Libby Lawyers Finger Powell, Armitage & Grossman-Blame "Infighting"

[kpete]

Issue Date: April 3-9, 2006, Posted On: 4/3/2006

Libby lawyers finger top State Dept. leaders for CIA leak


Former Secretary of State Colin Powell (Lawrence Jackson/AP)

Attorneys for former Vice President Chief of Staff Lewis “Scooter” Libby say one of three senior State Department officials was the source of a leak that exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame.

They say the officials are: former Secretary of State Colin Powell, former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman

The attorneys for Mr. Libby plan to argue that a senior official in the State Department leaked Mrs. Plame's identity amid the administration's defense of the U.S. failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. The attorneys have sought to highlight heavy infighting between White House staff and the CIA and State Department amid criticism by Mrs. Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson

"The media conflagration ignited by the failure to find WMD in Iraq and in part by Mr. Wilson's criticism of the administration, led officials within the White House, the State Department and the CIA to blame each other, publicly and in private, for faulty pre-war intelligence about Iraq's WMD capabilities," papers filed by Mr. Libby's defense team said.

more confusion at:
http://www.insightmag.com/Media/MediaManager/libby2.htm

[Mountainman]

1. It's hard for me to buy this story. They all knew that the intelligence

was being cooked up. How could they blame each other for something they were all in on?This sounds like a bunch of school kids who got caught doing something they shouldn't have and are saying "he did it".

[DLnyc]

2. Libby: "I'll find the real killers if it takes me the rest of my life"

Or is he planning to take over Fitz's job?

Sounds like the moves of a desperate man.

[peacetalksforall]

3. How common was it for Powell and staff to leak anything? What does

their rap sheet look like?

[stop the bleeding]

4. Note to effing Fibby it does not matter who leaked Plame - FIBBY's charges

are OOJ, Perjury and lying.

The Queen of Sheeba could have been the leaker - so these filings by Fibby are a moot point for this RW website to make.

It's always good to see how the enemy is spinning this.

thanks kpete, CA countryside treating you well?

[kpete]

6. loved it

mustard, poppies, lupine, cows, grapes and every shade of green...

Funny article from Insight Mag - sounds to me like Fitz has got them all in a crockpot...

Slow cooking - with LOTs of habaneros...

They are making very little sense..

My take is - EVERY Man/Woman for themselves...

[JDPriestly]

5. John Hannah leaked per Truthout

Fitzgerald Knew Identity of Leaker From Start
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Monday 03 April 2006

The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to investigate the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson found out the identity of the Bush administration official who disclosed her undercover status to syndicated columnist Robert Novak just two months after the probe began.

But in early February 2004, a month after he started the investigation, Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald shifted gears and started to build a perjury and obstruction of justice case against White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby according to several attorneys close to the investigation.

. . .
The official has been identified by attorneys and four current and former White House officials as John Hannah, a senior national security aide on loan to Vice President Dick Cheney from then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs John Bolton.
. . . .
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040306Z.shtml

[LastDemocratInSC]

7. Perhaps more interesting than the news item is the source - Sun Yung Moon

There were earlier sources on this story today but this is in one of the official propaganda magazines of the Sun Yung Moon organization. Insight Magazine is owned and controlled by Moon. If the Moonies are coming out with this then perhaps their interests are no longer being served by the BFEE and they are looking for a change.

A work staunch conservative work colleague was praising the Washington Times a few weeks ago. I pointed out that it is a Moonie newspaper, has been subsidized by Moon from its beginning, and has never once earned a profit. My friend seemed surprised. He had never heard of this. What is wrong with these people? How can anyone be so uninformed?

On edit after the 4th glass of wine ... something in the 1st paragraph, or maybe the 2nd.