editor and publisher response to NYTimes today

[medeak]

a good one:

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/pressingissues_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000979865

[Garbo 2004]

1. E&P's had some great commentary. From the article:

Who is the source for all the press revelations today? Likely not a new ”Deep Throat.” The New York Times opened by calling him someone who had been briefed on all this, the AP raised that to someone in the “legal profession,” while the Washington Post went all the way and called him a “lawyer.” Speculation focuses on Rove's attorney, who if this is true, probably thinks most of this helps his client's cause. But then, such things took dramatic turns back in the Watergate days when documentary evidence, in the form of tapes, documents and phone calls came out.

And as a sidelight: If Rove is telling the truth, and he heard about Plame first from another journalist before talking to Novak, who was that reporter? Rove apparently claimed amnesia on that matter before the grand jury. I can think of one prominent candidate, and probably you can too.

[ironman202]

2. OK...I'll bite...who is it?

[Garbo 2004]

5. E&P has speculated before and it's my pet theory...who is the

only reporter, whose "specialty" is supposed to be Iraq and WMD, who has inside Administration connections since she was their megaphone in the lead up to war, serving time in the slammer for refusing to testify? And who, interesting, never wrote a word on the Plame story, although WMD was her beat? Was she distancing herself from any public involvement in the story?

From my other post in another thread: The info was laundered via the press. When Cooper called Libby, Cooper mentioned that he'd heard that Wilson's wife was CIA. Libby said he'd heard that too and that he heard it from the media.

Wilson's op ed appeared in the Times on July 6, 2003. Novak talks to Rove on July 8 per the NYT/WaPo articles? Rove talks to Cooper on July 11? Novak's column naming Plame is published on July 14.

Meanwhile Judy Miller is in the slammer because Fitzgerald wants her to testify to conversations she had "on or about" July 6, the day Wilson's NYT op ed appeared. He already knows the gov't official she spoke to (who reportedly came forward on his own, which likely means the person testified and dropped Miller's name in his own testimony). Fitzgerald wants Miller's testimony about the discussion.

And the language used in the story peddled to Cooper by Rove (and Novak to Wilson's friend he met in the street) mirrors information (some of it incorrect, like the claim Plame sent Wilson and/or authorized his Niger trip) that was contained in a classified State Dept report/file. A classified file that apparently was on board Air Force 1 during a trip to Africa during this time frame. http://dailykos.com/story/2005/7/13/141246/050 Fitzgerald/grand jury last year asked for materials, phone logs from AF1 during that trip:

"The subpoenaed information regarding telephone calls to and from Air Force One, sources said, covered July 7-12, while the president was on a trip to Africa. The requested transcript was from a briefing during that trip as well." http://edition.cnn.com/2004/LAW/03/05/cia.leak.probe /

Just a thought. :)

[Laughing Mirror]

3. Plamegate, of course

Will Alberto Gonzales get embroiled in this even before he makes it to the Supreme Court? Is former spokesman/chief spinner Ari Fleischer endangered?

The questions on everybody's lips.


Greg Mitchell is always smart and funny. Does anybody know where the John Dean column he referred to is?

[Laughing Mirror]

6. John Dean's article is here

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20050715.html

[peacetalksforall]

4. Does anyone have an updated chronological list of events in 2003

including the trip to Africa and when that fits in?