Washington Post fact-checker gives Plame three Pinocchios for Libby claim

The Hill ^ | 09/10/19 | Rebecca Klar

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The Washington Post "Fact Checker" column gave former CIA operative and current Democratic New Mexico congressional candidate Valerie Plame three "Pinocchios" for her claim that former George W. Bush administration official I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby leaked her identity.

Plame blamed Libby for the leak in a campaign ad released Monday, but according to the Post's fact-check, there is no evidence he disclosed her role to columnist Robert Novak.

Novak wrote the piece that reported that Plame, identified as a CIA operative, suggested sending her husband, Joe Wilson, to Niger to look into a report that Saddam Hussein had sought uranium in Africa. The claim that Hussein was going after uranium in Africa was used to justify the Iraq War, making Wilson and Plame key figures in the story of how the war came about.

The fact-check column in the Post concluded that the source identifying Plame for Novak's column was then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and that Novak confirmed it with White House aide Karl Rove and a CIA spokesman.

Armitage himself has said he may have been the leaker, the Post's fact-check column noted. The column is written by Glenn Kessler, who notes that he was a defense witness in Libby's trial and offered testimony.

However, the Post said it gave Plame three rather than the full four "Pinocchios" for the claim due to "possible seeding of the leak" by Libby.

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