Thursday, July 21, 2005

S is for Secret Memo & Mehlman gets Bitchslapped

Wash Post: "A classified State Dept memo central to a fed'l leak investigation contained info about CIA officer Plame in a paragraph marked "(S)" for secret, a clear indication that any Bush administration official who read it should have been aware the information was classified, according to current and former govt officials." Ouch! But it gets better: "The paragraph identifying Plame as the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson was clearly marked to show that it contained classified material at the "secret" level, 2 sources said. The CIA classifies as "secret" the names of officers whose identities are covert, according to former senior agency officials." Does Mehlman really want to keep arguing that Plame was a desk-bunny whose identity wasn't classified? Anyhoo, Novak gets the juicy scoop that Wilson's wife is a CIA operative. He calls Rove to confirm-Rove confirms it. Novak calls the CIA- claims the CIA told him not to use her name- yet the asshole printed her name anyway,( b/c having the CIA ask you not to print her name is not reason enough to miss an opportunity to be Rove's bitch). In the middle of these hijinks are 2 Cheney staff members (Libby and John Hannah). Who is Hannah? Refer to Newsweek's 12/15/04 issue: A memo written by a top Washington lobbyist for the controversial Iraqi National Congress raises new questions about the role VP Cheney’s office played in the run-up to the war in Iraq. The memo, obtained by NEWSWEEK, suggests that the INC last year was directly feeding intelligence reports about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and purported ties to terrorism to one of Cheney’s top foreign policy aides, John Hannah. Conspiracy much?
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