Questions of Who Told What to Whom, and When, May Be Crucial in Leak Case

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/16reporters.html


By ADAM LIPTAK
Published: July 16, 2005

Although enormous attention has recently been focused on the question of what information might have passed from government sources in Washington to reporters, the case involving the disclosure of a covert C.I.A. operative's identity has also pointed out that information sometimes flows the other way.


The President: Bush Stays Mum on Rove, Who Stays by His Side (July 16, 2005)

This week a person who was formally briefed on the matter said that Karl Rove, the senior adviser to President Bush, talked about a C.I.A. operative with the columnist Robert D. Novak before Mr. Novak wrote about the case on July 14, 2003.

But the person said Mr. Rove told Mr. Novak that he had already heard parts of the story from other journalists but had not heard the operative's name, Valerie Wilson.

In the investigation into the disclosure of her identity, the question of who told what to whom, and when, may have legal significance. The investigation started as an inquiry into whether the two officials who shared information with Mr. Novak for his column identifying Ms. Wilson violated the law. One of those officials is now known to be Mr. Rove.

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1. So Novak claims two higher up whouse officials told him.

Who's up...who's down. Who's in...who's out. Who lies...who lies more. We need the sign in Times Square for our lie update. It's countdown time.

Perhaps they plan to tell so many of them that the country will throw up their hands. In the meantime... the spotlight is off Cheney and Bush. - Tenet, Ashcroft, Rice, Powell.

Right wing media is gloating. The right wing has dug up somebody to counter Larry Johnson. There is ample army to spew the talking points. All's well in their world.

Dis-reality reigns for now.