Bob Woodward Torpedoes CIA Leak Case

National Ledger ^ | 11-22-05 | Jim Kouri - Commentary

[GloriaJane]

Ok, here's a what if. What if Bob Woodward and unknown source were really trying to put the investigation off of Libby for a different reason?

First we can figure that if Libby does go to trial that his lawyers will fight light crap to be able to call Plame and Wilson to the stand. If those two have to testify under oath that could make who ever else was involved in their little dirty deal vulnerable (kerry, kennedy, others in the kerry campaign?) should their name pop out in the testimony.

What if Bob Woodward and unknown source aren't really out to help the truth of the Plame outing come out but to hide the truth of who was behind Wilson and Plame?

Just wondering....

[HereInTheHeartland]

"oodward intimated that he thought nothing of this conversation because as far as he knew Plame was not a covert agent and that he felt the allegations by Wilson were not to be taken seriously."

Which means that many non-government people had common knowledge that she was employed by the CIA. Not a big deal to anyone since she wasn't covert. Like knowing that Ralph Johnson who commutes in to DC from Virginia; works in building maintenance for the CIA.

[SkyPilot]

"Stop telling the truth and start paying more attention to meeeee!"

[alarm rider]

So is Linsey Graham.

[leadhead]

My point about this is that Fitzgerald said Libby was at the beginning of the phone calls

I thought this all started when a reporter was going to hype Wilson's public position and Rove told him to be careful how far he went out on the limb because Wilson might not be what the reporter thought. It seems it started because Rove didn't want a reporter to make a fool of himself and then it all went to hell with the "punishment" crap.

But what do I know?

[Dilbert56]

It's Colin Powell. If Powell stopped short Woodward would pop out his throat.

[smoothsailing]

I'm sure Wells will. But Fitzhooey may not just roll over for Wells and we don't about the judge yet.

An early dismissal would be the proper end to this travesty, though.

[wtc911]

It was the bathroom attendent, I tell 'ya!

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Dave Dinkens?

[wtc911]

I think I'll put the Johnnie Walker Black away for the night......

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Better let me hold it.

[ez]

If Woodward uncovers the collusion between Plame, Wilson, and other CIA fellow travelers to damage Bush in time for the Kerry candidacy, he will be the most famous reporter ever.

[shhrubbery!]

Wilson at first denied his wife had anything to do with his mission, until a memo surfaced that showed she recommended his for the assignment.

Wilson is STILL denying "his wife had anything to do with his mission" --

Transcript, Larry King Live, Nov. 1 2005:

KING: Did your wife have anything to do with your making that trip?

WILSON: She did not and, in fact...two reporters, Newt Royce and Tim Phelps of "Newsday" actually called the CIA and the CIA said to them she had nothing to do with her husband's trip.

That is a breathtakingly brazen lie.

Whatever Royce or Phelps may have reported (Phelps is one of the Leftist journalists who "broke" the Anita Hill story), there is incontrovertible PROOF that Valerie Plame had everything to do with sending Wilson to Niger in the 2004 Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report on the U.S. Intelligence Committee's Pre-War Intelligence assessments on Iraq, starting on page 39...

...interviews and documents provided to the Committee indicate that [Wilson's] wife, a CPD [Counter Proliferation Division] employee, suggested his name for the trip.

...[Wilson's] wife told Committee staff that..she approached her husband on behalf of the CIA and told him "there's this crazy report" on a purported deal for Niger to see uranium to Iraq..."

....On February 19, 2002, CPD hosted a meeting with the former ambassador...an INR analyst's notes indicate that the meeting was "apparently convened by [Wilson's] wife who had the idea to dispatch [him] to use his contacts to sort out the Iraq-Niger issue."

Larry King did not challenge Wilson, even though proof of that lie has been publicly available for sixteen months.

[smoothsailing]

I said in the beginning of this that Libby should demand a trial and accept nothing less.That's the only way the public can learn the truth.Put everyone under oath and let Libby's lawyers make Plame,Wilson,the CIA, and all the reporters in Washington sing their guts out.

But the man has a family, so in all fairness, were he to accept a dismissal, I could understand.

[ironman]

If Woodward uncovers the collusion between Plame, Wilson, and other CIA fellow travelers to damage Bush in time for the Kerry candidacy, he will be the most famous reporter ever.

In late October, Woodward said, he "learned another piece of this puzzle," which prompted him to go into "incredibly aggressive reporting mode." He said he called the source and asked about their earlier conversation involving Plame, the wife of White House critic and former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/21/AR2005112101378.html

[Waco]

Well shiite Dan, looks like it's back to the ole Selectric.

[Paladin2]

"He's got some career-climbing to do, dontcha know."

Fitz don't know it yet, but there's a herd of Viking Kitties on the top of the ramparts to push the career ladder back from the wall, at the base of the ladder setting it on fire, in the kitchen boiling the oil, in the shop cutting a lenght of rail and in the barnyard rounding up a source of chicken feathers.

[IrishRainy]

Okay, but why would Woodward have any questions for Libby regarding Joe Wilson on June 23rd and 27th? At that point, supposedly nobody knew who this ambassador was...and it wasn't until early to mid July that his identity became known...officially at least.

[Ann Archy]

It's Karl Rove, not Carl.