDT by Diddle E. Squat (SonofaBuckner Qualls and Lidge, king and queen of Choke City, USA)
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To: muawiyah
Anyone know anything about this guy?

LEFTkowitz?? Sounds certifiably Liberal to me.

18 posted on 10/25/2005 6:35:52 PM PDT by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: johnmecainrino
Who said there's any truth to this...
19 posted on 10/25/2005 6:36:12 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude Adjustments Offered Here Free of Charge)
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To: Perdogg

he was trying to determine whether Plame's identity was "common knowledge" amongst people she might have come in contact with - like her next door neighbor.


20 posted on 10/25/2005 6:36:23 PM PDT by oceanview
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