Secrets and Leaks - Accountabilty
Sun Jul 10, 2005 19:16
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If they can plausibly claim that they thought she was simply a paper-pusher, then the statute would not apply to them.
But I think any enterprising reporter will be able to see why this is almost certainly not true. A close look at the wording Novak used in his column and a careful review of previous Novak columns over the years shows he only ever uses the word 'operative' to refer to covert agents. And that's the word he used to refer to Plame.
So Novak knew she was covert. And that pretty clearly means his sources knew too. How else would he have found out?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006039
Secrets and Leaks
By Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff (With Tamara Lipper, Mark Hosenball, Richard Wolffe and John Barry in Washington) | Oct 13 '03
In Washington, so-called leak investigations--formal inquiries by the Justice Department into the publication of classified information--are like endless replays of the movie "Casablanca": the authorities round up the usual suspects, nothing much happens, and life goes on. Without leaks, arguably, the U.S. government could not function. Trial balloons could not be floated, political scores could not be settled, wrongs would go unexposed, policy could not be made. It is against the law to reveal government secrets that might harm national security, but as a practical matter, journalists (protected by the First Amendment) are very rarely pressed to reveal their sources. Leak investigations are launched about every other week in Washington, but only occasionally is the leaker caught, and it has been two decades since anyone was criminally punished.
It's not likely that anyone will go to jail for outing Valerie Plame Wilson as an undercover spy for the Central Intelligence Agency. But the leak--from unnamed "senior administration officials," allegedly in retribution for her husband's accusing the Bushies of "twisting" intelligence--has stirred a scandal that casts light on a dark side of the Bush administration. All presidents deplore leaks in the strongest terms, and then wink at (or, ......
Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative. Nonetheless, it is significant that Rove was speaking to Cooper before Novak's column appeared; in other words, before Plame's identity had been published. Fitzgerald has been looking for evidence that Rove spoke to other reporters as well. "Karl Rove has shared with Fitzgerald all the information he has about any potentially relevant contacts he has had with any reporters, including Matt Cooper," Luskin told NEWSWEEK.
A source close to Rove, who declined to be identified because he did not wish to run afoul of the prosecutor or government investigators, added that there was "absolutely no inconsistency" between Cooper's e-mail and what Rove has testified to during his three grand-jury appearances in the case. "A fair reading of the e-mail makes clear that the information conveyed was not part of an organized effort to disclose Plame's identity, but was an effort to discourage Time from publishing things that turned out to be false," the source said, referring to claims in circulation at the time that Cheney and high-level CIA officials arranged for Wilson's trip to Africa.
Fitzgerald is known as a tenacious, thorough prosecutor. He refused to comment, and it is not clear whether he is pursuing evidence that will result in indictments, or just tying up loose ends in a messy case. But the Cooper e-mail offers one new clue to the mystery of what Fitzgerald is probing—and provides a glimpse of what was unfolding at the highest levels as the administration defended a part of its case for going to war in Iraq.
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
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Matt Cooper's Source
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/
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HOT AUDIO.... CIA LEAK ... LONDON BOMBINGS BLACK OPS INFO:
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/shows/webcast/_JULY_A/_cloak_Ven_7_9_05.mp3
[LEAKGATE]
This White House Scandal Finally Tips the Scale!
WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY??
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate.htm
Leak of Identity of CIA Operative Valerie Plame:
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/iraq/documents.html
Now that we know that Karl Rove was involved in leaking Valerie Plame's identity and her role at CIA before the information had appeared in Robert Novak's column, attention
will now inevitably turn to whether Rove (and whoever else was leaking) knew Plame was covert.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006039
OPERATION LONDON BRIDGE: HOT... RADIO PROGRAM... BLACK OPS
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/shows/webcast/_JULY_A/_cloak_Ven_7_9_05.mp3
"Operation London Bridge"
NETWORK THIS TO EVERYBODY
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THIS NEXT WEEK DOO DOO IS GOING TO HIT THE WALL!!
But I think any enterprising reporter will be able to see why this is almost certainly not true. A close look at the wording Novak used in his column and a careful review of previous Novak columns over the years shows he only ever uses the word 'operative' to refer to covert agents. And that's the word he used to refer to Plame.
So Novak knew she was covert. And that pretty clearly means his sources knew too. How else would he have found out?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006039
Secrets and Leaks
By Evan Thomas and Michael Isikoff (With Tamara Lipper, Mark Hosenball, Richard Wolffe and John Barry in Washington) | Oct 13 '03
In Washington, so-called leak investigations--formal inquiries by the Justice Department into the publication of classified information--are like endless replays of the movie "Casablanca": the authorities round up the usual suspects, nothing much happens, and life goes on. Without leaks, arguably, the U.S. government could not function. Trial balloons could not be floated, political scores could not be settled, wrongs would go unexposed, policy could not be made. It is against the law to reveal government secrets that might harm national security, but as a practical matter, journalists (protected by the First Amendment) are very rarely pressed to reveal their sources. Leak investigations are launched about every other week in Washington, but only occasionally is the leaker caught, and it has been two decades since anyone was criminally punished.
It's not likely that anyone will go to jail for outing Valerie Plame Wilson as an undercover spy for the Central Intelligence Agency. But the leak--from unnamed "senior administration officials," allegedly in retribution for her husband's accusing the Bushies of "twisting" intelligence--has stirred a scandal that casts light on a dark side of the Bush administration. All presidents deplore leaks in the strongest terms, and then wink at (or, ......
Nothing in the Cooper e-mail suggests that Rove used Plame's name or knew she was a covert operative. Nonetheless, it is significant that Rove was speaking to Cooper before Novak's column appeared; in other words, before Plame's identity had been published. Fitzgerald has been looking for evidence that Rove spoke to other reporters as well. "Karl Rove has shared with Fitzgerald all the information he has about any potentially relevant contacts he has had with any reporters, including Matt Cooper," Luskin told NEWSWEEK.
A source close to Rove, who declined to be identified because he did not wish to run afoul of the prosecutor or government investigators, added that there was "absolutely no inconsistency" between Cooper's e-mail and what Rove has testified to during his three grand-jury appearances in the case. "A fair reading of the e-mail makes clear that the information conveyed was not part of an organized effort to disclose Plame's identity, but was an effort to discourage Time from publishing things that turned out to be false," the source said, referring to claims in circulation at the time that Cheney and high-level CIA officials arranged for Wilson's trip to Africa.
Fitzgerald is known as a tenacious, thorough prosecutor. He refused to comment, and it is not clear whether he is pursuing evidence that will result in indictments, or just tying up loose ends in a messy case. But the Cooper e-mail offers one new clue to the mystery of what Fitzgerald is probing—and provides a glimpse of what was unfolding at the highest levels as the administration defended a part of its case for going to war in Iraq.
© 2005 Newsweek, Inc.
=========================================
Matt Cooper's Source
What Karl Rove told Time magazine's reporter.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8525978/site/newsweek/
------------------------------------------------------
HOT AUDIO.... CIA LEAK ... LONDON BOMBINGS BLACK OPS INFO:
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/shows/webcast/_JULY_A/_cloak_Ven_7_9_05.mp3
[LEAKGATE]
This White House Scandal Finally Tips the Scale!
WHERE IS THE ACCOUNTABILITY??
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/leakgate.htm
Leak of Identity of CIA Operative Valerie Plame:
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/iraq/documents.html
Now that we know that Karl Rove was involved in leaking Valerie Plame's identity and her role at CIA before the information had appeared in Robert Novak's column, attention
will now inevitably turn to whether Rove (and whoever else was leaking) knew Plame was covert.
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_07_10.php#006039
OPERATION LONDON BRIDGE: HOT... RADIO PROGRAM... BLACK OPS
http://www.cloakanddagger.de/shows/webcast/_JULY_A/_cloak_Ven_7_9_05.mp3
"Operation London Bridge"
NETWORK THIS TO EVERYBODY
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THIS NEXT WEEK DOO DOO IS GOING TO HIT THE WALL!!
- Bush aide Rove was Time reporter's source-Newsweek — Sun Jul 10 20:28
- Time magazine talked to Bush's guru for Plame story. — Sun Jul 10 21:58
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