The spy who kept it out of the cold.
Posted on 05/08/2006 11:49:56 AM PDT by yoe
In a development that got no media play over the weekend, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's defense lawyer announced on Friday that he has located five witnesses who will testify that Joe Wilson outed his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA employee before Robert Novak did so in his July 2003 column.
According to the NationalReviewOnline's Byron York, Libby's lawyer Ted Wells told the court that his witnesses "will say under oath that Mr. Wilson told them his wife worked for the CIA."
Wells said that he expects Leakgate Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to call Wilson to testify in a bid to salvage his case.
Reacting to the news on Friday, Wilson declined to deny the allegation, suggesting instead that it no longer mattered who first outed his wife.
"The last I heard, this is case is about allegations Mr. Libby lied, perjured himself before the FBI, special prosecutor and grand jury and obstructed justice," he told CNN in a statement. "None of those charges of which he's been indicted has anything to do with me."
I love MacRanger too, he just has a way of putting things. And he is an x military intel guy. These are the type of guys we've got in our military. They're just way too GREAT...I love 'em.
That's what bj klintoon said.
Hmmm, seems as though that, if this is true, Mr. Wilson is in the same boat as Mr. Libby, no?
bump
After the Wilson/Plames are arrested, tried and convicted, I believe there is a LAW that says yiou can't make money on a book deal about what you did unlawfully. She better write fast!!
Yes!
Dracular Dems
What a big web they have woven,
These folks in the Democrat coven.
They'll lie and impugn
From midnight til noon
When the sun burns them up like an oven.
The spy who kept it out of the cold.
And little ole' Val has had problems with hubby joe...wonder when she'll start stepping out on him.
But I didn't know your cat was a covert CIA operative! So you just outed your cat.
Hee-hee...Wilson's gone from demanding the leaker be "Frpgmarched" out of the Whitehouse, to "It doesn't matter".
The Dems certainly got a lot of mileage out of this conspiracy. Bush should have crushed him from the git-go.
The original allegation that the White House had outed a secret CIA agent was B.S. The whole exercise has been a witchhunt.
I said this months ago!Wilson messed up when he said the things about Bush and his administration.(motive for Wilson)I figured he and his wife with their leftist buddies planned this whole thing.
Nice mouth.
A little cockeyed I'd say. . .or muscle imbalance.
What is with these people and their horrible dental work?
Funny how now it doesn't matter to that traitor Wilson who outed his wife. It sure mattered during this CBS interview:
"Joe Wilson says he believes someone in the White House was responsible for the leak. “It was the White House that decided they were going to go after me, and the tactic they decided to use was to go after my wife.”
“Do you think that the prosecutor has gotten to or is getting to the bottom of it?” Bradley asked.
“I don't know. It's hard for me to say. This was done to silence others. This was a shot across the bow to others. The message was if you do to us what Wilson did to us, we'll do to you what we just did to Wilson's family,” said Wilson.
And the damage to Valerie Plame Wilson was serious, as spelled out by the special prosecutor. “Valerie Wilson’s friends, neighbors, college classmates had no idea she had another life,” Fitzgerald said.
When they first met, Wilson says Plame told him she was a risk analyst for an international firm.
“But, once you were married, you had to join this cover. I mean, you couldn't tell your family, your friends,” Bradley asked.
“No. The day that Mr. Novak's article appeared, my sister-in-law turned to my brother and said, ‘Do you think Joe knew?’ So, not even my brother or my sister-in-law or any of my immediate family knew,” Wilson recalled.
“So, no one said, ‘I sort of suspected this all the time?’” Bradley asked.
“No,” Wilson replied.
Wilson says that did not surprise him at all. “As Valerie points out, most people are interested in talking about themselves and, therefore, it was very easy for a professional to shift the conversation away from her and onto other people.”
When she saw Novak’s column, he says, it came as a complete shock. Eighteen years of a meticulously-crafted cover, exposed in an instant.
“She felt like she had been hit in the stomach. It took her breath away. She recovered quickly because, of course, you don't do what she did for a living without understanding stress. And she became very matter of fact right afterwards. And started making lists of what she had to do to ensure that her assets, her projects, her programs and her operations were protected,” Wilson said.
“Did she realize then that her career as an undercover agent for the CIA was over?” Bradley asked.
“Absolutely. Sure. There was no doubt about it in her mind. And she wondered for what,” Wilson said.
“Novak also published the name of the front company that your wife used for cover, Brewster-Jennings & Associates. How would you characterize that disclosure?” Bradley asked.
“I think it was abominable. But when he published her name, it was very easy to unravel everything about her, her entire cover. You live your cover. And so you live Brewster-Jennings. So, she would have had business cards that said Brewster-Jennings on them. So, that was just insult to injury. And it was just Mr. Novak taking a second bite of the apple,” says Wilson."
Source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/28/60minutes/main994753_page3.shtml
had the white house not issued this blanket "cooperate with a serious investigation" order, Libby would never have walked into that GJ.
what should have happened:
Libby should have resigned, lawyered himself up to the max, and walked into the GJ and said "I do not recall" - ten thousand times. Same with Rove. Both of these guys fell into the perjury trap set for them by Fitzgerald.
The administration has blown this every step of the way, from the moment they permitted a special counsel to be appointed to investigate an underlying crime that never occurred.
Link this to the other thread.
the eyebrows are Groucho, the hair is Harpo, and the case is Zippo.
Yeah, she's a bleached blond and her roots are beginning to show.
Lewis Libby defense lawyer Theodore Wells told a federal judge a short time ago that the Libby defense team has located “five witnesses who will say under oath that Mr. [Joseph] Wilson told them his wife worked for the CIA.”
And here's what NewsMax said and what they added to the statement:
...Lewis 'Scooter' Libby's defense lawyer announced on Friday that he has located five witnesses who will testify that Joe Wilson outed his wife Valerie Plame as a CIA employee before Robert Novak did so in his July 2003 column.
The NRO article doesn't mention Robert Novak or any dates. Once again NewsMax manufactures facts to make their story sound more interesting.
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