Other FReepers may find their memories triggered if we take a look at some of these potential/real/demonstrable/close links of blood, politics, and social group for these various players.
Remember, it's not up to us to CENSOR anything at this point. It's up to the cockroaches to see the light and start to run and hide. We need not help them escape.
You did realize that when 9/11 happened there was an Inspector General at USPS who found herself booted out for a variety of antics, but she'd come from Department of Air Force OIG. That same organization served to supply OIGs and top level OIG staff all over Washington DC.
You'll find Plame, McCarthy, and others having their own string of relationships with the AF OIG.
No doubt this will all end up in the Executive Suite at the headquarters of the WarshPost.
Donald Graham Jr. will talk.
I’m not following anything you are saying about Valerie Plame or any connection you are making with Amerithrax. I think the interesting connection from the Plame matter is the leaking done by Scooter to Judy M. The NYT also received a leak in December 2001 about a planned search of BIF and GRF over which Fitzgerald was furious. Given they were after planning relating to development of biological weaopns, that’s the more direct link I see between leaking re Plame and Amerithrax.
Returning to the USA Today reporter, she’s now an assistant professor at a journalism, having completed a masters of law. She submitted a declaration in the matter explaining her extensive contacts with Dr. Hatfill’s attorney. I don’t recall her articles standing out as lacking balance. She emphasizes her contact with Attorney Connolly (Hatfill’s counsel) and the balance of her articles in her declaration as reason for the judge not to hold her in contempt.
The Stix article you link says:
“In an August 8 story, USA Today reporters Kevin Johnson and Toni Locy claimed that, “In Rhodesia, Hatfill lived near a school named Greendale,” without attributing the claim to ABC News.”
You are correct. The Greendale claim was factually mistaken (and a silly point besides). I believe former CIA analyst Stan Bedlington in an interview on ABC laid claim to having divined the (imagined) connection.
At her recent deposition, she tended to repeat this stock answer:
“I fully respect the court’s order. I do not remember the confidential sources who provided me with the information about Steven Hatfill. Refusing to answer is the only way for me to have an appeals court to decide whether I must reveal sources who may not have provided the information at issue in this case.
Accordingly, I respectfully refuse to answer that question.”
The names of her sources did not appear on a list of waivers.
I don’t know why it’s acceptable for her at the deposition to say she’s “just started reaching out to people” — that is, why it is acceptable she hadn’t been in contact with them to ask them if they would agree to release a promise of confidentiality. Although I didn’t read the memoranda of law, and don’t know the applicable law, if I were a District Judge and I saw this sort of game-playing, I might impose the fine to provide an incentive to her to make the phone calls. But if he does that, judging from her comments, she then will immediately appeal the decision. I don’t see why Hatfill would be entitled to compel sources re anthrax generally rather than about Hatfill specifically. (At the deposition, she and her counsel seem to be setting up that argument).
She said she hadn’t spoken to Dan Sekaily since her last deposition. The WP reporter AL emphasized to me today that the sources came forward voluntarily. I’m not following things closely enough to know how DS came to first be identified. Ed may know.