And, Fitzgerald's report doesn't point out that the ONLY proper response from Libby to Russert's question was to deny he knew that, because if he confirmed it, then he WOULD be guilty of divulging classified information!
So if I know it, but you don't KNOW that I know it........
Note: Andrea Mitchell is Alan Greenspan's wife.
Joe Wilson on Larry King,
"Now, I'm prepared to think the worst of Karl Rove ever since he told Chris Matthews that my wife was fair game. And that's tough for me because Karl and I go to the same church. We go to different services, we go to the same church. I know his wife's name because we get a church newsletter. So, why he wouldn't know my wife's name, perhaps he doesn't read the newsletter."
I believe there are also reporters and other inside the beltway politicians that go to this church.
If it's Libby's word vs. Russert's, then why did they not indict Russert?
R-U-S-S-E-R-T
P-I-N-G!
The Grand Jury indictment prepared by Mr Fitzmas specifies that Valerie Plame's employment by the CIA was classified "Secret" until July 14, 2003 (date of Novak's column).
So anyone who knew it or talked about it before then.......
Except for the thousands of people in Washington DC and in State Department and its embassies all over the world... who may be considered part of the "intelligence community" of course....(which does NOT include no-clearance Joe Wilson, who has screwed his own pooch by bragging that he shared his poor wronged wife's identity with the Kerry campaign before Novak's story broke....ha ha ha)...
broke the law.
What a joke.
As potentially important as this info is,it would be useless to present it to a DC jury.If this matter goes to trial and the trial is held in DC,Libby doesn't have a prayer.
Does Libby have to say "that's classified"? to Tim? Of course not. That's just like saying: "Valerie is an agent for the CIA just as you've indicated. I know it and you know it. My question is (by Libby) How did you know it Tim?
This whole Plamegate is a total waste of taxpayers' money and time.
Any "beat cop" in America could have determined in a day that Plame WAS NOT A COVER AGENT.
next case...
Instead, Fitzgerald fattens his personal bank account at taxpayers' expense for two years chasing his tail and all he has to show for it is a lame indictment for lying about a so called "crime" that wasn't a crime in the first place!
and they say this clown Fitzgerald is some kind of legal genius...yea right...he's like the rest of the clowns in DC...getting fat at taxpayers' expense!!!
Libby has issues, I won't deny that (mostly regarding his notes).
But the idea that these media witnesses told the truth when they all claimed not to know who Wilson's wife was, is laughable. they all knew.
BTW, it's actually too bad (for the country, not for Libby) that this thing probably will never go to trial.
Russert, Plame, Wilson, Mitchell, Miller, Cooper and slews of others need to be subjected to stringent cross-examination so that the truth can come out.
Find a way to find the law firm Libbey is using and send your analysis to them.
Nice to see the MSM might be getting some of their own thrown back at them! Rathergate, Mapegate, and NOW Russertgate!
Pray for W and Our Troops
If this goes to trial, part of Libby's defense should be to undermine the MOTIVE for lying by undermining the spin that the WH was trying to punish Wilson for telling the truth. This would involve calling Wilson and members of the Kerry campaign to the witness stand, and introducing as evidence the Senate Intelligence Committee's findings that Wilson had misrepresented virtually everything about his trip and the WH response to it. A trial - if anything - might finally get the real facts out to a wider public, and expose Wilson as the real liar and the real hit-man.
HA!!
Is Andrea finding it *sport* or trendy questioning the validity of the Russert sot?
Questions, so many questions. :o)
Man-oh-man would I relish [seeing] the bloated Russert's head on a pike.
...*&* going the way of Danny "Boy" Rather. :o)
Timmy and the other liars of the MSM, who testified at this witch hunt for Rove could be in a lot of trouble re perjury in upcoming criminal cases and financial trouble in civil cases.