Plamegate: 25 Lingering Questions

Original FReeper review of Michael Isikoff and David Corn, "Hubris" | 02/07/2007 | Fedora

[thegreatbeast]

Prodigious work. You have my respect and thanks but frankly I now have a headache.

The pardon so infuriated Justice lawyers who had worked on the case that the Southern District promptly launched an investigation into whether the pardon had been "proper." One former prosecutor we spoke to described the Rich case as "the single most rancorous case in the history of the Southern District."
Whatever happened to this investigation?

[federal]

bookmark

[WVNan]

Fantastic! Is there any way to get a link to this or a copy to Libby's lawyers? Perhaps kristinn could help.

[Fedora]

I think it'd be pretty easy to establish reasonable doubt about Russert's credibility.

[Fedora]

Thanks! I'm sure anything of value to them will be brought to their attention, though I imagine most of it falls outside the narrow scope of the trial per se.

[Magnolia]

Bookmark........thanks Fedora!

[windchime]

Fedora, have you seen this?  

Masterful summation of Plame situation   Clarice Feldman   2-11-07

The anonymous author who uses the pen name Fedora has done a masterful job of summing up the Plame case. Everything you wanted to know is found here.

[eyespysomething]

mark to read later

[Mo1]

Ping and later read

[Fedora]

Thanks! Yes, I have seen that.

[Howlin]

Scooter ping!

[Lancey Howard]

Excellent. Bookmarking.

[prairiebreeze]

Fedora, you are amazing. Thank you.

Freeper excellence ping (sorry if it's a duplicate but the thread is worth reading/bookmarking)

[ctdonath2]

Soundbite summary, please?

[Peach]

Fedora - amazing research! Bump for later read.

Bahbah - you may wish to read this.

Prairie - thanks for the ping. I'll read it fully at the next scheduled housecleaning break :-)

[Peach]

Good questions, Fedora, and I guess we won't wait for the MSM to raise any of them. Sadly.

This whole matter has gotten so convoluted that I'm relatively lost with regard to who said what when.

[prairiebreeze]

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[pollyusa]

Regarding Foley and Plame, Clarice wrote to Foley and recieved this reply in June 2006.

[Fedora]

Thanks. Yes, she and I have discussed that and how to interpret it--there was a thread on it here where I posted some comments. It seemed to me like Foley was disassociating himself from any direct supervisory authority for Plame's actions, but his comment didn't really give enough information to determine whether he had any indirect authority over her in the chain of command, and unfortunately he indicated that he did not want to be contacted for follow-up comments that might clarify this.

[pollyusa]

Here is one more reference to WINPAC regarding Plame's employment.

James Gordon Meek and Kenneth Bazinet of the New York Daily News quoted a former CIA counterterrorism official who told them that Plame “ran intelligence operations overseas” for the Agency’s counterproliferation center, “recruiting agents, sending them to areas where they could access information about proliferation matters, weapons of mass destruction.” Contrary to the Senate Intelligence Committee’s reporting, former CIA official Vincent Cannistraro said that Plame worked undercover for the Center for Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control, or WINPAC. Politics of Truth Forward

We probably wouldn't agree on much on the politics of the Plame Leak, but I want to say I think you did a fantasic job with this research.