The President didn't say that, I did.
" It never pays to try to make friends with a snake."
That is a certainty! ;)
Posted on 11/16/2005 11:07:47 AM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - Vice President Cheney's former top aide, indicted last month on perjury and obstruction charges, reviewed documents Wednesday at a federal courthouse.
Accompanied by his legal team, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby walked into the courthouse without the crutches that he'd been using during a court appearance two weeks ago when he pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the CIA leak investigation.
Libby's visit to the courthouse came hours after The Washington Post reported that at least one senior Bush administration official — who was not identified — told editor Bob Woodward about CIA operative Valerie Plame about a month before her identity was publicly exposed.
The newspaper reported that Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating the leak of Plame's identity, that the official talked to him about Plame in mid-June 2003. Woodward and editors at the Post refused to identify the official to reporters other than to say it was not Libby.
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Karl Rove's legal team, said Rove was not the official who talked to Woodward. Rove is a top deputy to President Bush and was referred to, but not by name, in Libby's indictment, as having discussed Plame's identity with reporters.
Libby was indicted last month on one charge of obstruction of justice and two counts each of false statement and perjury in connection with Fitzgerald's investigation.
Plame's husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, had criticized U.S. intelligence efforts before the Iraq war. On June 23, Libby told New York Times reporter Judith Miller that Wilson's wife might work at the CIA. Robert Novak, in a column published July 14, identified Plame, as a CIA operative.
Woodward's testimony in a two-hour deposition Monday would mean that another White House official told a reporter about Plame before Libby revealed her identity to Miller. A spokesman for White House adviser Karl Rove told the Post that Rove did not discuss Plame with Woodward.
William Jeffress Jr., one of Libby's lawyers, told the Post that Woodward's testimony raises questions about his client's indictment. "Will Mr. Fitzgerald now say he was wrong to say on TV that Scooter Libby was the first official to give this information to a reporter?" Jeffress said.
Woodward, famous for his investigation with Carl Bernstein of the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration, is now assistant managing editor of the Post. In October, he was dismissive of the outing of Plame, telling CNN's Larry King that the damage from her exposure was "quite minimal."
Meantime, The Associated Press on Wednesday joined other news organizations in asking U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton to deny a court motion by Fitzgerald for a blanket protective order keeping all pretrial evidence in Libby's case out of public view.
The special prosecutor is seeking a court order that would prohibit Libby and his legal team from publicly disclosing "all materials produced by the government."
Not perjury. Making false statements. Quite different.
Woodward's source wasn't Rove, either.
It was a copy of the indictment. The Rat Senator was trying to say the indictment proved Bush lied about the war and Woodward banged back that a load of crap and you need to red the indictment. Slammed him pretty good.
Is that the real Libby issue? Libby is not in trouble for leaking the name. My understanding of the charges is there was no underlying crime of releasing the name.
Libby's case is only about Libby not telling the truth of what he knew to the grand jury.
yes, the last sentence of this article is unreal.
Bob Woodward is no dummy.
He sees what a few others, namely Victoria Toensing, see:
1. The CIA is the agency that promised a "slam dunk" with the intelligence.
2. The CIA has been the agency that has been leaking like a sieve on "bad intelligence".
3. Plame, a CIA WMD specialist, is the one who got Wilson to go to Niger TO REFUTE THE 16 WORDS AND MAKE BUSH LOOK WORSE.
4. Why was the CIA not coming forward with the evidence that SUPPORTED their intelligence on WMDs?
IMO, some rogue elements in the CIA are fighting a war against Bush. Woodward recognizes this. And Woodward recognizes the big picture.
that Larry King show on the night of the Libby indictment, I believe Woodward was talking down Sen Dodd - makes alot of sense now.
No it was Dodd. Quite the arrogant jerk he was; until Woodward showed him that piece of paper.
Joe DiGenova today on John Gibson's show said by not knowing about Woodward Fitzgerald made a huge error and should have no recourse but drop charges against Libby -- he gave the statutes involved; said with the horrible presser Fitz did and then this it really makes Fitz look like he was just out to indict someone.... anyone.
What happens when you pick and choose who you want to talk to and who you don't -- how about Andrea Mitchell? She's said it was common knowledge who Plame was and everyone in Washington knew... which is why Woodward didn't think it was worth a second thought when he WAS told... why didn't Fitz talk to Mitchell and others who had another side of the story?
It is pathetic, indeed.... and when they try to fight back it's like a cat trying to get out of a paper sack.... a lot of noise and not much action.
Crossed my mind. He told Cheney.
I liked that Woodward was prepared... the GOP could take a few lessons.. BTW, I think a lot of people are confusing Woodwards politics with Carl Bernsteins -- a rabid Democrat...
Read my post here #73 -- De Genova explained why this case has to be sacked now.
If you are a Republican (some exceptions for RINOs) you get indicted. If you're a lib you get whitewashed, spin dried and hailed as a hero.
The President didn't say that, I did.
" It never pays to try to make friends with a snake."
That is a certainty! ;)
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