Saturday, July 16, 2005

The Scooter Libby Connection to Plame

Sweet Mother of Mercy... this damn Plame Outing is like a game of pong. It just keeps bouncing from one player to another player and all of them point the finger at one another. Anyway... here's the latest developments: From Pittsburgh Post Gazette: Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald may seek criminal contempt charges against Judy Miller. Why? B/c 2 sources say Miller spoke w/Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby, during the key period in July/03 (focus of Fitz's investigation). But what about Libby? In this '03 Time article, Libby is Cheney's mouthpiece about Wilson's Niger trip & Libby can't bash Wilson enough. And this Aug '04 Wash Post article shows that Fitz is very interested in what Libby & Tim Russert discussed. But very early on, Wilson named Libby: In May/04, Wilson (on Democracy Now!) pointed the finger at Libby and/or Cheney: Q: Who do you think exposed your wife? A: My understanding is there was a meeting in the offices of Cheney, chaired most likely by the VP’s Chief of Staff, Libby, at which time a decision was made to do a work-up on me. A work-up means run an intelligence operation against a private US citizen to find out everything you can about him, his family, his habits, all of that sort of stuff. I think Scooter Libby is involved up to his eyeballs in this. Everybody who was at that meeting would have been part of the conspiracy to run the intelligence operation against me and ultimately to make the decision to leak. What is irrefutable in all of this is that they betrayed the national security of the country."
Posted by Tina :: 12:39 AM :: 2 Comments:

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