When They Knew

[SHRED]

The noose tightens a bit.

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Sunday, Jul. 31, 2005
When They Knew
Sources indicate that Rove may have learned Valerie Plame's identity from within the Administration rather than from media contacts
By MASSIMO CALABRESI

As the investigation tightens into the leak of the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, sources tell TIME some White House officials may have learned she was married to former ambassador Joseph Wilson weeks before his July 6, 2003, Op-Ed piece criticizing the Administration. That prospect increases the chances that White House official Karl Rove and others learned about Plame from within the Administration rather than from media contacts. Rove has told investigators he believes he learned of her directly or indirectly from reporters, according to his lawyer.

> http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1088666,00.html

[sundancekid]

1. this is the delicious graph that would clearly lead to Bolton and to NSC

... in short, we will discover that they were all in it together - BogusPotus, FukkaDick, Scooter, Rovester, Pentagon OSP/MuffetMiller, Nuts&Bolton via INR, Hadley/Lice, and it DOES spread across the administration: Smirk's WhoreHouse, Pantygone, State and NSC ... I continue to say that John Dean is SO correct: Worse Than Watergate

<snip> from same source as OP

The previously undisclosed fact gathering began in the first week of June 2003 at the CIA, when its public-affairs office received an inquiry about Wilson's trip to Africa from veteran Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus. That office then contacted Plame's unit, which had sent Wilson to Niger, but stopped short of drafting an internal report. The same week, Under Secretary of State Marc Grossman asked for and received a memo on the Wilson trip from Carl Ford, head of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research. Sources familiar with the memo, which disclosed Plame's relationship to Wilson, say Secretary of State Colin Powell read it in mid-June.
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