Posted on 02/24/2005 8:49:30 AM PST by Jimmyclyde
Lawmakers: Writer May Have CIA Leak Info Thursday, February 24, 2005 WASHINGTON — Two lawmakers have sent a letter to the U.S. attorney saying a White House reporter who recently resigned following questions about his identity and background may have information vital to the investigation into who leaked a CIA operative's name to the press. Reps. Louise Slaughter, D-N.Y., and John Conyers, D-Mich., the ranking Democrats on the House Rules Committee and House Judiciary Committee, respectively, wrote a letter to Patrick Fitzgerald (search), the U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, saying the Chicago attorney's office may need to subpoena the journal of reporter James Guckert (search ). The journal recounts Guckert's days covering the White House. According to Conyers and Slaughter's letter, Guckert had access to a memo revealing the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame (search).
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You missed the Mason connection:
The masons sent "Gannon" to the briefing room that day for a good reason. They want "blogers" to be outlawed because it is the only aspect of th eMass Media that they canno get total control over.
Another "stunning" revelation on that page:
Bush had many gay experiences and just because he is sitting on the Throne in the Oval Office does not mean he stoppedROTFLMAO!
This is madness. These Congressional morons need to censured and fined.
Great post! Everytime this stupid story comes up I think of the same facts. I will need to commit these to memory and create useful links for battling moonbat libs.
They openly backed Kerry. They aren't non-partisan as they wish to appear. They 'guide' the news across the US, from small to large papers.
Pathetic, pitiful, desperate dem alert!
get a load of this
Like Fitzgerald doesn't know how to conduct his investigation.
By all means, call Gannon. But in the meantime his grand jury wants to speak to other reporters like Judith Miller of the NY Times and Matt Cooper (again) of TIME Mag. They know more than Gannon about the Wilson/Plame business and these dems know it.
Gannon made a big mistake talking to E & P about his journal. These people are on a witchhunt. The idea he had a "CIA" memo? Duh! That's why he was on the investigation list.
From the article:
Conyers and Slaughter note in their letter that in an October 2003 interview with Wilson, Guckert referenced a memo written by U.S. intelligence officials indicating the operative suggested Wilson could investigate reports that Iraq had sought uranium.
"In and of itself, this indicates that Mr. Guckert had access to classified information," the two lawmakers wrote. And "it appears now that Mr. Guckert memorialized his experiences at the White House."
Actually "in and of itself", it shows he read the October 17 Wall Street Journal where they described the memo. (Gannon's interview with Wilson was the next week and published on October 28.)
LOL
At bottom, it's about who gets to ask the President (or anyone else) questions, and what kind of questions are asked. They HAVE to "win" this one, because they have already had two of their batters strike out (CBS and CNN).
Look, it's a bird, it's a plane... no it's RAT MOONBATS in tinfoil swimtrunks.
He didn't have a memo and he has stated that.
He's been pretty open (except when it comes to those websites) on the topic of his career as a reporter.
Let E & P hyperventilate. Their credibility is going downhill and fast.
There's nothing here. the damn Dems love using subterfuge.
I checked out the "editor" of that site's post; he's definitely anti-Bush.
This is the "say if often enough and it becomes truth" theory, correct?
The Demos are basing their facts on Guckert, who claims to have kept a journal.
Yet they are all over him for being a liar.
From one minute to the next, their agenda changes.
Yeah right!
"Actually "in and of itself", it shows he read the October 17 Wall Street Journal where they described the memo. (Gannon's interview with Wilson was the next week and published on October 28.)"
Anyone following this case objectively knew about that WSJ article. I noticed the lefty-flavored chat always closed their eyes to articles like the WSJ one that debilitated Wilson's crazier claims about his wife having no involvement. Kind of like how they conveniently forgot the Bipartisan Senate Intel. Report to keep their discourse about Plamegate pure to their hopes.
Now the leak of the memo to the WSJ, or description of the memo, may be criminal, is interesting, and must have come from the "administration." I imagine the disinterest in that part of the investigation from the left arises because if confronted the content of the memo must be confronted to - that their hero Wilson is loopy, or hiding something.
Gannon talked about the memo, I guess, no different than any journalist pretends they "know" something that appeared in a major media outlet.
FYI, from the unobjective right the slant is often a conclusion that no crime could have been commited with the Plame leak. Let's see what the investigators say.
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