About the memo Gannon said appeared a week earlier in the WSJ?

[trumad]

When asked about the memo that he discussed with Joe Wilson, Gannon said that the existence of it was already published in the WSJ a week earlier. Is that true?

[Goldmund]

1. I'm wondering myself.

If you subscribe to WSJ, can you search archives?

[pk_du]

2. I believe this Walt Pinkus Story is the one referred to...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A46957-2003Jun11?language=printer

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CIA Did Not Share Doubt on Iraq Data
Bush Used Report Of Uranium Bid

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 12, 2003; Page A01

A key component of President Bush's claim in his State of the Union address last January that Iraq had an active nuclear weapons program -- its alleged attempt to buy uranium in Niger -- was disputed by a CIA-directed mission to the central African nation in early 2002, according to senior administration officials and a former government official. But the CIA did not pass on the detailed results of its investigation to the White House or other government agencies, the officials said.


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[DefenseLawyer]

4. That is a Post article isn't it?

not a Wall Street Journal article, and it doesn't reference an intelligence memo about Plame recommending Wilson, which is what Guckert is now trying to say he never actually saw but learned about from the WSJ.

[DefenseLawyer]

3. I caught that too

That is easily sourced, I am sure someone is on it. I have read more than I cared to about the whole affair and I don't recall any mention of a WSJ story. Can't say he is lying, but it is an easy lie to catch him in if he was.

[KoKo]

5. Anti-War. com has something about this...with snips from "FR" where

Gannon appears not to know about the WSJ article. I thought Cooper was feeding him lines and Guckert was just on there to get the WSJ article mentioned to throw the heat off his possible involvement with the bogus
Memo about Plame/Wilson. :shrug:

Here's a link and a snip...if anyone wants to check this out. It's an interesting article by Raimundo...

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Gannon: "I disagree with your characterization of the document itself, but that aside, I maintain that I am under no obligation whatsoever to reveal my sources. That is a fundamental element of maintaining a free press."

At this point, Gannon could easily have cited the Wall Street Journal piece. But he didn't. Instead, he reiterated the same point he made to the two FBI agents who supposedly questioned him. According to Gannon's account, he told them the same thing: he couldn't reveal his sources. A Gannon interview with Editor & Publisher reveals:

"He also threw into question media accounts suggesting that he had seen a classified CIA document critical to the Plame case, saying he had made references to the 'internal memo,' but adding, 'I never said I had it or had seen it.' But when asked if he had in fact seen it, he declined to say."

While Gannon denied he had been subpoenaed to appear before the grand jury, admitted that he'd been questioned by the FBI, and "hinted" that he had never seen the internal memo, he added:
"I am not going to speak to that. It goes to something of a nature I do not want to discuss."

more......

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=4879

[Monkie]

6. i dont understand the fuss with the wsj article,its from october 17

http://www.cryptome.org/plame-memo.htm