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"Harry Hope" |
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16 Jul 2005 02:25:22 PM |
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Mysterious State Department memo's smmmmmmmokin'!!!!!! |
From The Washington Post, 7/16/05:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/16/AR2005071600087.html
Memo Is a Focus of CIA Leak Probe
By Mike Allen and Jim VandeHei
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, July 16, 2005; Page A06
Federal prosecutors investigating the leak of former CIA operative
Valerie Plame's identity have asked several witnesses in the case
whether they read a State Department memorandum mentioning her that
circulated inside the Bush administration in the days before she was
publicly named, according to people familiar with the testimony.
FBI agents showed the State Department memo to several witnesses
during the interviews over the past two years, according to lawyers in
the case, in an effort to determine whether it was the source of
information about Plame's role at the CIA.
A key mystery in the leak case is how senior administration officials
first learned of Plame's identity and her relationship to a key critic
of President Bush's Iraq policy, before her name appeared in news
reports.
Lawyers familiar with the testimony of White House senior adviser Karl
Rove said he has admitted discussing Plame, though not by name, but
said he learned of her role from a reporter.
Several legal sources said the prosecution has shown strong interest
in the State Department memo, which circulated on Air Force One during
the Africa trip -- just days before Plame's name was made public in a
column by Robert D. Novak.
Prosecutors are investigating whether administration officials leaked
Plame's name to retaliate against her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, an
ex-diplomat who had accused Bush of twisting intelligence to justify
the Iraq war.
Wilson, on a mission authorized by the CIA, went to Niger to
investigate whether Iraq was seeking uranium for nuclear bombs.
He reported that there was no evidence to support that suspicion.
Federal prosecutors are investigating whether then-Secretary of State
Colin L. Powell, who was on the Africa trip with Bush, carried with
him a memo containing information on Plame, as well as other
intelligence about allegations made by Wilson.
According to people involved in the case, prosecutors believe that a
printout of memo was in the front of Air Force One during a July 7-12
trip Bush took to Africa, but investigators are unsure who reviewed or
obtained copies of it.
One of the earliest moves by special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald,
signaling his aggressive stance, was to get the grand jury to subpoena
Air Force One phone logs from the trip, the sources said.
Newsweek reported in August 2004 that Powell's testimony before the
grand jury focused, in part, on the memo.
The memo "identifies her as having selected or recommended her
husband" for the Niger assignment, according to a person who has seen
it.
Administration officials circulated this information as a way of
discrediting the reliability of Wilson's charges.
Lawyers involved in the probe said prosecutors are interested in
whether anyone called back to Washington to talk about information in
the memo.
Prosecutors have asked numerous questions about then-White House press
secretary Ari Fleischer, who was on the trip and aboard Air Force One,
according to the lawyers.
Fleischer has declined to comment.
Rove said of the memo that he "had never seen it, had never heard
about it and had never heard anybody else talk about it," according to
a lawyer familiar with his testimony.
Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said he can say "categorically" that
Rove did not obtain any information about Plame from any confidential
source, such as a classified document.
The memo was first reported by the New York Times, but several sources
had described its content to The Washington Post in interviews this
week.
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Yeah!!!! Puttin' that net out for the biiiiiiiiiiiig catch!!!!
Harry
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| Title: Re: Mysterious State Department memo's smmmmmmmokin'!!!!!! |
16 Jul 2005 05:25:05 PM |
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Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:vpnid15t45u2irrr6hgigne2b7mguf82dh@4ax.com:
Rove said of the memo that he "had never seen it, had never heard
about it and had never heard anybody else talk about it," according to
a lawyer familiar with his testimony.
Rove also said he had no communication with Novak. Sorry Karl, go to jail,
do not collect $200.
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"It's interesting. I see all these political ads and all these
commentators say it's our job as Americans to vote. Let me tell
you something, with Bush in charge of the economy, this might
be the only job you have all year." -Jay Leno
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| Title: Re: Mysterious State Department memo's smmmmmmmokin'!!!!!! |
17 Jul 2005 06:51:49 AM |
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Political Pagan wrote:
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:vpnid15t45u2irrr6hgigne2b7mguf82dh@4ax.com:
Rove said of the memo that he "had never seen it, had never heard
about it and had never heard anybody else talk about it," according to
a lawyer familiar with his testimony.
Rove also said he had no communication with Novak. Sorry Karl, go to jail,
do not collect $200.
You'd think that with two years to work on his story, Rove could come
up with something more credible and defensible....
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| User: "Tempest" |
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| Title: Re: Mysterious State Department memo's smmmmmmmokin'!!!!!! |
16 Jul 2005 05:54:43 PM |
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Political Pagan wrote:
Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in
news:vpnid15t45u2irrr6hgigne2b7mguf82dh@4ax.com:
Rove said of the memo that he "had never seen it, had never heard
about it and had never heard anybody else talk about it," according to
a lawyer familiar with his testimony.
Rove also said he had no communication with Novak. Sorry Karl, go to jail,
do not collect $200.
And now there's emails from Rove proving he lied.
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"I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides with their own desires."
- Susan B. Anthony, 1896
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