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[Shermy]

No doubt whe would have talked to Ritter, and numerous others. There were plenty of her associates mentioned by name in articles, like Cooper's, mentioning Thielman, Wilson, Foley, etc. Ritter was out of government the loop since 1998, and dicey because of his Iraqi contacts. Unless you can show me otherwise, I think Miller had plenty of other ways to find out about Plame than Ritter. Could have been Plame herself.

The lefties miss who had the biggest motive to revenge against Wilson. Namely, George Tenet. Did he, I don't know. But if Tenet, Miller might be scared to talk.

[Black Tooth]

You seem very knowledgeable about this case. She never got/printed the WMD story did she?

[tobyhill]

Miller didn't feel she needed much, after all she got the top WMD inspector and then needed corroboration. Wilson was a nobody but could be a someboby if Miller finds out about him. She then tracks down his reference and finds out it was his wife, Plame. This is why she didn't write the story but gave it to Novak and Cooper. Cooper then confirms by omission with Libby and Novak runs with it.

[tobyhill]

Actually I'm just throwing out some guesses based on some info that has been confirmed. It's all too possible that Miller had Plames name years before the Iraq conflict and just followed her career.

[Zeppelin]

In a statement, Time said it believes "the Supreme Court Time Magazine has limited press freedom in ways that will have a chilling effect on our work society and that may damage free flow of information the security of secret agents that is so necessary in a democratic safe society." '

There, fixed all the typos. Don't they have any proofreaders at Time?!? =P

[Bernard Marx]

Matt Cooper, (husband of Mandy Grunwald)

Good Lord, that explains a lot! I'd forgotten that relationship. Knowing how Mandy's wired into the Dem ultra-inner circle, and being one of the nastiest PR cutthroats/liars in their arsenal of dirty tricksters, I now begin to see some fascinating connections. She ran Hillary's media campaign in N.Y. and shilled for Clinton-Gore. And talk about nepotism: her Dad was a long-time managing editor of Time. She's a close associate of Harold Ickes.

[Black Tooth]

From this morning.

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Time agrees to name confidential sources

Magazine editor cites 'duties under the law' as reason John Wildermuth, Chronicle Political Writer

Friday, July 1, 2005

Time magazine has agreed to surrender confidential documents demanded by a Washington special prosecutor, despite objections from the reporter who faced up to four months in jail for not complying with the court order.

Norman Pearlstine, editor in chief of Time Inc., said the magazine would turn over information relating to the unmasking of a covert CIA operative. Pearlstine said the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to reject Time's effort to overturn a lower court order demanding the information "will have a chilling effect on our work.''

[StarFan]

As per Matt Drudge:

Lawrence O'Donnel on McLaughlin Group: 'I'm probably gonna get pulled into the grand jury for saying this, but it will be revealed in Cooper's notes that it is Karl Rove who leaked Plame's identity'... Developing.

[tobyhill]

Oct. 1,2003 CNN.Com

"Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this," Novak said on "Crossfire." "There is no great crime here."

Novak said Monday that he was working on the column when a senior administration official told him the CIA asked Wilson to go to Niger in early 2002 at the suggestion of his wife, whom the source described as "a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction."

Another senior administration official gave him the same information, Novak said, and the CIA confirmed her involvement in her husband's mission.

In his column, Novak attributed the information about Plame's involvement in Wilson's trip to Africa to two unnamed senior administration officials.

"They asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else. According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative and not in charge of undercover operators," Novak said.

The Washington Post quoted a "senior administration official" in a story Sunday as saying that two top White House officials disclosed the identity of Wilson's wife in calls to at least six Washington journalists. Novak was the only recipient of the information who published it, the Post reported.

Wilson at one point suggested that senior Bush adviser Karl Rove could have been behind the leak, which the White House denied. He backed off that assertion somewhat Monday, accusing Rove of at least condoning it.

[Black Tooth]

I'm probably gonna get pulled into the grand jury for saying this, but it will be revealed in Cooper's notes that it is Karl Rove who leaked Plame's identity'... Developing.

If this had any credibility, this story would explode.

[Black Tooth]

Wilson at one point suggested that senior Bush adviser Karl Rove could have been behind the leak, which the White House denied

What's your take here?

[tobyhill]

My take is, there is a fine line here between leak and common knowledge. Just the White House denying a report of knowledge just means they don't know and throwing Roves name out there would be a denial of knowledge. Some other reports have Wilson bragging about his wife being an "operative" for the CIA and not an analyst. I actually think that Rove gave her name but only to indicate that is how Wilson got his job but the CIA confirmed her identity. Novak states there was no great crime in how the name was retrieved so I'm assuming the name was given but her occupation was founded. Just giving her name was not a crime but disclosing, if it happened, that she was an operative is.

[tobyhill]

Follow up to previous statement,

I have just learned that for security reasons no one in any White House administration knows identities of covert operatives within the CIA. The only information given by the CIA to the President is generic information using agent numbers. The White House may know some names of employees within the CIA but not job description if under cover. The reason for this is that if any one in the administration is kidnapped or taken hostage national security can't be compromised.
Rove probably knew Plames name but would have had no idea she was an operative. I think the judge and GJ have probably determined that no crime was committed except by Cooper and Miller for defying his order and wasting the GJ's time by making them guess at names when it could have been cleared up rather quickly. Novak is off the hot seat because he testified already and gave up the whole story.