Posted on 03/02/2006 5:52:10 PM PST by STARWISE
In a filing Thursday at U.S. District Court in the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby CIA/Leak case, Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald -- in a 19-page affidavit -- offered few clues about the identity of the official or officials involved in the leak of former CIA employee, Valerie Wilson Plame's name to reporters, other than Libby himself.
Libby, a former top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, was indicted last year on charges that he lied about how he learned Plame’s identity and when he told reporters.
The affidavit does not unravel the mystery of who Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward's "official" source was. Woodward revealed last year that on June 27, 2003 he had conversations with Libby as well as another un-named government official with whom he spoke about Plame, the wife of former Ambassador Joe Wilson.
The official's identity has been the subject of intense interest and speculation since columnist Robert Novak published Plame's name in July 2003 -- eight days after her husband, Joseph Wilson, accused the administration of twisting intelligence to justify going to war with Iraq.
One paragraph in Thursday’s filing indicates that the un-named official spoke both with Woodward and Novak, "Libby has been given a redacted transcript of the conversation between Woodward and [redacted] and Novak has published an account briefly describing the conversation with his first confidential source [redacted]."
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
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"The purpose of the affidavit was to describe with specificity the items not being produced to the Scooter Libby defense team. Libby's lawyers had requested that Judge Reggie Walton provide them with the identity of "Official 1," but Fitzgerald has stated that it is still grand jury material and therefore secret."
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I'm wondering how Keith Olbermann's deducing from this that the finger points to Karl Rove .. as he said a few moments ago?
Bttt
This is so going to bite them on the butt.
You mean, the hypocritical liberals in the media don't quite believe that leaking operational details of a war is worthy of consideration? No information on the secret prison leak? No information on the brave little patriot who leaked that Al Qaeda's calls were being monitored?
I didn't think so. Why anyone expects objectivity from these fanatics is beyond me.
A check of the redactions points to Armitage, but please note msnbc is wrong on the facts--Libby is not charged with leaking Plame's name to anyone..Russert said the information never came up in his conversation with Libby and Cooper says Libby said only "I heard that, too."
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Ping.
Justice Ginsburg is that you?
When it turns out to be Colin Powell the media will drop it. He's their saint, always willing to leak information about rifts in the Administration.
This is BS by Fitzgerald. "Gee, I don't know of anyone who leaked Plame's identity besides Libby." And obvious crock. Fitzgerald had better start telling the truth.
Make that an obvious crock.
Maybe this investigation is one that fits the Rockefeller memo profile and actually serves another purpose.
This will die down
Because Keith Olbermann is a liar and the last person who would know anything about it. He just makes up crap for his lefty moonbat freaks from DU who are probably the only people watching his entire show.
Good Lord. If this issue gets any closer to dead, how would we know. The History Channel has rerun the entire Normandy invasion four times since any news came from this "trial".
Can anyone give me a source for the total cost of this investigation? I need it quickly as I am debating it with a liberal. Thanks.
This whole fracas is just the dumbest. story. ever.
Nothing about it, even if the wildest speculations were all true, matters in the least.
I'm wondering how Keith Olbermann's deducing from this that the finger points to Karl Rove
Because the brain damage of a typical reporter can not understand how these two statements are mutually exclusive.
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