Posted on 07/26/2005 9:47:23 PM PDT by SolidSupplySide
The special prosecutor in the CIA leak probe has interviewed a wider range of administration officials than was previously known, part of an effort to determine whether anyone broke laws during a White House effort two years ago to discredit allegations that President Bush used faulty intelligence to justify the Iraq war, according to several officials familiar with the case.
Prosecutors have questioned former CIA director George J. Tenet and deputy director John E. McLaughlin, former CIA spokesman Bill Harlow, State Department officials, and even a stranger who approached columnist Robert D. Novak on the street.
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Ummmm...in the interest of accuracy...
In chapter 17 of the book, Wilson traces the Novak/Plame affair to Tuesday afternoon, July 8, 2003. On that day, he writes, an unnamed friend of his showed up at Wilson's office in Washington and told him he had just bumped into Novak on the street. When Wilson's name came up, Novak allegedly told this man that his wife "works for the CIA."
Feeling it was "the height of irresponsibility for Novak to share such information with an absolute stranger on a Washington street," Wilson reached the columnist by phone the following day to protest. He says that Novak apologized, but then asked Wilson to confirm the tip. Wilson says he refused.
That would make him the one who gave Hussein the false tip that encouraged him to attack Kuwait, wouldn't it?
The re-surfacing of Terrance J. Wilkinson...???
Yah, brahs! From your lips to Doug Thompson's ears. Do NOT be surprised if Doug Thompson and Capitol Hill Blue play a part in all this somewhere down along the line. They're exactly the kind of crowd that Puddinhead Joe would leak to....
Be Seeing You,
Chris
See #42...it was a friend of Wilson's, according to Wilson's own book.
Also, from an interview:
Late on Tuesday afternoon, July 8, six days before Robert Novak’s article about Valerie and me, a friend showed up at my office with a strange and disturbing tale. He had been walking down Pennsylvania Avenue toward my office near the White House when he came upon Novak, who, my friend assumed, was en route to the George Washington University auditorium for the daily taping of CNN’s Crossfire. He asked Novak if he could walk a block or two with him, as they were headed in the same direction; Novak acquiesced. Striking up a conversation, my friend, without revealing that he knew me, asked Novak about the uranium controversy. It was a minor problem, Novak replied, and opined that the administration should have dealt with it weeks before. My friend then asked Novak what he thought about me, and Novak answered: “Wilson’s an asshole. The CIA sent him. His wife, Valerie, works for the CIA. She’s a weapons of mass destruction specialist. She sent him.” At that point, my friend and Novak went their separate ways. My friend headed straight for my office a couple of blocks away.
Okay...now...why would a friend of Wilson's approach Novak on the street out of the blue BEFORE Novak's article came out and ask him about the Niger claim? Now you can really say hmmmmm.....
I can't imagine Novak talking to a complete stranger....maybe he recognized him/her..(press,gov employee etc) but have never been introduced...
No kidding. Talk about creating facts to support your story.
No way Novak talks to a complete stranger...he is really a jerk about that. He gave me the finger at a Maryland basketball game several years ago when I tried to say hello to him. I think Novak is cooling his jets until the investigation is done and then he is going to unleash Hell on a lot of people.
It is revolting that Pincus continues to beat this dead horse. I guess the White House is just supposed to sit there and take it when a putz like Joe Wilson starts calling the President a liar, telling untruths about the Vice President, and the entire MSM jumps on the bandwagon.
Johnson was my first guess to...considering he is a pundit on a lot of talk shows...Novak may have recognized him because of that.....
Journalist Kenneth Timmerman said that when the congressional Cox Commission confirmed that China had committed nuclear espionage against the U.S., "the Washington Post assigned a journalist whose wife was a Clinton administration appointee to cover the story." That was Walter Pincus. Timmerman said that Pincus and his wife Ann were guests of the Clintons at Camp David. Timmerman said that after several years at the U.S. Information Agency, Ann Pincus was transferred in the late 1990s to the Office of Research and Media Reaction at the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the same office that "lost" a laptop computer loaded with highly classified intelligence documents in April 2000.
Timmerman noted that, in his reports for the Post, Walter Pincus consistently sought to debunk the Chinese espionage allegations. Now he's sliming the administration for acting against the Iraqi nuclear threat. No wonder the Democratic National Committee cites his work.
Check out this post above...
A couple of days before Novak's article was published, but after my friend's strange encounter with him, I had received a call from Post reporter Walter Pincus, who alerted me that "they are coming after you."
Is this the same person?
http://www.public-i.org/about/staff.aspx
Ann Pincus
Director of Communications and Outreach
Ann Pincus has over 30 years’ experience in public affairs, marketing, government relations and management. She served as director of research, first at the United States Information Agency, then the Department of State from 1993-2001, where she supervised public opinion polling and media research around the world for the U.S. government. She was vice president for communications at WETA TV-FM from 1987 to 1993; earlier she served as press secretary to Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland, a publicist for National Public Radio, and director of information for the House Select Committee on Population. She began her career as a journalist, working for the Arkansas Gazette, Ridder Newspapers, the Village Voice and the New York Post, among other publications. She is a graduate of Vassar College.
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