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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 .

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

MITCHELL: Because, I messed up.

IMUS: Oh.

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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

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