Two Reporters on Charlie Rose last night: "Very Serious"

[wurzel]

Keil and Roberts explained the importance of this State Dept memo. It had information about Wilson and his wife. Ari was actually seen reading it by one of these reporters aboard AF One. Later Ari bad mouths Wilson but says nothing about his wife. Twenty four hours later Novak has his conversation with Rove. Question. Was the contents of this memo faxed or phoned to Rove's office from AF One? Both these Reporters think this is "very serious".

[spooked]

1. Mmmm...That would explain why Fitzgerald is interested in calls from

Air Force One.

"WASHINGTON -- The federal grand jury probing the leak of a covert CIA
officer's identity has subpoenaed records of Air Force One telephone
calls in the week before the officer's name was published in a column
in July, according to documents obtained by Newsday."


http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin200507181123.asp
(This article is a real hatchet job on Wilson and Plame, btw)

"The New York Times now reports that a State Department memorandum identifying Plame was circulated on Air Force One and perhaps other places. Ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell was reportedly seen on the plane with the memo in his hand."

[wurzel]

2. So Rove may be caught lying to a Grand Jury.

[maddezmom]

3. Rove-Bush Conspiracy Noose Tightens (Ongoing Conspiracy)

Despite a furious Republican counter-attack to save Karl Rove, new evidence points to George W. Bush’s political guru having joined in a White House criminal conspiracy to punish former Ambassador Joseph Wilson for criticizing Bush’s use of intelligence on Iraq.

A key Republican defense of Rove has been that the White House deputy chief of staff only recycled rumors from reporters in 2003 when he told other reporters about Wilson’s wife, Valerie Plame, and her covert identity as a CIA officer who worked to contain the spread of weapons of mass destruction.

But two new facts contradict that assertion and show that Rove was coordinating his leaks about Plame with officials in Bush’s National Security Council and Vice President Dick Cheney’s office.


~snip~

What’s been overlooked, however, is another part of Cooper’s account. Cooper said his notes reveal that Rove then added that “material was going to be declassified in the coming days that would cast doubt on Wilson’s mission and his findings.” In ending the conversation, Rove said, “I’ve already said too much,” according to Cooper.

Rove’s assertion that he knew about plans to declassify material on Wilson indicates that Rove was not just a loose-lipped talker repeating stuff he’d heard from reporters, but he was a participant in internal White House discussions about how to counteract Wilson’s criticisms by releasing then-secret information.

more:
http://sync.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x140645

[wurzel]

6. "Plans to declassify material on Wilson"?

Is there any proof of that? This thing looks like a tarbaby.

[kikiek]

5. Hatchet job? That writer sounds unstable. His writing rivals L Ron Hubbard

[indepat]

4. So serious even the most ardent true-believers will demand accountability