Woodward Was Told of Plame More Than Two Years Ago

Washington Post ^ | November 15, 20005 | Jim VandeHei and Carol D. Leonnig

[atomicweeder]

Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed . . .

[atomicweeder]

It just got confusing and interesting.

[Mears]

Why am I finding this entire thing incredibly boring?

[aft_lizard]

Adult Attention Deficit Disorder?

[REDWOOD99]

The source was Bill Casey, right?

[bybybill]

The only one left to stick his nose into this mess is Jessie Jackson

[cricket]

Would like to see transcripts of BW's interviews during this time.

I am sure he chose to feed the tiger in Washington as per Lib agenda - than fight it - as per good journalism should have required him.

[Raycpa]

It seems everyone knew except Rove.

[penelopesire]

It is not confusing..It is called CHECK MATE! LOL..Let's get this stuff out in the open..Libby is innocent and Woodward has enough sense in his old age to figure out who is gonna lose this 'battle' and it is the lefty media and the loser dems!

[jwalsh07]

When does Fitzgerald interview General Vallely who has stated unequivocally that Joe Wilson told him his wife worked at CIA before any of this balogna hit the fan?

[billhilly]

I knew.

[Lancey Howard]

Woodward said he also testified that he met with Libby on June 27, 2003, and discussed Iraq policy as part of his research for a book on President Bush's march to war. He said he does not believe Libby said anything about Plame.

The "official" is not Libby.

[Marine_Uncle]

Can't trust the compost heap any more. Let it settle out to the real facts eventually. Until it is headlined in all L/MSM as a proven fact. I'll wait out any discussions.

[Raycpa]

Statement by Woodward

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/plame/woodward.plameCIA.pdf

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[Keith in Iowa]

>>>...a senior administration official...

That could be the lead-person of the gardeners...or anyone else...

[Lancey Howard]

Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the investigation.

It was the "official" who brought the conversation to Fitzgerald's attention, ie., this is not something that Woodward revealed on his own, nor something that Fitz dug up on his own.

[BurbankErnie]

This whole mess will be thrown out before Fitzmas, er, I mean Christmas.
Fitz F'd up big time. 2 years and this is now revealed. What a joke.

[Dolphy]

Pincus said he does not recall Woodward telling him that. In an interview, Pincus said he cannot imagine he would have forgotten such a conversation around the same time he was writing about Wilson.

So Pincus is now questioning Woodward. Pincus testified before the grand jury, didn't he? It doesn't sound like he told the story Woodward told...what a tangled mess of lies.

[stylin19a]

In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.

no law broken...now what ?