Posted on 11/15/2005 8:49:00 PM PST by atomicweeder
Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed . . .
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Is he trying for another book?
I beg to differ. If "that idiot Scooter", as you called him had gotten his story straight, someone else would have been indicted.
If you think Fitzgerald was going to just fold his tent and head back to Chicago you sir are sadly mistaken.
Two years and someone was going to be indicted, count on it. Non-partisan Fitz my ass.
lol........yep everyone knew except Rove.
I'm disgusted with these weak assed Republicans at this point.
If they won't show they have some gonads, and back the President, this country truly will be doomed.
Didn't he have an obligation to tell that to the Grandstanding Jury before it adjourned?
(10-26) 07:13 PDT , (AP) --
Here is a timeline in the investigation of the leak of a CIA officer's identity:
_February 2002: Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson is asked by the Bush administration to travel to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Niger sold yellowcake uranium to Iraq in the late 1990s for use in nuclear weapons.
_Jan. 28, 2003: In his State of the Union address, President Bush states that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa" but does not mention that U.S. agencies had questioned the validity of the British intelligence.
_Mid June: Bob Woodward learns from a "senior administration official" that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction
_July 6: In a New York Times op-ed piece, Wilson writes that he could not verify that Niger sold uranium yellowcake to Iraq.
_July 14: Columnist Robert Novak identifies Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as "a (CIA) operative on weapons of mass destruction." Novak cites "two senior administration officials" as his sources.
_July 17: Matthew Cooper writes on Time.com that government officials have told him Wilson's wife is a CIA official monitoring WMD. Another article appears in the magazine's July 21 print issue.
_Sept 29-30: The Justice Department informs then-White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales that it has opened an investigation into possible unauthorized disclosures concerning the identity of an undercover CIA employee. Gonzales informs the president the next day. Bush tells reporters: "I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information. If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action."
_Dec. 30: U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald is named special counsel to investigate whether a crime was committed.
_May 21, 2004: A grand jury subpoenas Cooper and Time Inc., seeking testimony and documents. Time says it will fight subpoena.
_Aug 9: U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan rejects claims that the First Amendment protects Cooper from testifying and finds Cooper and Time in contempt of court. Time magazine appeals the ruling.
_Aug 12 and 14: The grand jury subpoenas New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who gathered material for a story but did not write one. The New York Times says it will fight subpoena.
_Aug 24: Cooper agrees to give a deposition after I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, personally releases Cooper from a promise of confidentiality.
_Sept 13: According to court documents, the grand jury issues a further subpoena to Cooper seeking additional information relating to the case. Cooper and Time move to quash the subpoena.
_Oct 7: Hogan holds Miller in contempt.
_Oct. 13: Cooper and Time held in contempt.
_Feb. 15, 2005: Appeals court rules against Miller and Cooper. Both Time magazine and The New York Times appeal to the Supreme Court.
_June 27: The Supreme Court refuses to intervene.
_July 1: Time magazine agrees to comply with a court order to turn over Cooper's notes, e-mail and other documents. Cooper and Miller continue to refuse to divulge sources.
_July 6: Hogan sends Miller to jail for refusing to divulge her source.
_July 7: Bush tells reporters that if anyone in his administration committed a crime in connection with the leak, that person "will no longer work in my administration."
_July 15: Presidential aide Karl Rove testifies to the grand jury that he learned the identity of the CIA operative originally from journalists, then informally discussed the information, without using Plame's name, with Cooper.
_Sept. 29: After 85 days behind bars, Miller is released from the city jail in Alexandria, Va., after agreeing to testify before a grand jury. She says her source has "voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality."
_Sept. 30: Miller testifies at the federal courthouse in downtown Washington, ending her silence in the investigation.
_Oct. 6: Rove agrees to testify again before the grand jury. Prosecutors say they cannot guarantee he will not be indicted.
_Oct. 11: Miller testifies again and turns over notes of a previously undisclosed phone conversation with Libby.
_Oct. 12: Miller completes her grand jury testimony.
_Oct. 13: Hogan lifts contempt order against Miller.
_Oct. 14: Rove testifies again.
_Oct. 16: Miller writes about her testimony in a New York Times article, saying she can't recall who told her Plame's name. She says Libby told her that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA's Weapons Intelligence, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control (WINPAC) unit.
_ Oct. 17: In a press conference, President Bush declines to say whether he would remove an aide under indictment.
_ Oct. 19: The Associated Press reports that Rove told grand jurors it was possible he first learned from Libby that Plame worked for the CIA.
_ Oct 21: Reports surface that Miller belatedly gave prosecutors her notes of a meeting with Libby only after being shown White House records showing that the two had met as early as June 23, 2003.
_ Oct.25: The New York Times reports that notes suggest that Cheney passed on Plame's identity to Libby in a previously undisclosed June 12, 2003, conversation.
_ Oct. 26: Fitzgerald meets with grand jury as panel winds up two-year investigation.
The DUmpster is all a-twitter about this. They're hoping that the "senior official" is Rove, or Cheney, or Bush himself. Dream on, DUmmies.
bttt
i am so tired of these stupid people and their stupid stories about themselves and who they talked to about some stupid woman
I just love this! Pincus practically calling Bob Woodward a liar, and the Washington Post HAVING to disclose information not detrimental to either Karl Rove or Scooter Libby. OUCH! That has to hurt.
Even better? Walter Pincus and Bob Woodward having to admit they can't remember, don't recall pertinent facts about their own involvement, and their notes don't help. LOL at their journalistic skills!
THat leaves someone who is no longer in the administration.
I think it would have looked better if someone who wasn't the chief of staff for the VP or the President's senior advisor was indicted. He gave Fitzgerald an easy out. If you want to see a prosecutor who is looking like an idiot right about now, that would be Ronnie Earle. So that shows that it is possible.
No law broken...so what?
his or hers?
or both?
Yes.
Pincus said he does not recall Woodward telling him that. In an interview, Pincus said he cannot imagine he would have forgotten such a conversation around the same time he was writing about Wilson.
"Are you kidding?" Pincus said. "I certainly would have remembered that."
Whatchawannabet Pincus testified to the grand jury that he had "no idea" Wilson's wife worked at the CIA -- even though, at the time, he was doing a story sourced to "an anonymous ambassador".
Woodward has just set Pincus up for a little bit of Libby's medicine...
We don't know that Libby lied yet. Innocent until proven guilty, remember. A statement is only a lie if one knows that the statement is untrue at the time one makes it. A statement made as a result of an imperfect memory is not necessarily a lie. And remember that Libby did not have the luxury of pleading the 5th, even though I suppose he could have done that, legally. Everyone on the Left would be screaming "coverup", if he tried. He also has had to keep his mouth shut while all of the accusations were being hurled at him. Let's at least give his attorney the opportunity to do discovery and cross-examine Fitzie's witnesses instead of assuming in advance what the result will be.
D I T T O !
Notice how the Pincus and Kristof articles appear nowhere on the AP timeline...
"February 2002: Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson is asked by the Bush administration to travel to Niger..."
ARRRRGH! How often are they going to repeat this lie???? NO HE WASN'T asked by the Bush administration to travel to Niger.
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