Posted on 10/26/2005 8:44:06 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Leakgate prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has finally gotten around to asking Valerie Plame's neighbors if they had any idea that she worked at the CIA.
"FBI agents as recently as Monday night interviewed at least two people in her D.C. neighborhood," reports the Washington Post. "The agents were attempting to determine whether the neighbors knew that Plame worked for the CIA before she was unmasked with the help of senior Bush administration officials. Two neighbors said they told the FBI they had been surprised to learn she was a CIA operative."
While Plame's occupation may have surprised her two neighbors, others say the fact that she worked at the CIA was well known.
"That wasn't news to me," National Review Online's Cliff May reported way back in Sept. 2003. "I had been told that [Plame was CIA] - but not by anyone working in the White House. Rather, I learned it from someone who formerly worked in the government and he mentioned it in an offhand manner, leading me to infer it was something that insiders were well aware of."
The day his report appeared, May told the Fox News Channel's John Gibson: "I knew this, and a lot of other people knew it."
May explained: "Somebody else told it to me with a different spin. He said, 'Cliff, you've been too tough on Joe Wilson, accusing him of being a Bush basher and a leftwinger, because, you know, his wife works for the CIA. I mean, he's really not quite that bad.'
"So I think it may be something of an open secret," the NRO'er concluded.
Presumably, May's information would obviate the need for Leakgate probers to investigate whether anyone else knew that Plame was CIA. May says he did - and his sources should be able to confirm. Their accounts should be enough to persuasively contradict the myth that her supposed super-secret cover was blown by the White House.
Monday's investigative focus on Plame's neighbors, however, begs the question - why hasn't the allegedly dogged and thorough Fitzgerald followed obvious leads that tend to exonerate the White House and that have been in the public domain for two years?
What continually amazes me is the amount of information on the net that is solid but the MSM and "investigators" (like special prosecutes and the 9/11 commission) discount it.
Because they have been after Bush since the 2000 election. They won't stop there believe me. Even if Wilson is indicted along with is idiot wife the MSM will slam Bush on something else. And if there is nothing else there is always the good ole standby Iraq/Vietnam/Quagmire yada yada yada.
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Monday's investigative focus on Plame's neighbors, however, begs the question - why hasn't the allegedly dogged and thorough Fitzgerald followed obvious leads that tend to exonerate the White House and that have been in the public domain for two years?
These comments and questions have been hanging around this forum for a couple of years. You cannot avoid questioning the ability, credibility, honesty and just old fashioned competence of a Special Prosecutor who has failed to take such an obvious step until this late in the game.
Could it be Fitzgerald was looking for a prestigious spot for a while? A GJ Prosecutor. Not bad, huh? You see, I don't have much faith in Washington. What better way than to have a secure gig and have your name posted front page for years.
Whodda thunk she worked there, just because she walked into the CIA building at 9 and back out at 5 M-F.
I hope you are right my friend. Would that not be fun?
Freegards,
PresidentFelon
Please confirm that you serious and not just making fun of the MSM's use of confidential (and generally untruthful) sources.
But I think there will be no charges (not against Rove or Libby). Liberals are prepared to celebrate "Fitzmass Day" with champagne, but I think they will be cruelly disappointed.
If someone says they knew about Plame before anyone was talking about Joe Wilson, i.e. before either the Kristof or Pincus pieces, that would be better evidence.
typo: Martha Stewart will be the patron saint.
That would be a hoot!
She was covert like Jim McGreevey was in the closet.
Yes and no.. I have heard multiple people point out this specific act (I believe it is the Harris Act).. the 'confidential source' line, however, was a joke..
The men in gray suits are eating turtle soup.
I hope your sources are correct. This is getting very tiresome and we could use some good news.
PTLAPTA!!
old news
It was reported in July that most of their neighbors and friends knew she worked at CIA.
Plame was nothing more than a desk jockey at Langley...
name tag on her blouse, parking decal on her car...
she wasn't exactly "007" personnel! LMAO
http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20050715-121257-9887r.htm
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