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Marc Grossman has gone into private life to become Vice-Chair of "The Cohen Group" ..... a bi-partisan international consulting group founded by none other than Bill Clinton's last Secretary of Defense, Bill Cohen:

http://www.cohengroup.net/team-wsc.html

That by itself doesn't prove anything, of course, and Cohen is a RINO not a Dem (arguably RINOs are worse!!), but for one of the chief media hit-men against Libby and the WH to end up in a prominent (presumably very lucrative) position under one of the men most responsible for the international policies of the PREVIOUS administration..... well, there's more than a bit of an odor about that, don't you think?

All of the links I am looking at suggest that at the very least Grossman was an active agent in furthering the asinine "revenge plot" story in the media and with the prosecutor. He is also a crucial, perhaps THE crucial witness for Fitzgerald claiming to have told Libby sensitive info about the oh-so-secret Valerie Pflame.

Libby's defense team seems to be hitting this point hard in a recent court filing, arguing that they need a lot more info from and about Grossman and others at State because Libby says he has no recollection of Grossman telling him anything about Pflame. Of course, even if it were so it does not have the significance that the prosecutor has attributed because the whole case is so bogus, but right now it's Libby's word vs. Grossman's..... so if Grossman does turn out to be any kind of buddy of Joe Wilson, and/or does turn out to have orchestrated any of this garbage behind the scenes, then the case should be thrown out and Grossman and Wilson should be prosecuted instead.

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Marc Grossman is also an excellent candidate for the unnamed senior State Dept. official who, by Wilson's own account (in first Vanity Fair article) urged Wilson to pour oil on the embers of the early controversy (May - July 2003) about WMDs and the SOU address. Was Grossman the one who urged Wilson to go public? My best guess at this time was that it was either Grossman or his immediate superior, Armitage. Both are now known to hate people in the WH and to have worked hard to block Bush initiatives in foreign policy.

[VANITY FAIR}: "Wilson immediately called a couple of people in the government, whose identities he will not divulge—”They are close to certain people in the administration,” he says—and warned them that if Rice would not correct the record he would. One of them, he says, told him to write the story. So at the beginning of July he sat down to write “What I Didn’t Find in Africa.”