If Rove Wasn't Initial Source of Leak, Who Was? [LATimes laments]

Ted Kennedy wrote a letter to Dion shortly after the game began wanting to know the status of the investigation.

Seems a few other DEMs asked for the investigation ...

Bryan Bender, Wayne Washington, Boston Globe
Tuesday, September 30, 2003
Washington -- Democratic leaders Monday demanded an independent investigation to determine whether senior White House officials illegally leaked the identity of an undercover CIA agent to exact revenge on her husband, one of the most vocal critics of the Bush administration's policy on Iraq.
Led by Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle of South Dakota, scores of lawmakers and presidential candidates called for an independent inquiry -- the first since the independent counsel law expired in 1999. They argued that the review now being conducted by the FBI could not be objective in a Justice Department led by Attorney General John Ashcroft, a Bush appointee.
"We do not believe that this investigation of senior Bush administration officials, possibly including high-level White House staff, can be conducted by the Justice Department because of the obvious and inherent conflicts of interests involved," Daschle wrote in a letter to President Bush and Ashcroft cosigned by three other Democratic senators. "Therefore, we strongly urge the immediate appointment of a special counsel to investigate this matter."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/09/30/MN309591.DTL

Ted Kennedy wrote a letter to Dion shortly after the game began wanting to know the status of the investigation.

Seems a few other DEMs asked for the investigation. Here are the names.

Four Senate Democrats, including Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., urged Attorney General John Ashcroft to appoint a person of "unquestioned independence and impartiality." "We do not believe that this investigation of senior Bush administration officialscan be conducted by the Justice Department because of the obvious and inherent conflicts of interests involved," said the letter, also signed by Sens. Carl Levin, D-Mich., Joseph Biden, D-Del. and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/09/30/national/main575824.shtml

Could minor Ambassador Joe Wilson himself have been the source in blowing his own Wife's "cover" (even if she had not been a covert CIA agent at the time fothe alleged leaks)?

It is distinctly possible, (though it may be unlikely that Joe Wilson himself directly was NY Times Judith Miller's source), since Joe Wilson himself evidently routinely bragged openly to strangers about her CIA employment, prior to such "cover" being "blown" in the press.

Here's an example of Joe's apparently routine and open bragging about Valerie being a "CIA agent," which became known directly to me over a year ago:

He certainly bragged about it per a famous and highly reliable source's (named below) account of his own face-to-face encounter with Amb. Joe Wilson prior to Valerie Plame's "outing" as a CIA agent/employee.

Based upon a personal conversation (we were in a small group eating; it was NOT an "off the record") I had with eminent historian Victor Davis Hanson (we were at a luncheon table together during a trip to Europe), it appeared entirely possible that Joe Wilson himself was the (or one source, if not the original one) possible source in revealing his own wife's status as a CIA agent or employee.

Victor Davis Hanson (Wilson presumably knew Victor Davis Hanson wrote regularly for NRO (National Review Online), had done OpEds for the Wall street Journal, and other publications, and had his own Website with a widespread following) said he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were both in the same "Green Room" before a televised debate-discussion on Iraq, etc. and Joe first warned the TV make-up person not to get powder on his $14,000 Rolex watch, then he bragged to Victor about several things (possessions and trips to Aspen, etc.), like his expensive car (I think it was a Mercedes), and then bragged about his beautiful ("hot") wife who, Joe Wilson said (braggingly) was a CIA operative.

I asked Victor Davis Hanson Why he didn't write up this account.(?) He replied that Joe Wilson would probably simply deny it, since only he (VDH) & Joe Wilson were in the Green Room together before the broadcast.

However, it is now easy to surmise that Joe Wilson is a crass, materialistic, self-promoting, vain, egotistical, bragaddocio-opportunist, so this account is perfectly consistent with Valerie Plame's TWO photo shoots in Vanity Fair.

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