(NBC's Meet the Press) Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story

[truthpusher]

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Top Cheney Aide Among Sources in CIA Story
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By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago
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Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide was among the sources for a Time magazine reporter's story about the identity of a CIA officer, the reporter said Sunday.

(snip)

Cooper said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that he spoke to Libby after first learning about Wilson's wife from Rove.

According to Cooper, Libby and Rove were among the government officials referred to in Cooper's subsequent Time story that said Wilson's wife was a CIA official and that she was involved in sending her husband on a trip to Africa.

(snip)

On Sunday, Cooper also said there may have been other sources for that information. He declined to elaborate.

In a first-person account in the latest issue of Time, Cooper said Rove ended their telephone conversation with the words, "I've already said too much." Cooper speculated that Rove could have been worried about being indiscreet or "it could have meant he was late for a meeting or something else."

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[mom cat]

1. Drip, drip, drip

[chimpymustgo]

2. Rove doesn't say anything by accident.

I think he was just adding a little extra topping of "I've really given you a great scoop here", while thinking to himself, "now get going on the smear-job".

Rove doesn't do accidents. But he does make mistakes.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Looks like it.....

[goclark]

5. LOVE the drips! Can you put their faces in each drip?

[Viva_La_Revolution]

9. great visual!...

pm DistressedAmerican - one of our res. Graphic Wizes (? how do you pluralize wiz? )

[HysteryDiagnosis]

13. Uhhhh, that was from an ".edu" site... someone with better skills

than I will have to give it a go.... glad you liked it.... :)

[mom cat]

26. Good to the last drop!

[cal04]

4. No surprise. I hope they're investigating the WHIG

Systematic coordination began in August, when Chief of Staff Andrew H. Card Jr. formed the White House Iraq Group, or WHIG, to set strategy for each stage of the confrontation with Baghdad. A senior official who participated in its work called it "an internal working group, like many formed for priority issues, to make sure each part of the White House was fulfilling its responsibilities."

In an interview with the New York Times published Sept. 6, Card did not mention the WHIG but hinted at its mission. "From a marketing point of view, you don't introduce new products in August," he said. The group met weekly in the Situation Room. Among the regular participants were Karl Rove, the president's senior political adviser; communications strategists Karen Hughes, Mary Matalin and James R. Wilkinson; legislative liaison Nicholas E. Calio; and policy advisers led by Rice and her deputy, Stephen J. Hadley, along with I. Lewis Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.

The first days of September would bring some of the most important decisions of the prewar period: what to demand of the United Nations in the president's Sept. 12 address to the General Assembly, when to take the issue to Congress, and how to frame the conflict with Iraq in the midterm election campaign that began in earnest after Labor Day. A "strategic communications" task force under the WHIG began to plan speeches and white papers. There were many themes in the coming weeks, but Iraq's nuclear menace was among the most prominent.

'A Mushroom Cloud'
The day after publication of Card's marketing remark, Bush and nearly all his top advisers began to talk about the dangers of an Iraqi nuclear bomb.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&contentId=A39500-2003Aug9¬Found=true

[TahitiNut]

7. The WHIG is clearly implicated. They "fixed the intelligence"...

... as an inheritor of more than ten years of false intelligence laundering. Remember "Curveball" - the 'source' of all the bogus bioweapons lab data that Powell trotted out in the UN. "Curveball" was provided by Ahmed Chalabi - Judith Miller's friend. Remember the babies in incubators hoax back in 1991 - arranged by the same cast of characters.

[many a good man]

8. Group should be called "Widgy"

White House Iraq Disinformation Group(WHIDG)!

[Iowa]

17. Good one! This group reminds me of a bunch of limp-dick...

right-wingers trying to prove their manhood.

So how about "WEDGY"... White-house Erectile Dysfunction Group of Yahoos (WEDGY).

In the process of trying to prove their manhood they gave the entire world a big wedgy. As punishment they should all be hanged in the public square by the back of their shorts until dead (you know, like the bible says: an eye for an eye, and all that).

[Algorem]

16. got makings of a whole long frog-march march here,

when's SWAT team gonna hit White House and frog-atize these perpetraitors?

[indepat]

6. It was a C***** operation from the start: his fingerprints are indelible

[lovuian]

10. Scooter Libby confirmed the false story of Wilson's wife

sending wilson to Niger. And we already know that was a lie. He never denied that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA when he knew full well that he should have stated No so he can stop it but he didn't did he and he knew full well!!!

[Seabiscuit]

11. Since Bush's and Cheney's right hand men were up to their hips in this

doo doo, how plausible is it that Bush and Cheney had absolutely nothing to do with the felonious leak?

No more than it was for Nixon.

Time to start probing: "What did Bush and Cheney know and when did they know it?"

[Roy]

15. Very plausible....... maybe

Frankly, I've never thought that Bush nor Cheney has ever had anything to do with the day to day operation of the government. Figure heads the both of them, Bush for his family name and Cheney for his perceived "gravitas" to make up for Bush's obvious lack of... lack of... shit... everything.
Remember, this is how they pushed Bush in his first campaign saying essentially, that we know he is dumb as a rock, but he will surround himself with smart people.

When has either of these two expressed even a semblance of an original thought?

Howard Dean was right, these people know nothing about real work, most of them make a living by selling the power and influence they have earned mostly by being ready and willing to sacrifice anything and anyone while performing evil acts for a price.

[Toucano]

12. "I'm late for a meeting." "I've said too much" ?

In what language do those mean the same thing?

[ooglymoogly]

14. this is turning into a script for a b movie

and a comedy at that and it would be funny...except that thousands are dying...and that line or it could have been he was late or something is the best one of all.

[Iowa]

18. Yeah, I thought the same thing when I read that. (n/t)

[DFLer4edu]

19. Reporter Says Cheney Aide Was a Source

WASHINGTON - The vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was a source along with the president's chief political adviser for a Time story that identified a CIA officer, the magazine reporter said Sunday, further countering White House claims that neither aide was involved in the leak.

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My personal favorite though from the article was this:

In an effort to quell a chorus of calls to fire deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, Republicans said that Rove originally learned about Valerie Plame's identity from the news media. That exonerates Rove, the Republican Party chairman said, and Democrats should apologize.

But it is not clear that it was a journalist who first revealed the information to Rove.

A lawyer familiar with Rove's grand jury testimony said Sunday that Rove learned about the CIA officer either from the media or from someone in government who said the information came from a journalist. The lawyer spoke on condition of anonymity because the federal investigation is continuing.



DFLer4edu: As if learning it from a journalist makes it ok for him to leak to another journalist who was then going to make it national news.

[shraby]

20. If that's the case, who told the first journalist?

A jounalist DOESN'T have ANY security clearance to learn this information.

[sam sarrha]

21. info now saysit was Bu$h's Colon Pal who passed out the memo the day

after Wilson blew the whistle on them, people saw it in his hand on Air Force One.

[bucknaked]

22. Didn't we call it? Or what? Our predictions were always Rove and Libby!

A toast to our own clairvoyance!

[usregimechange]

23. "I've already said too much"

[converted_democrat]

24. Reporter Says Cheney Aide Was a Source (Libby)

WASHINGTON - The vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was a source along with the president's chief political adviser for a Time story that identified a CIA officer, the magazine reporter said Sunday, further countering White House claims that neither aide was involved in the leak.

In an effort to quell a chorus of calls to fire deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, Republicans said that Rove originally learned about Valerie Plame's identity from the news media. That exonerates Rove, the Republican Party chairman said, and Democrats should apologize.

But it is not clear that it was a journalist who first revealed the information to Rove.

A lawyer familiar with Rove's grand jury testimony said Sunday that Rove learned about the CIA officer either from the media or from someone in government who said the information came from a journalist. The lawyer spoke on condition of anonymity because the federal investigation is continuing.


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[jazzjunkysue]

25. The scary thing is, this is just one little drop of the niagra of lies

that this administration has manufactured and promoted. If I were a judge, looking at multiple indictments, I'd be thinking, "Holy shit. Where do we start, and when will it end?"

[Jack Rabbit]

27. (He goes into his Claude Rains imitation)

I'm shocked, shocked, I say . . .

If Rove and Libby knew, I'll be every bit as shocked to find out Bush and Cheney knew.