Could this be the SOURCE of rove's & others' info re Plame?

[AnnInLa]

from Atrios:

Spikey Mikey

Inside Politics today:


ISIKOFF: But the problem that people in the White House, Rove among them, may have is how did they know that Valerie Plame, or Wilson's wife worked at the CIA? What we do know is there was a classified State Department report that said this, that was taken by Secretary of State Powell with him on the trip to Africa that President Bush was then on, and many senior White House aides were on.

That classified State Department report appears to have been -- or may well have been the source for the information that Rove and others were then dishing out to reporters. And if that's the case, there still may be -- we don't know yet, but there still may be an instance where classified information was provided to reporters.

more at http://www.atrios.blogspot.com

[Patty Diana]

1. Here's an earlier thread where Powell had CIA dossiers on bush

Africa trip__ cnn transcript in it. ROVE WAS THERE http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1920459

[peacetalksforall]

2. Remember...the call to the reporters came from AF1 going to or

coming from the Bush trip to Africa.

So now we know that Powell was on the aircraft?

What proceeded that trip?

Tenet claims he as ignorant of it all?

Why did Bush fire Tenet soon after?

Was Cheney closeted in his bunker during this period? Did Mary Matalin still work for him?

Where was Armitage?

There is probably only one suppostion that can be made and that is that it wasn't the second in charge at the CIA after Tenet was fired - the one the Bush whouse did not like and who was eventually passed over for wild man Goss.