Isikoff last night indicated that the Special Prosecutor is pursuing another crime, disclosing or confirming confidential information in that the statement,"I heard that too" is the basis of confirmation. According to Isikoff this is the reason for the SP's questioning of the "document" Powell carried on Air Force One. If the MSM can't get em on one, move on to the next.Issakoff said something else on the Scarborough show last night that I thought was kind of disturbing...
...he said that he (Issakoff) "was in the courtroom" when the Fitzgerald announced before the grand jury, "This is not a case about investigating a whistleblower. This is a case of investigating an attempt to punish a whistleblower." [paraphrased]
Issakoff seemed very smug that despite the evidence that the law against outing covert agents had not been broken, Fitzgerald was still after somebody in the White House.
The only way I could see a statement like that in a good light would be if Fitzgerald meant that in a totally upside-down way (to what Issakoff thought it meant).
I.e., could it mean that Fitzgerald is viewing ROVE as the whistleblower on WILSON -- and Wilson as the punishable one, who had tried to wreak vengeance on a whistleblower?
Or am I being too clever by half, hoping that's what Fitzgerald meant?
I saw it too and I think Issakof was just trying to stir the pot. I think what Fitzgerald was referring to was Wilson's claim he was a "Whistle-blower" against this administration but reporters don't have the rights to violate the law in protecting someone, even it was Wilson himself. I think he's after Wilson. The document in question does not show she was covert but her name is listed as an attendee at a CIA and State Department meeting in which discussed Wilson going to Niger. She actually introduced Wilson as the meeting started. From my understanding there was analyst there too that could have disclosed their relationship outside the room and then word traveled to some reporters and then they tried to confirm it through Rove then Wilson himself. Now Miller probably already knew their relationship and that she worked at the CIA on WMD because Wilson had been speaking to Kristof, who dumped him after he was duped, then Wilson getting defensive called Miller to write a story and set the record straight. Wilson told Miller that his story could be verified through Plame at the CIA. As Miller nosed through the CIA, she learned through analyst that Plame and Wilson were married and that's why she didn't do the story but told other reporters. Now there are two groups of reporters that know, those who got it from the analyst and those who heard it from Miller herself.