Pincus: Woodward 'Asked Me to Keep Him Out' of Plame Reporting

editor and publisher. ^ | 11/16/05 | Joe Strupp

[Wolfstar]

I couldn't live with myself if didn't at least mow someones yard, once for $1 Million a year.

Fitzgerald has multiple cases going in DC, Chicago and elsewhere. He probably has some deputy or deputies handling the day-to-day grunt work. It's pretty easy to kill two years worth of time when no one is holding you accountable.

[Alas Babylon!]

I might also point out than Ann Pincus was an official in the Clinton State Department......Bureau of Intelligence and Research.

Yes, and did you know what the State Dept's Bureau of I & R does? Why WMD anaylsis, of course. Which incidently, was the same job Valerie Plame did for the CIA!!!

But Pincus didn't know Plame was CIA???????

[PhiKapMom]

I get this feeling we are all going to enjoy watching the RATs and their sidekicks in the media trying to run away from this one now that their plan is starting to backfire. I love seeing Pincus on the hot seat and now Woodward had to testify.

[mattdono]

Fair enough. I will check that out. But, I just wanted to be clear that it was Walter Pincus that said he was surprised.

That is quite odd that Pincus would be shocked to learn Joe Wilson's wife's name from a Novak column, when Pincus was at a BBQ only 10 days before Novak's "shocking" revelation.

I guess these people think that they can say anything and everyone will believe it.

Not anymore. See the badge. At least some of us aren't going to take it anymore.

[nopardons]

Not only Joe, but Victoria, Joe's wife, law partner, and the person who wrote the law about "outing" covert agents, was on and blew Fitzy apart.

Pinko Pincus is Wilson's "pal"...never forget that.

[Cautor]

"Pinko Pincus is Wilson's "pal"...never forget that."

I never will. The Pinkos family and the Plameouts even hold family cookouts together. Pincus needs to be put on the stand and grilled til he's well done. Woodward too holds out all this time and where' the obstruction charge? Fitz is done.

[Reagan Man]

From Bob Novak.

'Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing. As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July to confirm Mrs. Wilson's involvement in the mission for her husband -- he is a former Clinton administration official -- they asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operator, and not in charge of undercover operatives'...

[Texas Songwriter]

Is this a request to suborn perjury?

Is this a case of perjury? How else do you read this?

[nopardons]

Dems truly believe that we are stupid. Of course Pinko Pincus thinks that we'll believe anything he decides to say.

[nopardons]

Exactly !

And this really makes Fitzy look like an inept, bumbling idiot. Look at how much info WE know and just how little he and his team gathered in two years. What the bloody hell were they doing...navel gazing?

[Carling]

Fitzgerald is obviously inept. He suffers from tunnel vision and apparently takes his investigation in the direction that the MSM was reporting it.

There is simply no excuse for this oversight. It is clear that he took the words of reporters at face value while digging for anything against an administration official.

It's gutterball prosecution and I think he should be investigated.

[msnimje]

When did Woodward say he spoke to Andy Card? In his statement issued today, the only Administration official he identified was Libby

His editor said that today on Wolf Blitzer's show. It will be in the paper tomorrow.

[cubreporter]

Ha,ha. I KNEW SOMEONE would pick up on it. Did you know there is a Festivus book out? Soft cover. Bought mine in Barnes. Forward by "George" and it's great!!!

[msnimje]

The question is does he have the ethics ?

Probably not because of his unethical statement during his press conference stating a covert agent was outed (whatever language he used) when he had no such proof.

[Texas Songwriter]

Fitzgerald, or whoever is pulling his strings, has got to be very pissed off about this revelation. Fitgerald's currency just went down by facto of 10. It demonstrates he did an incomplete and shoddy examination of witnesses. Remember how on the day before the indictiment, Fitzgerald sent FBI agents to Plames neighborhood and asked a few neighbors if they knew she worked at CIA? What was that for,...but public consumption? He was showboating doing that. It was supposed to convince the public he was leaving no stone unturned. Except he left off principals like Woodward, Pincus, Corn. By the way, why is the sworn statement of Russert more credible than Libby? Is Russert the beasureing stick whereby others testify. The worn is slowly turning, I hope.

[sageb1]

I have not followed this story as well as most of you. Can anyone tell me if these two are related?

PINCUS LIONEL I

PINCUS WALTER H

[Texas Songwriter]

How will Matthews run from it? He has predicated his entire public life on this one issue.

[PhiKapMom]

Thanks for putting that quote up -- this is getting more fun by the hour to watch this fall apart.

[Carling]

This also tells me that Fitz rushed an indictment on Libby.

Amateur hour. This guy is a clown.

[PhiKapMom]

LOL!!! Matthews is going to be going around with egg all over his face along with zero credibility which he so richly deserves. I would love to see the scumbag called to testify. He has banked everything on getting Rove -- this ia making my evening!