[cripplecreek]

Personally I think the leakers name was Joe Wilson.

[PhiKapMom]

This is hilarious -- you couldn't write a better ending to the story then to have the press be the leakers. How are they going to spin that one?

[atlanta67]

that would be so sweet if the leaker was a reporter,

[Shermy]

"Sources close to the investigation say there is evidence in some instances that some reporters may have told government officials -- not the other way around -- that Wilson was married to Plame, a CIA employee."

Lot of people here could have told the Wash Post that a year ago, given the leaks about the investigation. I think Miller might be the first person to have told Scooter Libby.

[blogblogginaway]

I posted just this evening ........... "Nah. In my mind the person they are protecting is one of their own."

I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks this. Just look at the fact they had an opportunity to burn Bush in the election if it was Rove and they didn't so ......... going to jail for Rove if indeed this 'outing' was a crime? Highly unlikely. Well not likely PERIOD!

[Criminal Number 18F]

declaring Wednesday an "historic" day

Hey, Editor and Publisher. We are Americans (even if I personally lapse into British spellings a lot). We are most definitely not Cockneys. We do not drop our aitches.

Repeat after me, snob: "a historic." "A historic." There ya go.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[ClearCase_guy]

"The leaker is ... Karl Rove!! This just shows how evil and unethical the Bush Admin is and how they will stop at nothing to weaken our ... hang on. I've just been handed a newsflash. Turns out the actual leaker is Katie Couric. Well. Ah ... Ah ... Ummm ... Katie has always been a bold journalist, always willing to do go the exta mile to uncover a great story. We salute her!"

[anonymous_user]

It's Karl Rove, duh. Larry O'Donnell guessed that, so it must be true. </scarcasm>

[Waco]

"Fears his reputation would be tarnished." Ain't being "journalist" tarnishment enough Matt?

[maxter]

If the Washington Post says this, you can bet it was a reporter or reporters. Getting this juicy little tidbit out there may be an attempt to dull the story's impact.

[doug from upland]

DFU presents Joe Wilson's diary of his excellent adventure in Niger
secret source | 7-14-04 | dfu


Posted on 07/14/2004 10:44:48 AM PDT by doug from upland


JOE WILSON'S secret diary; entries Feb. 17 - 25, 2003


Monday, Feb. 17
my biggest worry - when was I last immunized for yellow fever?...hectic cab ride to the airport...grabbed a latte on the way at the Starbucks where Caity Mahoney was murdered...awwww, she didn't get her chance to talk to Ken Starr...damn Republicans...caught United flight to Paris.....caught Al Algerie and landed in Niamey...20 hours and a lot of smelly people....man, I better find a way to get a book deal out of this


Tues, Feb. 18
fourth floor suite at the Gawaeye is okay...jet lag hitting hard...sat by the pool sipping sweet mint tea most of the day...asked a bellhop if he knew anything about Iraq buying yellow cake...he didn't


Wed., Feb. 19
spent about three hours sipping sweet mint tea...watched some CNN...I don't know whether to thank or blame Valerie for getting me this gig...if she ever finds out about the student who came in on my flight from Paris, she will hang me by my nads...asked Bridgette if she knew anything about Iraq buying yellow cake...she didn't


Thurs, Feb. 20
had a traditional Niger breakfast and stomach felt queasy most of the day...met with a few government officials...we sipped sweet mint tea...can't remember their names...asked if they knew about Iraq buying yellow cake...they didn't


Fri, Feb. 21
went to the Niamey Grand Market to do some shopping...asked the cabbie on the way if he knew anything about Iraq and yellow cake...he didn't...had a leisurely lunch and sipped sweet mint tea for about an hour and a half...asked 10 shop keepers if they knew about Iraq buying yellow cake...nine of them knew nothing...one guy heard some kind of a rumor from his brother-in-law in Chad but didn't trust him, particulary after his honor killing of their niece ...bought Valerie an authentic Djenne-Djeno copper alloy bead necklace...got one for Bridgette, along with a copy of Leaves of Grass in French...put it all on expense account...thank you, taxpaying suckers...watched a little CNN and a porno tape I brought with me


Saturday, Feb. 22
it was a tough week, so I thought I deserved some R&R...went to see camel races...asked three camel jockeys if they knew whether Iraq had bought yellow cake...they didn't...the races were fun, but the sweet mint tea had me jumping up to go to the bathroom too often...ha, ha, kind of like Al Gore was not in the room because he drank too much iced tea and had to go pee...took Bridgette out for some dinner and entertainment...we had a fairly decent meal of rice and sauce, couscous, kebabs, grilled fish and chicken...then went to the Jet-7 and drank a few too many beers

Sunday, Feb. 23
slept in late...this stinking place has no decent Sunday brunch in the whole damned country...had a continental breakfast -- orange juice, coconut milk, stale pastry of some kind...sat by the pool most of the day drinking sweet mint tea...in the evening, I went by a mosque and asked some kids outside if they knew anything about yellow cake...they ran away...I think they were scared and thought I might have been out gay cruising...maybe I'm lucky I didn't get beaten up like Kevin Spacey when he was out cruising in Geraldine Mary Harmsworth Park in London


Monday, Feb. 24
last day here...in good faith, I really wanted to do my job and find out about this yellow cake stuff...a police officer knew nothing, a librarian knew nothing, three tribal leaders knew nothing, a high-ranking military officer knew nothing, a peddler knew nothing, a guy I met in a public restroom knew nothing...spent another few hours by the pool to get in my last several cups of sweet mint tea


Tuesday, Feb. 25
another 20 stinking hours from Niamey to Paris to D.C....if this religious warrior and cowboy thinks he is going to get away with claiming Iraq was a threat, I have all the info I need to nail him...hell, he was never elected in the first place...I wonder if it will be Howard Dean or Hillary who gets the nomination...if I were Howard, I would worry that Hillary might whack me...whoever gets the nod, if they win, I had better get a good job...but I'm not going back to Niger...give me Paris

[Duke Nukum]

I remember when all of this started, Fred Barnes or someone on Britt Hume's panel said it was an open secret in Washington that Plame was CIA.

[Jewels1091]

Oh my word...how funny would that be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[SmithL]

It's certain that Miller and Cooper will spend less time in jail protecting Democrat wrongdoing than Susan McDougal did.

[GOPJ]

The Washington Post, declaring Wednesday an "historic" day in the history of the press in America, suggested that perhaps the "leaker" of Valerie Plame's identity as a covert CIa operative was not a Bush administration official but a reporter (or reporters).

If true, the MSM is going to drop this story like a hot potato. Move on -- nothing to see -- no story here...

[montag813]

Didn't Novak say 2 years ago that half of Washington already knew who Plame was and what she really did before the leak? I have read in more than a few places that she did not exactly keep it a secret, and neither did Wilson.

[cyncooper]

Of course before he wrote his July 6, 2003 op-ed in the New York Times, Wilson was giving the story out on background.

Here's one example:

Missing in Action: Truth

(eye roll on the title meant to refer to the Bush administration)

May 6, 2003

excerpt featuring Wilson as source where he even links the forged documents falsely to his trip. Turns out he never saw them, they didn't emerge until after his trip and the CIA headquarters didn't have them until after the SOTU "sixteen words":

Consider the now-disproved claims by President Bush and Colin Powell that Iraq tried to buy uranium from Niger so it could build nuclear weapons. As Seymour Hersh noted in The New Yorker, the claims were based on documents that had been forged so amateurishly that they should never have been taken seriously. I'm told by a person involved in the Niger caper that more than a year ago the vice president's office asked for an investigation of the uranium deal, so a former U.S. ambassador to Africa was dispatched to Niger. In February 2002, according to someone present at the meetings, that envoy reported to the C.I.A. and State Department that the information was unequivocally wrong and that the documents had been forged.

The envoy reported, for example, that a Niger minister whose signature was on one of the documents had in fact been out of office for more than a decade. In addition, the Niger mining program was structured so that the uranium diversion had been impossible. The envoy's debunking of the forgery was passed around the administration and seemed to be accepted — except that President Bush and the State Department kept citing it anyway. "It's disingenuous for the State Department people to say they were bamboozled because they knew about this for a year," one insider said.

~snip~

[MinuteGal]

I was ticked multiple times today as the top-of-the-hour announcer (between Rush segments) repeated during every news report that the government prosecutor was trying to determine "which member of the Bush White House" was the leaker.

I almost threw an ash tray at my brand new Grundig radio, I was so outraged.

Leni

[Loyal Buckeye]

This just in:

Larry King has just volunteered to be identified as the Deep Leaker.

[DainBramage]

His worry that " his journalistic reputation will be tarnished" is understandable, whats not is

his total disregard for the George W Bushes reputation, or Carl Rove's reputation being tarnished

while he covers his "sources/drinking duddies asses.

Journalistic integrity = honor among theives.