Plame Investigation: Rove and Libby in Deadly Dog Fight

[rodeodance]

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/001310.php

Beneath the Surface on Plame Investigation: Rove and Libby in Deadly Dog Fight


March 27, 2006
Beneath the Surface on Plame Investigation: Rove and Libby in Deadly Dog Fight

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This just hit the internet at Raw Story, and TWN has confirmed the essential points through a source close to Rove:

According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush's senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent "discovery" of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

Rove has been in the crosshairs of Fitzgerald's investigation into the outing of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame Wilson for what some believe to be retaliation against her husband, former U.S. Ambassador to Gabon, Joseph Wilson. Wilson had been an ardent critic of pre-war Iraq intelligence.

While these sources did not provide any details regarding what type of arrangements Rove's attorney Robert Luskin may have made with the special prosecutor's office, if any, they were able to provide some information regarding what Rove imparted to Fitzgerald's team. The individuals declined to go on the record out of concern for their jobs.......

[Stephanie]

1. allow me

:loveya:

[stepnw1f]

2. lol... you're too cute

[rodeodance]

3. it was convenient how Rove suddently 'found' the emails!

...Rove giving Patrick Fitzgerald a path into 250 pages of deleted and/or previously unprovided electronic communications from and within the Vice President's office must give serious heartburn to Scooter Libby's defense team, being paid for in part by this cabal of supporters.

Fitzgerald, as I have written before, is setting a high standard for how public officials should conduct themselves.

We have about nine months before the Scooter Libby trial starts. The real question is whether Fitzgerald will widen the pool of those charged with crimes -- and it's still too early to tell.

-- Steve Clemons
Posted by steve at March 27, 2006 02:15 PM

[BrklynLiberal]

4. i hope they rip each others' throats out.

[Stevendsmith]

5. We have to wait nine freaking months for the Libby trial

Plamegate develops in geologic time.

This wait is driving me batshit.

[pacalo]

6. Down below, in the comments section, Steve Clemons made these

interesting comments to "Jeff":

Jeff -- thanks for your note and query. Sorry I had not seen your earlier item. You are watching this in great detail, and that's great. What I confirmed through a source close to Rove is that he was cooperating enthusiastically with Fitzgerald -- and my source says that Rove did help unravel the previoiusly undisclosed email communication in the VP's office. I don't have any information, however, that those emails further indict Libby. That's speculation on my part -- and as I noted, I suggested that the provision of many more communications, partly at the hand of Rove, must be causing the Libby defense team grief.

(snip)

On the subject of the Dana Priest/Mike Allen source, I have to go back and see what I wrote exactly. But I ran over a roster of potential sources for them -- and had included Armitage. There is more to this story that I'd rather not publicly write, but perhaps another time. I also speculated in that first post, that whomever was their "friendly source" was probably also known to Fitzgerald. The reason for my speculation was that neither Priest nor Mike Allen had been called before the grand jury -- and thus I speculated that the source was known to Fitzgerald. That doesn't necessarily mean that Fitzgerald's insider source is the same person; it just suggested that whomever was the Priest/Allen source was probably known to Fitzgerald. It may or may not be the same person as Fitzgerald's alleged insider. I suspect it is.