Posted on 11/18/2005 5:09:46 AM PST by Brilliant
The range of current and former administration officials who may have identified a CIA agent to the Washington Post's Bob Woodward narrowed as numerous officials denied...
Vice President Dick Cheney isn't believed to have talked to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald since last year, nor has he given a waiver to Mr. Woodward. That removes him as Mr. Woodward's source. Also ruled out are President Bush... and Dan Bartlett...
Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense for policy, said he didn't talk to Mr. Woodward about Mr. Wilson and his wife, as did Carl Ford Jr., former assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research. A spokesman for former CIA Director George Tenet and his former deputy, John McLaughlin, said neither provided that information...
A person speaking on behalf of former Secretary of State Colin Powell said he didn't share that information... and a National Security Council official eliminated Stephen Hadley, the head of the NSC, as a possibility. Spokesmen for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who was National Security Adviser at the time, and John Bolton, a former top State Department official and now U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, said neither was Mr. Woodward's source.
Marc Grossman, a former undersecretary of state...didn't respond to phone calls... A spokesman for Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, who remains under investigation in this case, said his client didn't discuss Ms. Plame with Mr. Woodward.
One official among those who knew of Ms. Plame's identify is former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. He was out of the country and hasn't responded to recent requests for comment on this subject...
The other two sources Mr. Fitzgerald asked Mr. Woodward about were Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff, and Mr. Libby. Mr. Woodward told Mr. Fitzgerald that he has no recollection...
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Conspicuous by his absence from the list of "I didn't talk to Woodward" people is...
...Joe Wilson.
Now that I think of it, it would be a real bombshell if it turned out to be Wilson, for more reason than one. Wilson suggested the other day that the Composte ought to investigate Woodward because he was writing articles critical of the investigation, and did not disclose that he had been involved in the scandal himself.
Joe Wilson is not an administration official and I think an official is who Bob Woodward said he had talked with.
"Joe Wilson is not an administration official"
It all depends on how one defines "is," "administration official," and "sex."
Is this any way to run the greatest antion on earth? Playing twenty questions? Yes, we are nuts.
Dick Clark was in the admin during that time......
Joe Wilson is not an administration official and was furious with Woodward yesterday for not coming out with this information sooner. He wanted the Washington Post to punish him in some way.
Novak said everyone will have a good laugh when he names his source.
Dick Clark would fit that description.
Bob Woodward would as well. Maybe Clark was Woodward's source and Woodward proceeded to blab the news around town. He stated he told Pincus.
We all know there are no secrets; once the word was out, it would have spread like wildfire.
Ari Fleischer?
Will someone please ask . . . Richard Clarke or Colin Powell? No, they won't because dollars to donuts the leaker was one of these two fine gentlemen.
I believe Powell has been ruled out.
Dang. While I don't have any animosity toward the guy, it would be poetic justice if HE were the ultimate leaker in all this stuff.
Since Joe Wilson has feelings of aspirations and delusions, perhaps he "thinks" he was a member of the administration.
Powell's spokesman denied it.
That caught my eye. Woodward said that the source is no longer with the government, I believe.
Joe Wilson as a retired ambassador is a "former adminstration official"
I'll bet it's a Democrat. Woodward obviously wrote his book with the help of the Dem's - claiming that Bush had a secret deal with the Saudi's to lower gas prices. Perhaps it's Deaniac.
Nope. Ambassadors don't qualify as "administration officials". I'm pretty sure I read that somewhere.
If Woodward has no recollection; how does he know it was an Andministration official?
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