"Key question ... why did these administration officials lie so overtly"

[understandinglife]

On July 31, 2005, Think Progress posted a thread entitled "Leaking Scandal Encircles More Administration Officials Than Previously Believed":

Today, Time magazine reports that White House official Karl Rove and others may have learned “about Plame from within the Administration rather than from media contacts.”

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Now we’re learning that Rove, Libby, and others learned of Plame’s identity well before journalists knew who she was. The newest information asserts that White House officials learned of Plame after Walter Pincus of the Washington Post wrote an article on June 12, 2003 detailing evidence that existed prior to the State of the Union which should have prevented the President from suggesting Iraq was acquiring uranium from Africa. This information corroborates Robert Novak’s claim in his infamous July 14, 2003 column that outed Plame which said the White House sprung into action after “Walter Pincus revealed in the Washington Post June 12 that an unnamed retired diplomat had given the CIA a negative report.”

More at the link (including a bunch of interesting comments):

http://thinkprogress.org/2005/07/31/growing-scandal

I'm posting this as an introduction to a series of DU threads that some of you may find interesting to visit as you contemplate Judith Miller in front of a Grand Jury that Mr Cooper found very inquisitive!

Before July 31, 2005

O'Donnell: "All the judges who have seen the prosecutor’s secret evidence firmly believe he is pursuing a very serious crime, and they have done everything they can to help him get an indictment."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4041542

Matt Cooper's Source: What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4061316

Enough. To have ever mentioned "Valerie Plame" and "CIA" in ANY WAY, automatically exposed her to every foreign intelligence service.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4084675

"Either way, the president has painted himself into a corner."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4148545

Froomkin: What Did the President Know? --- Finally ...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4188467


After July 31, 2005

Rep Conyers: "How were the intelligence and facts being fixed?"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4235387

The Nation: Anonymous Lies From Anonymous Sources

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4268355

Desperately duplicitous Sulzberger rants behind the NYT "Editorial" banner

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=4496523

Oh, and Ms Miller, this is just one tiny part of your lethal legacy as propagandist-in-chief for Bush and his neoconster regime:




Peace.

[bullimiami]

1. they are pathological liars. rove, bush, texas politics, oil money,

corporate greed. its a cesspool.

notice whenever something negative happens, even something small, take for instance when bush shot the bird to the newspool, the first instinct is to lie. they lie, then they modify the lie, then they lie again and eventually perhaps if they feel the pressure, on page A31, there will be an admission that the story was indeed valid to start with.

every response begins with a lie, from the insignificant to war, to torture, to katrina, all lies, all the time. pathological.

[BeFree]

3. It sounds like, oh, I dunno, maybe...

A Culture of Corruption?

[understandinglife]

4. Most definitely -- Loud and Clear!

Peace.

[DemReadingDU]

2. Recommended

nice history of links, thanks!

[seemslikeadream]

5. Judy, Judy, Judy how heavy is thou bucket