Posted on 07/13/2003 9:10:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
"two senior Administration officials"
Sounds similar to Novak's sources, no? Could it be those reports about Rove blabbing to "six reporters" be misplaced by those who didn't get calls? That it wasn't Bushies doing this?
And perhaps when they called Novak...
Then there's the whole issue of Wilson's leaks prior to his NYTimes article - to mostly the Brit press, part of wanting to take down Blair?
Ping to new developments
"I better file it away"
Not too deep. I think it's the core of the matter.
the "July 13" and "21" articles are one in the same. 13 is the date it was posted on the web (before Novak's article). 21 the issue date on the paper magazine.
As I read it the first subpena was limited to Libby. Cooper probably said "It wasn't him", he wouldn't answer subsequent questions so they gave him another subpena.
Thinking again about Richard Clarke - he likes to talk. Tenet could be one - he felt slighted by Wilson.
OK--I made sure to adjust the title in my folder to reflect the article is of interest to the grand jury.
At some point, they will begin to ignore it -- as if it isn't happening. Judith Miller and Matt Cooper could be sent off to the big house...and all it will earn them is a column inch of agate type on page C-18.
From a CNN interview
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0502/20/rs.01.html
COOPER: Well, first of all, it's not entirely -- I -- without saying, disclosing, what everyone wants to know, I wouldn't be entirely certain about, you know, the motivation of the leakers, who leaked what, when, where, how.
But that said, look, journalism needs to be able to protect its sources in order to be able to function. It's the only way to ferret out information. And we need to be able to do that.
Now, I will readily concede that at times that may not make the life of a prosecutor easier. But that's not my job in society is to make the life of a prosecutor easier. You know, I gave limited testimony to a prosecutor last year after one of my sources absolved me of our promise of confidentiality, and I was happy to do so, and would do it again.
KURTZ: An aide to Vice President Cheney.
COOPER: I would do it again, right. But this time the prosecutors asked for really, basically, every one of my sources and my notebook. That's much harder to comply with.
NBC has said previously that Russert was "not a recipient" of Plame's name. A statement from the network yesterday said "the Special Prosecutor's questions addressed a telephone conversation initiated by Mr. Libby and focused on what Mr. Russert said during that conversation. Mr. Libby had previously told the FBI about the conversation and had formally requested that the conversation be disclosed."From August WashPost last year. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A52895-2004Aug9_2.html I remembered that, thought is was just confusion...but maybe not only did Libby not tell - maybe he didn't know! Maybe a reporter told him about Plame's Wilson connection.NBC officials said that at the time of the conversation Russert "did not know Ms. Plame's name or that she was a CIA operative" and "he did not provide that information to Mr. Libby." Network representatives would not elaborate on Fitzgerald's interest in learning whether Russert disclosed information to Libby.
The case says less about miller:
Supbpenas "seeking documents and testimony related to conversatins between her and a specified government official "occuring from on or about July 6, 2003 to on or about July 13, 2003,...concerning Valerie Plame Wilson...or concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium."
Presumably that person isn't Libby since long before he released the reporters. Who could it be...and just how did she get involved in this matter...she apparently wrote nothing about Plame
If she never wrote about Plame, then wouldn't it have to be "concerning Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium"? She was the Times' "beat writer" on WMD, after all.
In order to have a "source", one must first have a story published, I would think. Indeed, to warrant the GJ subpoena, one would've had to have published a story in which one cited a source. I doubt they can subpoena idle gossip.
Would be nice to know what she published in that time frame. But given Miller's beat and his proximity to Plame, may I suggest Alan Foley?
Thanks!
Since she wrote about WMD's for a long time, maybe she already knew about Plame, and blabbed after Wilson's article.
Thanks for the ping - you are an awesome researcher.
The article appears to hint at a new line of spin... "We waited to long to round up Qadeer Khan's Network and it's everyone's fault but Carter's... Clinton's, aparently, since he's not mentioned.
Interesting article, though.
Things that make you go hmmmm....
To: Howlin A New Jersey native, [Matthew] Cooper is a 1984 graduate of Columbia College in New York City and lives in Washington D.C. with his wife, Mandy Grunwald, and their son. -- http://centerforpolitics.org/programs/nss/text_03_agenda-panel.htm via 25 posted on 05/22/2004 6:49:11 AM PDT by Mo1To: Howlin The scary-toothed Mandy Grunewald, Hillary chum extraordinaire, could very well have been the person who tipped her husband off. She would have known Wilson's wife's profession...heck, they probably all went to the same cocktail parties. 29 posted on 05/22/2004 7:07:26 AM PDT by Miss Marple
Also .. don't forget Hellary sits on the Senate Arms Committee
Minutes before the debate [2004 FL debate], Time correspondent Matt Cooper said of the Kerry comeback scenario: "Everyone in this room wants to write it. They're aching to write it. When the polls close up, you'll see more of it."
----- "A Changed Political Landscape, Or an Isolated Peak in the Polls?" By Howard Kurtz, Washington Post Staff Writer , Monday, October 4, 2004; Page C01
Actually I think the Tenet quote was from last year and was just recently used in the article, it just surprised me since I hadn't seen him quoted much.
Judith Miller was IN Iraq at one point. I remember that she wrote a long article about the search for WMD that had a lot of detail. It basically took the position (this was early in the post-war time period) that there were WMD's and it was only a matter of time until they were located.
Perhaps she got her information from someone in the CIA.
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