Posted on 03/01/2006 5:57:23 PM PST by Perdogg
WASHINGTON - Handwritten notes taken by the CIA show Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide knew the name of CIA spy Valerie Plame Wilson a month before her cover was blown.
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Nothing new herre. This was already discussed in the NYT on October 26th, 2005. Remember? I guess it's Dump on Bush Month, but when isn't it?
ping!
"t appears to be the first known document in the hands of prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that directly contradicts Lewis "Scooter" Libby's claim he learned from reporters in July 2003 that Valerie Wilson was a CIA employee."
---snip
"Meanwhile, a judge overseeing Libby's perjury trial ruled Monday that Libby won't get any copies of the secret daily intelligence briefings for Cheney and President Bush."
Anyone that reads Vanty Fair knew too, didn't they Barney???
not like it wasn't part of his job or anything...
What cover? Is Satchlebutt a cover?
Ummm, when was that exactly.....6,7,8 years ago???
who is Barney?
That's what he's basing his case against Libby on?
I sure hope so..............LOL.
Amazing, isn't it?
I wouldn't of charged it. But hey, I wasn't the special prosecutor who spent millions of dollars to back it up.
Can somebody clue me in on the meaning of this? I figured Libby knew Plame's name for months if not years before Novak wrote his column. I don't understand if this is supposed to be news, or what - - what am I missing here?
Thanks.
The discrepancy between Libby saying he learned of her from reporters and a CIA officers handwritten note that he knew about her a month before.
Repeat a lie often enough....
This was in the NYT on Oct 26th, 2005. there is nothing new here.
Libby apparently testified that he learned of her from reporters not a CIA operative's handwritten note. Doesn't matter it was in the NYT.
In fact, he had done some interesting work under BUSH I and had no doubt had to answer some questions to get in the White House to be commended by the President.
Later on, he most likely got another White House visit, to the Clinton White House, and his marriage to Valerie had to be reported to get that clearance. He may have even had a later visit under Bush II.
I have no doubt Libby is going to spring a White House clearance document showing Ambassador Wilson reporting his wife as a CIA employee ~ maybe even more good stuff.
Every individual with access to the clearance documents would know.
Fritz probably never bothered to check this data source.
bttt
I'll pop a cork in Your Honor when it comes to pass.
Handwritten notes taken by the CIA...
Care to consider WHY there are handwriten notes taken by the CIA?
Inside the USA.
Between US citizens.
Concerning the current administration.
Concerning a really, really, weird CIA 'mission' to nigeria.
............?
Bet there's a Freeper who has a copy of a blank document.
Seven officials have testified that Libby raised the CIA spy with them before columnist Robert Novak mentioned her in a column.
Would these officials be the same ones slamming Cheney???
And majority of DC knew her name .. doesn't mean she was a covert spy
The question is how is this material?
so did all the reporters he talked to.
This is just a rehashing of very old news.
Yes. But remember, it's being tried in DC. And, to twist an old expression, a ham sandwich could convict any Republican of anything in Washington DC.
Fife
More left wing lies and propaganda...."Libby knew SPY by name"?
She wasn't a SPY!
I'm so sick of the lies in the media.
She wasn't a SPY!
I'm so sick of the lies in the media.
If she was a spy, she was guilty of domestic spying!
Libby said that he knew about her before but that he didn't "know" about her with respect to reporters, until he heard about her from them. At this point, it wasn't something he could leak anymore so he could then talk about her. That's what he has been trying to say all along.
You've hit on a concept that I've been thinking about. Have you noticed how many news stories are really old, recycled stories:
-the Abu Ghrabib pics when released were pictures from months ago that the Pentagon was investigating already;
--the NSA wiretaping was Risen trying to sell his book and the NYT trying to hurt Bush;
--Katrina was a real and important news story back in August/Sept; this rehash is just taking known facts and trying to spin them as new;
--the Ports was an old and ignored story until someone decided how to play it;
--Joe Wilson and his shy spy wife was known and ignored for months until David Corn figured a way to play it and the MSM collaborated.
Much of the news is not really news, but political operations.
"Much of the news is not really news, but political operations."
Truer words are seldom spoken.
We have to do something about the media. They are throwing a huge temper tantrum. Sorry I posted twice.
And her husband owned a company that brokers sales of Yellowcake ore for the President of Niger.
Twice he went to Niger because his company had a big sale to handle. Once during the Clinton Admin, once during the Bush Admin.
Each time, his wifey got the CIA to let him do the 'spying' to see if Niger was selling ore to Saddam. Each time it was all expenses paid, no questions asked, no documents to sign.
Each time, Saddam got the exact amount of Yellowcake ore that Wilson said WAS NOT SOLD.
New sports car, picture in the magazines, Joe and Valerie playing like James Bond and Moneypenny.
It is so obvious, yet being kept so quiet. JW managed the sale of ore to Saddam, through his company, giving kickbacks to his CIA buddies. That is why some have quit, so they can avoid any investigation.
The DEMS are protecting this because they knew and profited as well.
The attack on Bush is to protect the guilt of the Dems and the CIA.
So the latest Katrina video didn't work for the Rats, now it's back to PlameGate.
The bug in this is that they leave out the additional questions clarifying his Libby's testimony. The word "FIRST" is the misleading word.
CIA says Libby defense could disrupt intelligence
Tue Mar 7, 2006 2:59 PM ETWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The CIA would have a hard time advising President George W. Bush on security threats if a judge forced it to provide all documents sought by a former vice presidential aide accused of perjury, the agency said in a court filing made public on Tuesday. ...
CIA information review officer Marilyn Dorn said agency officials would have a harder time keeping Bush up to date on security threats if a judge ordered them to dig up classified material sought by Libby.
"The job would divert their precious time and effort away from their primary task: preparing breaking intelligence for the president's immediate attention," Dorn wrote. ...
But Dorn said that the CIA would require up to nine months to reassemble the reports because they contain information from many different sources based on questions that Libby asked briefers.
Because of the highly sensitive nature of the material, only those officials who prepare the reports have enough security clearance to handle the task, she said.
Mar. 7 - The CIA signaled Tuesday it likely will fight the release of highly classified presidential intelligence briefings that Vice President Dick Cheney's former top aide wants to use in his defense against perjury charges.
Gathering the materials sought by I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's former chief of staff, would take up to nine months, Marilyn Dorn, a CIA information review officer, said in a sworn statement filed in U.S. District Court.
Dorn said the CIA believes disclosure of the information would damage national security and wants a chance to be heard in court before any material is turned over to Libby, who is charged with lying in the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's identity.
"The defense's requests clearly implicate highly classified, compartmentalized information and potential claims of executive privilege for presidential communications and the deliberative process," Dorn wrote.
"Compartmentalized" information requires a special security clearance, meaning the CIA could not assign just anyone to help gather the material Libby's lawyers want, Dorn said.
Dorn's affidavit was filed under seal last Friday but made public Tuesday.
Libby, 55, was indicted last year on charges that he lied to the FBI and a federal grand jury about how he learned the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame and when he subsequently told reporters.
Lawyers for Libby want access to nearly a year of the President's Daily Brief, a summary of intelligence about threats against the United States. Dorn estimated it would take nine months for the small staff responsible for producing the intelligence briefing to assemble the material.
But Dorn estimated it would take about three months to comply with a more streamlined request of about 40 days of the briefings that U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton suggested. That period would cover when Libby allegedly spoke to three reporters, along with two days before and after he was interviewed by FBI agents and testified before the grand jury.
"While the size of the task would be reduced if the time periods were restricted, the process is nevertheless time-consuming and laborious," Dorn said.
Walton, in an effort to try to give the defense some of what it says it needs, suggested that the CIA determine whether it could provide summaries of the briefings Libby received six days a week, often along with Cheney.
But Dorn warned the judge that summaries pose as grave a danger to national security as turning over the actual reports.
"Referring to the topics ... even in an abstracted or generalized manner presents the same concerns about disclosure of classified information," she wrote. "The very fact that these topics were presented to the president discloses sensitive information concerning U.S. intelligence and policy priorities."
The defense lawyers said they need all of the briefings to show that Libby was busy with important national security matters and may have forgotten or remembered incorrectly what he had said to reporters about Plame.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald opposed the request, calling it "simply breathtaking," and accused the defense of trying to derail the case.
In seeking the middle ground, Walton appears to be trying to avoid a showdown with President Bush over access to the documents.
But Dorn suggested there is no middle ground. "Any disclosure ... beyond its intended narrow audience -- the president and his most senior advisers -- increases the possibility of damage to the national security," she wrote.
Libby usually received intelligence briefings with Cheney. But, sometimes, Dorn said, the CIA told Cheney things it did not tell Libby.
Frequently, she said, Libby received more information than Cheney because Libby often asked the CIA additional questions.
The CIA official who briefed Libby learned to "customize" the report by including additional information in anticipation of the former White House aide's questions, Dorn said.
"As a result, the briefing provided to Mr. Libby on any given day usually differed from, and only rarely would have been identical to, the briefing provided to the vice president and the president," Dorn wrote.
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11712712/ - CIA may fight releasing memos to Libby
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8550312/ - Read the facts about the naming of a covert CIA agent
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