Posted on 10/26/2005 6:02:43 AM PDT by Brilliant
WASHINGTON — Prosecutors investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity returned their attention to White House advisor Karl Rove on Tuesday, questioning a former West Wing colleague about contacts Rove had with reporters in the days leading to the naming of the covert operative.
Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald also dispatched FBI agents this week to the CIA officer's neighborhood in Washington, asking neighbors whether they had been aware — before her name appeared in a syndicated column — that the operative, Valerie Plame, worked for the CIA...
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How can a neighbor not know where she worked, regardless of her job title, if you live next door to someone for years, see their car and, if this decal is on there, not know where they work?
That's precisely what it is, you're dead on.
Maybe he's setting a perjury trap for the neighbors. :-)
Don't forget the ever-so-popular time-tested phrase, "Trying to undo an election". That also is what is happening.
A guess: In his sit down with Fitzgerald, Luskin says, "Aw, c'mon, Pat. Everybody knew she worked at CIA. We've even been told by her neighbors that it was common knowledge. Don't you read the papers?"
And, in response, Pat goes off to see who may have told Luskin that they knew she worked at the CIA. Even though they've already interviewed the neighborhood. Because he doesn't want to watch some presser down the road where Luskin is saying "I told the prosecutor before he ever indicted by client that her job at CIA was common knowledge among her friends and neighbors, but he wouldn't listen." Perhaps it is the same folks who supposedly told the WaTimes that they knew. But, for some reason, those folks aren't talkin' to or aren't being quoted in the papers, if they are telling someone that they knew.
I don't know where my neighbors work, but I'm sure someone does. I hope he is not focusing entirely on the neighbors. Ask their friends whether they knew.
Yeah ... she was sitting at a hidden desk in an abandoned warehouse in Langley for five years, forging "yellowcake" documents, until Robert Novak came along and decided to aid her, her husband Joe, and the CIA, in pulling a coup on the President by outing her.
Did Joe and Valerie have a secret wedding. Is their marriage certificate "classified".
Don't forget too that in those five years she was at Langley she gave birth to twin boys. She must really be a superwoman if she could manage to fit in secret agent espionage in between diaper changes and feedings.
There are several issues that could be under examination. Was there a cover-up? More provacatively, who forged the Niger documents and who knew that they were forged?
Wow. This even *looks* like they are just guessing.
I wonder who the father was. ;)
Gee.....I kind of remember comments like that here back in 1998.....but, at the time, nobody objected, including me.
Well, you'd also have to prove that they aren't just idiots that didn't know everyone knew. As we found out during the Clintont years, proving someone is not an idiot can be difficult (See Hillary and WH Travel Office firings).
The CIA front company the woman supposedly worked for has been reported to be an empty office, which indicates she wasn't there but AT the CIA itself.
First you ask them if they knew she worked for the CIA. If they say "yes," then you ask them how they found out. If they say, "Joe and Valerie told me," then Joe and Valerie better not have told the grand jury that it was a secret.
Tim Russert is one name of someone who said he knew Plame worked for the CIA before Novak reported it. One of the people on Brit Hume's panel said so as well when this broke.
As an aside, the Demo/Commies in Connecticut were salivating at the prospect of getting former governor Rowland to resign, only to get kicked in the teeth by his Republican (RINO) replacement Jodi Rell, who has a sky-high approval rating, with a probable lock on the governor's office in the next election...
The left do not care who it is .. as long it is Bush Admin. They will not stop at Rove or Libby. They want Bush and Cheney. The left is so fired up that they are in a Chrissy Matthews..... to see this to the end.
On DU... their new Goebbelism is 'Fitzmas'.
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