Posted on 10/02/2005 12:10:11 AM PDT by YaYa123
As the CIA leak investigation heads toward its expected conclusion this month, it has become increasingly clear that two of the most powerful men in the Bush administration were more involved in the unmasking of operative Valerie Plame than the White House originally indicated.
With New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from jail Thursday and testimony Friday before a federal grand jury, the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, came into clearer focus. Libby, a central figure in the probe since its earliest days and the vice president's main counselor, discussed Plame with at least two reporters but testified that he never mentioned her name or her covert status at the CIA, according to lawyers in the case.
His story is similar to that of Karl Rove, President subtittle: Bush and Cheney Aides' Testimony Contradicts Earlier White House Statement
Bush's top political adviser. Rove, who was not an initial focus of the investigation, testified that he, too, talked with two reporters about Plame but never supplied her name or CIA role.
Their testimony seems to contradict what the White House was saying a few months after Plame's CIA job became public.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Oops......If I remember correctly
He is?
Interesting
They got squat and they know it. Miller didn't go to jail for Libby... she went to jail for the real source.
I just did a quick search and the only attorney I've seen mentioned so far is John Boyd
I'll keep looking
This will clear Libby and Rove who admitted they told people that it wasn't the President or Vice President who sent Wilson, but that Wilson's wife recommended he go to Niger as he'd been there in the past.
The media sure does protect it's own!
"When you see one of the authors is Walter Pincus, you can save your eye site and read no further."
Isn't that the truth. Now if I am not mistaken doesn't the Mrs. Pincus work at the CIA???
I've heard from several sources that her testimony was 'narrowed'.
I don't know how to post an article, but maybe that article can be posted on FR.....it's excellent.
Check out Powerline....they've got an excellent analysis of dear judy.
MSM rule: When you don't have the facts on your side to damage Republicans, lie.
The news accounts stress that Earle is Travis County prosecutor. What is more relevant is that Travis County is a more leftist venue than most in Texas, being the seat of the state government AND the site of the main campus of the University of Texas. If Earle prosecuted Democrats, there are a lot more in his jurisdiction than there are Republicans. The probability is that those Democrats whom he prosecuted were the more conservative Democrats. Libs can get back to us with this bedtime story when Earle indicts someone like Congressman Lloyd Doggett.
Meanwhile, US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is a Democrat from the Northeast who cut his teeth on prosecuting the five, ummmm, families of New York as US Attorney for New Jersey. Unlike most Clinton era US Attorneys, this guy actually did a quite competent job. It brought him to the attention of then Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), the last honest major Republican in Illinois who delivered the republic from his predecessor Carol Mostly Fraud. Senator Fitzgerald brought US Attorney Fitzgerald in to simultaneously prosecute former Governor Lyin' George Ryan (now on trial for 22 counts of fraud in government [but I repeat myself]) AND Richie Daley's Chicago Machine. Richie is sweating so much that Lake Michigan has risen three inches during a summer of drought and that's no global warming fantasy (actually the lake is not rising but I'm Irish and why let the facts get in the way of a good story?). Richie IS sweating bullets. Dubya's administration liked Fitzgerald's Illinois prosecution of the Chicago machine s much that he added one more task to the very talented Fitzpatrick's platter. If Richie AND Ryan go to prison, I would gladly elect Prosecutor Fitzgerald as Governor. He is no liberal either.
“Miller went to jail to protect not Libby, but another source or sources, and the prosecutor has agreed not to ask her about those other sources. If that's true, it suggests that someone in the administration--presumably, either Karl Rove or Scooter Libby--is being set up.”
20 years ago, I'd have said stuff like this is a kook's playground... well... I always liked the monkey-bars.
Talk about a misleading headline !
I've asked that a few times in response to comments such as yours, and no one has ever come up with one.
"Role of Rove, Libby in CIA Leak Case Clearer
Bush and Cheney Aides' Testimony Contradicts Earlier White House Statement"
It just doesn't make sense that this Washington Post column would concentrate on what Scott McClellan said over a year ago, rather than the implications of Judith Miller, finally, finally deciding she would get out of jail.
You understand correctly, I think.
Wilson's famous letter, 'What I Didn't Find in Africa', included the phrases 'I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report' and 'The agency officials asked if I would travel to Niger to check out the story'.
I'd say the 'officials' were his wife and someone like her administrative assistant, who seized an opportunity to grind a political axe. The outcome of his trip seems to have been determined before he left.
I may have missed something, and I'll look again.... but I didn't see a single Judith Miller story in today's New York Times.
What could possibly explain The New York Times not writing about this today?
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