Posted on 02/11/2005 10:30:42 AM PST by seamus
Odd behavior for a clandestine spy.
Awesome link and in chronologic order. Thank YOU.
Thanks---I had been meaning to find that article again as I rebuild my bookmarks. It's filed.
Yes, it's more proof she was not undercover.
I'll add here that I was just reading the other day about fellow agents that worked with her and used to be covert, too. They were testifying to some dem group about the unfairness of it all (the ostensible "leaking of her name").
It hit me that if they can talk openly about their former covert status and if Plame--as all evidence suggests--had not been covert for years and years, then it proves my point that it was determined early on she was not covert, no crime was committed along that line and the grand jury is looking at the story but from another viewpoint.
BTW, Wilson said at one point, when asked about the evidence that his wife recommended him for the trip--and this was fairly recently, so he is alleging she was covert at the time---he claimed she would not have recommended him because they had small children and she wouldn't want him to leave her alone. I thought "What?! Jane Bond was afraid of her husband leaving for a few days?" What rot. The usual dem "logic". They want it both ways...she's a covert agent, but yet a young mother of two wee babes who can't have her husband leaving for days so she would not have recommended him. Of course he says he did go despite her concern because his country comes first (right).
There sure was A LOT going on in Summer of 2003, wasn't there? I thank you all for including me in your pings. Puzzle piece here, puzzle piece there.
The daily KOS people have been working on this angle for some time. They have been after Gannon since they found out that he had been subpoenaed by the Special Council in regard to the Plame case. They don't know why, but they figure that Eberle, Gannon's boss is an acquaintance of Karl Rove and arranged the contact between Rove and Gannon and that it's possible that Rove told Gannon that the reason that Wilson was picked was because his wife, who is a CIA agent, recommended him. Anyway, it's basicly a fishing expedition and probably designed to move the investigation forward beyond the NYT and Time reporters who lost the court case on secret sources.
I have noted that in addition to wanting information from her about a "specified government official" and what she was told about Plame between July 6 and July 13, the grand jury also wanted to know what she was told about "Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium".
Well, this strikes me as broader than the simple issue of looking into the leaking of a covert agent's name (which I long ago rejected as the focus of this grand jury).
Well, I just re-read the first part and after the court re-hashes Matt Cooper's subpoena from a last summer (they recite how he refused, was held in contempt and finally did give testimony about a "specific source" who we all know was Scooter Libby and Cooper admitted Libby had NOT discussed Plame with him) the court then describes the next subpoena. Again, the grand jury appears to be looking farther afield than a simple investigation of whether Plame was covert and if so who leaked her name. This subpoena is for everything related to what Cooper was told about Wilson, his trip to Niger in 2002, in addition to anything to do with his wife.
Now I ask, is it me? Why would the grand jury be looking at the trip itself and what stories were being told about Iraq and uranium if they aren't conducting a different investigation than conventional wisdom holds?
Well, reading judicial writings makes my head spin, but I scrolled down and toward the end one of the judges is going on about Plame's covert status and "the leak" about it.
May 2003 meeting??
Fishing??
Rockefeller memo??
Me too.
No; it is not you -- it is grander than simply looking at item "a".
I reviewed some of Judith Miller's (authored) books as soon as I'd read about the subpoenas; as an authoress she comes across as a nice woman. I know Mr. Safire went ballistic. It was in a way unusual for Safire.
OTOH, I think of the Slaughter/Conyer petition in re Jeff Gannon; it just looks so silly.
Cyncooper? If you read anymore on this, could you ping me, pls? I'll remember to do likewise.
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