Reporter Judith Miller testified Tuesday that former vice presidential aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby identified a CIA operative to her on two occasions on dates earlier than he has told investigators he first heard the information from another reporter...Emptywheel's speculative piece "What I think happened" strikes me as our best, most-informed guess as to the sequence of events.
Libby, then Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, told the FBI and a grand jury that he thought he was hearing Valerie Plame's CIA job for the first time from NBC's Tim Russert on July 10, 2003.
Five government officials, including ex-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, also have testified that they discussed Plame and her CIA job with Libby before July 10.
Earlier Tuesday, the jury saw notes Libby took on or about June 12 that indicated Cheney himself told Libby then that the war critic's wife worked at the CIA.
Increasingly, it is clear that the main actor in this conspiracy -- and the real target of Fitzgerald's probe -- is Dick Cheney. Everyone is writing Cheney pieces these days; I'll jump into the game soon. A common joke compares Cheney to Darth Vader -- but what, then, do we make of Bush? Which one is Emperor Palpatine and which one is the second in command?
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Everyone DOES seem to be writing about Cheney these days, which strikes me as odd. He is one of the most intensely disliked VPs in history, and shoots his "friends" in the face for sport. Seriously, what do the Democrats have to gain by these recent attacks? Probably not nearly as much as the neocons, who would like to put a likely successor in the White House.
Kim in PA
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