McClellan's non-denial exchange & Condi's

[grasswire]

Q: Scott, has there ever been an attempt or effort on the part of anyone here at the White House to discredit the reputations or reporting of former Ambassador Joe Wilson, his wife, or ABC correspondent Jeffrey Kofman?

MR. McCLELLAN: John, I think I answered that yesterday. That is not the way that this White House operates. That's not the way the President operates. And certainly, I first became aware of those news reports when we were contacted by reporters and the questions were raised. It's the first I had heard of those. No one would be authorized to do that within this White House. That is simply not the way we operate, and that's simply not the way the President operates.

(on edit: Kofman is the journalist who was spanked by the WH for the story about the low morale. So I'm modifying this thread.)

Condi's non-denial:

RICE: I know nothing of any such White House effort to reveal any of this, and it certainly would not be the way that the president would expect his White House to operate.

[FauxNewsBlues]

1. I had a thread up on this.

Kofman did a report on July 15th for ABC. He interviewed soldiers in the field in Iraq who bashed Rummy. The White House was pissed. Tried to leak to several people who turned them down, then to Drudge about the fact that the reporter is gay. Drudge made fun of them, because Drudge already knew Kofman was gay, because Kofman had outed himself in the Advocate. However, the leakers didn't know that Kofman didn't care about being outed. They tried to destroy his personal life over his report on ABC.

Later that week, Dick Durbin tried to get Wilson's letter studied by congress. WHite house communication leaked to reporters that Durbin was a leaker himself, and was being asked by multiple people to recuse himself from the intelligence committee as a security risk.

The reporters talked to Durbin to confirm and he struck back, even getting Bill Frist to defend him. He did not leak, was not asked by anybody to step off the committee.

All 3 leaks are related to criticism of the Iraq policy. Somebody was playing serious hardball, and broke the law at the White House.

[LittleApple81]

2. kick n/t

[grasswire]

3. I had forgotten who Kofman was...

....so I modified the headline and the first post.

[FauxNewsBlues]

4. Kick back up

Trifecta folks.

1 Plame
2 Kofman
3 Durbin

One week, 3 nasty leaks. pull all 3 threads and it will unravel.