[frankjr]

Bob Woodward has already said the CIA did an informal damage assessment and no damage was done. I believe the CIA has said there has been no formal damage assessment...which begs the question that if Plame was so covert then wouldn't the CIA rush to do a thorough assessment????

Oh, they probably want her employment records to verify she was a desk jockey.

[Peach]

Ping

[smoothsailing]

Good news.

There can no excuse for holding those records back.Scooter has a right to defend himself and Plames status is central to the case,IMO.

Fitzhooey should co-operate if justice means anything to him.

Bring it on!

[Chode]

hey Fitz... can you say, D-I-S-C-L-O-S-U-R-E??? i knew that you could!!!

[montomike]

Do you think that this will drag on until W pardons Scooter when he leaves the Oval Office?

Then we will see the wailing and the gnashing of progressive tooths!

[the Real fifi]

It's interesting that nowhere in the indictment does the Special Prosecutor even claim that Libby knew Plame's employment was classified. If he didn't what's his motive to deliberately lie about discussing her with reporters?

[The South Texan]

The media and their Rat friends are going to rue the day that they started pushing this. Sounds like Libby's lawyers are doing everything right to expose that this case is nothing but a media driven fraud.

[dirtboy]

The defense team for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby also asked that the court require Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald to turn over any informal assessments conducted by the CIA to determine whether the leak of Plame's identity in July 2003 damaged national security or agency operations.

Fitz is gonna rue the day that he claimed that Plame's CIA employment was classified and that her employer was not common knowledge.

[SuziQ]

This is a great example for the MS of "be careful what you wish for"!

[VOA]

Libby's Lawyers Seek Papers on Plame's CIA Employment

Libby will walk.
Unless Plame, her CIA bosses and lawyers watched "24" to learn how
to alter the work records of a counter-terrorism agent.

It's gonna' be fun if the real records get leaked and reveal her
to be a lame-to-average field agent...and a desk jockey for at least
five years before the Libby incident.

But of course, a CIA operative of conservative convictions would
have too much moral fiber to engage in an illegal leak concerning
national security. Hence, we won't see the records.

[newnhdad]

I'm still trying to figure out why this guy or anyone should get prosecuted for having a bad memory?
It's not like he stole and destroyed top secret documents implicating an ex-president's culpability in 9/11?

I hope they get enough information made public to show that she was just a disgruntled civil servant and her husband was a reckless unemployed jerk.

Fitzgerald asked for this, now he has to deal with it.

[p23185]

Bob Woodward has already said the CIA did an informal damage assessment and no damage was done. I believe the CIA has said there has been no formal damage assessment...which begs the question that if Plame was so covert then wouldn't the CIA rush to do a thorough assessment????

I heard on that very reliable news source, Randi Rhodes show, that an assessment had been completed and they have positively identified operatives that have been killed due to Plame's identity being divulged!! Wackos, every one of them.

[Enchante]

Libby's lawyers should also zero in (I expect they are doing so if legally feasible) on Joe Wilson's interactions with the NY Slimes editors, WaPo morons, etc. in the 2-3 months BEFORE Novak's column. We all know that Joe was chatting up Kristof at least as early as May 3, 2003 and it has been indicated that Valerie Pflame was present at that breakfast and at the "Senate Democratic Policy Council" meetings around May 2. Libby's lawyers should insist upon deposing Kristof, all relevant NY Slimes and WaPo editors, and anyone else who may have been told by Joe before mid-July 2003 anything at all about Valerie's role at the CIA.

[STARWISE]

Music to my ears .. this is the road to the highway, where the rubber meets the road ... go get 'em, Scooter!

[woofie]

Was this the thing Bush was supposed to get impeached over before the current thing or was it some other impeachable thing?