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To: lepton
I'd like to see that. Because it is a direct contradiction of what I heard him say.

I'll look for what I heard from his mouth, but the following is from the statement from NBC about Russert speaking to the OSC:

"During the interview, Mr. Russert was asked limited questions by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald about a telephone conversation initiated by Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's Chief of Staff, in early July of last year. Mr. Russert told the Special Prosecutor that, at the time of that conversation, he did not know Ms. Plame's name or that she was a CIA operative and that he did not provide that information to Mr. Libby. Mr. Russert said that he first learned Ms. Plame's name and her role at the CIA when he read a column written by Robert Novak later that month."

If what you describe from Special Report is accurate, somebody's lyin'...

59 posted on 10/26/2005 2:38:53 PM PDT by lugsoul
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To: lugsoul

Hmmm. This seems like more of the dance about whether Joe Wilson's Wife means Plame. I don't recall Russert saying Plame, just as Rove and Libby claim not to have said Plame.


60 posted on 10/26/2005 2:45:29 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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