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Cheney Aide Named as Secret Source in CIA Leak Probe

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Old 30-09.-2005, 11:21 PM   #1
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Finally agreeing to testify, New York Times reporter Judith Miller's grand jury appearance throws a damaging spotlight once again on a White House whose credibility has been undermined in the criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.

Freed after 85 days in a federal detention center, Miller was to testify Friday for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation about her conversations in July 2003 with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis ``Scooter'' Libby.

Until a few months ago, the White House maintained for nearly two years that Libby and presidential aide Karl Rove were not involved in leaking the identity of Valerie Plame, whose husband had publicly suggested that the Bush administration twisted intelligence in the runup to the war in Iraq.

The timing of the criticism by former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was devastating for the White House, which was already on the defensive because no weapons of mass destruction had been found in Iraq. The president's claims of such weapons were the main justification for going to war.

Libby met with Miller just two days after Wilson blasted the Bush administration in a Times op-ed piece.


Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has testified recently that Rove and Libby had spoken to him about Wilson's wife that same week in July 2003 when Miller spoke to Libby.


In October 2003, with the criminal investigation gaining speed, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said of Rove and Libby: ``Those individuals assured me they were not involved in this'' leaking of Plame's identity.


Miller has been in custody in Alexandria, Va., since July 6. A federal judge ordered her jailed for civil contempt of court when she refused to testify.


The disclosure of Plame's identity by syndicated columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003, triggered a criminal investigation that could still result in criminal charges against government officials.


``My source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations relating to the Wilson-Plame matter,'' Miller said in a statement Thursday. Her newspaper identified Libby as the source, saying that Miller and Libby spoke in person on July 8, 2003, then talked by phone later that week.


Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. said that ``as we have throughout this ordeal, we continue to support Judy Miller in the decision she has made. We are very pleased that she has finally received a direct and uncoerced waiver, both by phone and in writing, releasing her from any claim of confidentiality and enabling her to testify.''


White House aides signed waivers earlier in the probe, but Miller wanted and received personal assurances that her source's waiver was voluntary. Libby's lawyer, Joseph Tate, did not return a phone call seeking comment.


Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn declined to comment.


President Bush has given varying accounts of the circumstances under which he would fire leakers in the Plame probe.


In September 2003, Bush said ``we'll take the appropriate action'' and his spokesman said ``they would no longer be in this administration.'' In June 2004, Bush reiterated the pledge, answering ``yes'' when asked if he would fire anyone in his administration who leaked Plame's name. In July, amid revelations that Rove and Libby had been involved in the leaks, Bush said that ``if someone committed a crime'' he would be fired.


The federal grand jury delving into the matter expires Oct. 28. Miller would have been freed at that time, but prosecutors could have pursued a criminal contempt of court charge against the reporter if she continued to defy Fitzgerald.


Of the reporters swept up in Fitzgerald's investigation, Miller is the only one to go to jail.


Novak apparently has cooperated with prosecutors, though neither he nor his lawyer has said so.


Novak's column in July 2003 said two senior administration officials told him Plame had suggested sending her husband to the African nation of Niger on behalf of the CIA to look into possible Iraqi purchases of uranium yellowcake.


Wilson's article in the Times, titled ``What I Didn't Find In Africa,'' had stated it was highly doubtful that any such transaction had ever taken place.


Miller is a veteran national security reporter. In the 1980s, she became the first woman to be named chief of the Times' Cairo bureau in Egypt. For her work on Osama bin Laden in 2001, she won a Pulitzer Prize for explanatory journalism as part of a small team of Times reporters.


Starting in 2002, her stories about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq helped bolster the Bush administration's case for toppling Saddam Hussein. The failure to find the weapons prompted heavy criticism of Miller and the Times as well as of the Bush administration.



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Looks like Corruption, Inc. is willing to sacrifice Libby instead of Karl "Goebbels" Rove. Apparently, Turd Blossom is much more valuable to the Man-Ape than The Dick's Chief of Staff is.
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Lewis Libby has been named as the source by the NYT's lawyers in the Miller case.
Libby stated that Valerie Plame was a spy.
This is really really bizzare.

Why would a Bush official name the wife of a Bush-appointed diplomat (Joseph Wilson), as being a spy ?
Not only did Libby break the Official Secrets Act but has also put Valerie Plames life in dnager by publicly confirming that she was a spy.

This stinks.

Joe Wilson (Valerie Plames husband) stated that what George Bush said in his State of the Union address about Niger supplying Uranium to Iraq was a lie.
Seems that the Bush administration on being shown to have lied about Niger/Uranium sought to put Ms Plame and her work (and life) in jeporardy.
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Lewis Libby has been named as the source by the NYT's lawyers in the Miller case.
Libby stated that Valerie Plame was a spy.
This is really really bizzare.


It's rather strange seeing the Administration Apparatchiks knifing
their assassins in the back. When are they going to start knifing
No Such Agency people ? Or are Libby et al actually acting on
behalf of the NSA ?

It appears that the NSA are in the ascendancy at the moment.
They have scored significant successes in the UK and New Zealand
over the last 36 months.
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Why would a Bush official name the wife of a Bush-appointed diplomat (Joseph Wilson), as being a spy ?

Well, you named the exact reason they blew her cover: because her husband JW showed that Man-Ape was lying in his infamous "16 words" S.O.T.U. speech of Jan. 2003. These type of Gestapo tactics are no different than were used in 1930's-40's Germany.

Then you have the anthrax letters that were sent to Dem. Senators Daschle and Leahy, which have been traced back to a military base in Maryland, but where the FBI & authorities have been dragging their feet for a long time.

The "accidental" plane crash of Sen. Wellstone.

Cockroach Tom and his bullying tactics in the House of Reps. At least he finally got indicted.

Election fraud.

Lies about WMD's.

State-sponsored torture.

Katrina.

Billions missing from Iraq's coffers under Paul Bremer, and now again under the "new" puppet regime.

There are any number of similar examples from these bastards. Considering the evidence and who benefits most, it is not hard to see that the BushCo's pulled off 9/11 as well.

Or are all of the above mere coincidences?? I think not. What I wonder is: when are the American people going to wake up and connect the dots?
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It's rather strange seeing the Administration Apparatchiks knifing
their assassins in the back.

I think the fix is in. Libby wouldn't have "released" Miller to cooperate with special prosecutor Fitzgerald if the White House didn't have the probable consequences well thought out. You'll most likely see Scooter-Boy and maybe even Turd Blossom falling on their swords to protect their bosses, because the way Bush & Cheney are said to run things in the White House, it would be highly improbable that the blowing of Plame's cover was not known about and authorized by either the Lyin' King or The Dick, or both.

I'm also taking bets that all of these perps will escape real and serious prosecution.
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Not only did Libby break the Official Secrets Act but has also put Valerie Plames life in dnager by publicly confirming that she was a spy.
This stinks.

Not only her life but EVERYONE'S LIVES WHOM SHE EVER CAME INTO CONTACT WITH. Nice going Bush Reich errr...I mean-administration The crime of TREASON comes to mind but these criminals are pulling the strings right now in all three branch's of gov't. It is fitting that DeLay was indicted for his, no doubt, felonies. Oh well, I guess thats what god wants is Dubya to have autocratic power much like-who's the guy I'm thinking of- hmmmm..... Oh yes, Saddam
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I'm also taking bets that all of these perps will escape real and serious prosecution.

I'm sure you are aware that the law doesn't apply to republican's when they are in power. Besides, god's on their side
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I'm sure you are aware that the law doesn't apply to republican's when they are in power. Besides, god's on their side


Which one, Mammon or Satan ?
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Which one, Mammon or Satan ?

LOL!

The devout BushCo "Christians" never read Matthew 6:24...they must have had the flu that Sunday.
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The devout BushCo "Christians" never read Matthew 6:24...they must have had the flu that Sunday.

Makes me want to give them a piece of my mind
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that and the high level morals of no nookie in the oval office, which you may remember, was the time-wasting soapbox issue of the day during the impeachment of clinton.

certainly this was the top issue of concern for many a middle american puritanical voter...

i still remember how all these lawmakers took their big shot at fame by making longwinded speeches on the taxpayer's dime about this.

where are they now? it is almost like bushco has something on them to keep 'em in line. it has been mentioned in an interview by an ex-bush campaign finance manager this is the case, as to what is being held over their heads, she stated it is child porn.

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where are they now? it is almost like bushco has something on them to keep 'em in line. it has been mentioned in an interview by an ex-bush campaign finance manager this is the case, as to what is being held over their heads, she stated it is child porn.

Of course...blackmail. I would bet that there are more than a few Dems in similar straights, hence their silence on so many issues with the Chimpsters.

But why is it that with the Repigs, it seems most often to be some weird sexual proclivity? Apparently, too much repression when they were young.
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But why is it that with the Repigs, it seems most often to be some weird sexual proclivity? Apparently, too much repression when they were young.


Same with the Conservatives here in the UK. Right wingers are born and bred perverts. Moralizing from the top of the dungheap is a defining characteristic of Perverts, and funnily enough it's something that Conservatives and Republicans do a lot of. I am over generalizing though, because Tony Blair does a lot of that too, but then again his policies are right wing through and through.
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Not only her life but EVERYONE'S LIVES WHOM SHE EVER CAME INTO CONTACT WITH. Nice going Bush Reich errr...I mean-administration The crime of TREASON comes to mind but these criminals are pulling the strings right now in all three branch's of gov't. It is fitting that DeLay was indicted for his, no doubt, felonies. Oh well, I guess thats what god wants is Dubya to have autocratic power much like-who's the guy I'm thinking of- hmmmm..... Oh yes, Saddam


Of course, you're correct - everyone Plame ever came in to contact with are, by definition, also compromised too. Perhaps fatally so.

I believe that the Plame case is Treasonable.
It is one thing to be a spy for the other side and endanger life (Rick Ames case within the CIA comes to mind) but to have the political masters of these agencies exposing their own people is completely irresponsible and reckless.
And worse.
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that and the high level morals of no nookie in the oval office, which you may remember, was the time-wasting soapbox issue of the day during the impeachment of clinton.

certainly this was the top issue of concern for many a middle american puritanical voter...

i still remember how all these lawmakers took their big shot at fame by making longwinded speeches on the taxpayer's dime about this.

where are they now? it is almost like bushco has something on them to keep 'em in line. it has been mentioned in an interview by an ex-bush campaign finance manager this is the case, as to what is being held over their heads, she stated it is child porn.

"if you are not outraged, you are not paying attention"


It is one of the contradictions of the USA which I really cannot fathom.
The insistance that somehow sexual promiscuity (Clinton and Lewinsky) is deemed to be more reprehensible than unilaterally invading another country on a tissue of lies, deceit and falsehoods.

If Clinton and Lewinsky were banging away on the desk in the Oval Office,
so what ?
They're consenting adults.

OK : I don't advocate married people fooling round but if they do, they do.
However, their foolacting never had a bearing on public policy.
Unlike the decision taken by Bush to go to war.

It is amusing how certain sections of middle America seem to get so uptight
about sexuality and who's banging who.
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