Posted on 03/16/2006 10:06:59 AM PST by Sub-Driver
Tim Russert, N.Y. Times Subpoenaed In CIA Leak Case
POSTED: 12:47 pm EST March 16, 2006 UPDATED: 12:54 pm EST March 16, 2006 Email This Story | Print This Story WASHINGTON -- Lawyers for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby have subpoenaed The New York Times, former Times reporter Judith Miller and NBC correspondent Tim Russert for documents concerning the disclosure of an undercover CIA agent's identity, as the former White House aide's legal team prepares for his trial.
Libby, who was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, is charged with five counts of perjury, obstruction and lying to the FBI. Prosecutors contend he lied about how he learned of undercover officer Valerie Plame's CIA status.
A spokeswoman for the newspaper said Thursday that the subpoenas are for documents concerning the disclosure of Plame's identity.
NBC spokeswoman Barbara Levin confirmed Russert also received a subpoena. Libby told FBI agents and a federal grand jury that his information about Plame had come from Russert. But Russert has said they never discussed it.
Plame's CIA identity was revealed by conservative columnist Robert Novak in July 2003, eight days after Plame's husband, former U.S. Ambassador Joseph Wilson, alleged the Bush administration had twisted prewar intelligence on Iraq.
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>>NBC spokeswoman Barbara Levin confirmed Russert also received a subpoena. Libby told FBI agents and a federal grand jury that his information about Plame had come from Russert. But Russert has said they never discussed it.<<
Ohhh, Timmy-boy better hire an attorney. I hear the bent-one's available!
Go get 'em, Scooter!
SMILES!.............Makes my day...
Oops.
How very sweet.
My cheap garden hose, after years in the mud outside in the nursery, rotted over the winter and is now leaking........ more than once.
Same with the cheap, rotting New York Slimes, but one difference ............. they have been leaking much longer.
Oooh, I feel so bad for these reporters. </sarc>
Katie may hold off accepting CBS's offer, pending Tim taking a lengthy vacation in Levenworth.
WOO-HOO. Get him, Scooter.
"Plame's CIA identity was revealed by conservative columnist Robert Novak in July 2003..."
This crap drives me nuts. There has to be some way to stop this identification of conservative columnists every time one is written about, but never a liberal.
Well, well, well. Now the fit hits the shan.
Libby claimed Russert told him about Plame, but that's a memory lapse. It looks like it was Woodward.
If you want ON the Scooter Libby Ping List, please Freepmail me!
From DUCK SOUP:
"...I suggest that we give him 10 years in Levenworth or 11 years in Twelveworth."--Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho)
"I'll tell you what I'll do--I'll take five and 10 in Woolworth."--Chicolini (Chico)
If I am not mistaken the bent ones license was suspended. Has he got it back yet? :-)
Has BJ's law license been restored? Last I heard it was suspended.
Russert is a wily one.
Some releases say he didn't mention Valerie to Libby. Other of his releases give the wiggle room that he indeed do so, but not by the name "Plame."
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