[MizSterious]

This should be good. The 'Rats and MSM should be careful what they wish for--"discovery" can bite them on their backsides.

[HEY4QDEMS]

I've been waiting for this. All the members of Russert's staff knew who Plame was and he claims he didn't know.

Scooter's lawyers are going to be all over him like ugly on Helen Thomas.

[frankjr]

What is Fitz hiding? Cough up the docs, Patty!

[xcamel]

PaleoMedia

[Buffettfan]

The OSM (old stream media) is history. Rathergate will mark the turning point in history as we look back 20 years from now.

[FormerACLUmember]

Freeper Protest Warriors nail NBC antique media:

[colorado tanker]

This stuff is clearly Brady material that Fitzgerald is obligated to turn over. The fact that he won't indicates to me Fitz is hardly the "straight arrow" we've been led to believe. Plus his thoroughly unprofessional behavior at the infamous press conference.

[processing please hold]

Hot damn!! I hope their comeuppance is around the corner.

[alloysteel]

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was singled out as the person who identified Valerie Plame, renown and erstwhile spouse of Joseph C. Wilson IV, as an agent of the CIA. If she was covert, it was one of the most clumsily kept secrets in CIA, as her face and name were widely known among the media in the DC area, and she or her husband made no secret of the fact she was employed at CIA, in fact, he kind of bragged it up.

The "culture of corruption" existed at CIA long before the phrase became common currency among Dem'crat congresscritters and the wider world of the media rumorpeddlers.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

I remember some months ago after it came out that Bob Woodward had information on Flamer a discussion on Fox News and a prediction that Libby would seem discovery from reporters. This should be fun.

[the Real fifi]

ping

[ADemocratNoMore]

BTTT

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

This suspicion is made stronger by the fact that his colleague Andrea Mitchell said she did know Wilson’s wife worked at the CIA though she had no clear knowledge of her exact position. She, in fact, said it was “widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community” that Joe Wilson’s wife was at the CIA.

If it was “widely known” it would be natural to assume that once Wilson’s op-ed was published and the matter became the topic of the day, she’d have shared that with her boss, Russert, isn’t it? And her many efforts to distance herself from her earlier admission since then have only added to the suspicion that she did share this information with him and has not been forthcoming about how and when she came to know this, who else knew, and whether and when she shared that information with Russert.

She hasn’t even a consistent story about whether she was questioned by the Special Prosecutor about her “widely known” story. At one point she said she had spoken to investigators and yet later she denied having any contact with Fitzgerald’s office. Since the Special Prosecutor alleges in the indictment that Plame’s employment was not widely known and a major broadcasting figure said otherwise well before the issuance of the indictment, it would be fair to conclude the indictment statement could only be true if the Prosecution deliberately avoided pursuing the lead Andrea Mitchell threw out or that she somehow persuaded him that she hadn’t said what she clearly had… even though no one else seems to find her backstroke convincing.

Senior NBC correspondent Andrea Mitchell said Wednesday morning that she "messed up" when she told an interviewer in 2003 that Valerie Plame's CIA identity was "widely known."

Andrea Mitchell on Imus show: I 'Messed Up' on Leakgate Answer .

--snip--

IMUS: Well, then - why did you say you did, Andrea?

MITCHELL: Because, I messed up.

IMUS: Oh.

--snip--

IMUS: Did you ever have a discussion with Russert about it?

MITCHELL: Sure, after the fact.

IMUS: Oh.

I messed up..Andrea's boss...Tim Russert

,,,,,,,,,,, ,,Houston....I think we've got a problem

[devolve]

check out Russert's wife's shaky job - at Vanity Fair

[Grampa Dave]

I would not want to be any life insurance company with a big policy on any of these MSM bozos.

[Steve_Seattle]

Finally, Libby requests all subpoenas and agreements to limit the scope of documents or testimony by reporters. It is clear that there were such agreements. I have argued that they prevented a full exploration of the facts and made it more likely than not that the grand jury findings would be skewed. I think this request will be granted, and when it is many more members of the press will in Leggett’s words join the file of “mechanical ducks in the arcade.”

Not only do I love the mechanical-ducks-in-the-arcade image, I think Feldman makes a key point. Those agreements did indeed skew the findings by keeping from the grand jury much of what the journalists knew and when they knew it and who they knew it from. So far, I am VERY impressed by Libby's defense team. They are doing all the things I think they should be doing. In trying to get someone in the Bush administration via this idiotic investigation, the MSM has grabbed on to a tar baby.