"thunder" wrote in message
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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 21:25:52 +0000, NOYB wrote:


It is certainly appearing as if Fitzgerald jumped the gun on his
indictment. 2 years and a unlimited budget to investigate this thing, and
he gets his sole indictment wrong!

Really? Let's see how it fits, Woodward was told about Plame in mid-June,
2003. In Fitzgerald's indictment, on May 29, 2003, Libby was informed
that Wilson was the former ambassador who took the Niger trip. The clock
starts ticking.




On June 11, or 12, an Under Secretary of State advised Libby that Plame
worked at the CIA.

On June 11, a CIA officer advised Libby that Plame worked at the CIA.

On June 12, Cheney told Libby that Plame worked at CIA.

On June 12, the Pincus' article was published.



On June 12th, Walter Pincus published an article about Wilson's trip. The
source for his article was Wilson (as conceded and referenced in the Senate
Select Committee on Intelligence report). But remember that Kristof
published an article on May 6th about the Niger trip...and *his* source was
likely Wilson as well.

Libby didn't learn about Wilson's wife until June 11th or 12th...so he
certainly wasn't the source of any Plame leak that may have occurred to the
press prior to when Pincus's article went to press.

I believe that while Wilson was telling the Niger fairy tale story to
Kristof and Pincus, Wilson outed his own wife as early as May 2003.

But Pincus denied under oath that he knew Plame's identity prior to Novak's
article. Of course, Pincus's testimony (which was already suspect because
of the fact that he used Plame's husband as his source) is shot to **** by
Woodward's testimony...which said that he discussed Plame's identity with
Pincus in mid-June.

Any way you look at it, Walter Pincus is lying. So now ask yourself "why?"






On June 14, Libby discussed Plame with a CIA briefer.




On June 19, the New Republic publishes an article about the Niger
documents.

On June 23, Libby meets with Judith Miller and informs her that Wilson's
wife "might" work at the CIA.


Now, tell me again how Fitzgerald has it wrong. Woodward's timing seems
to fit rather well with the doing of the day.

Woodward knew about Plame sometime before Libby spoke with Judith Miller.
Pincus knew because Woodward told him (and I believe Wilson told Pincus
too). If Woodward knew, and Pincus knew, it's safe to say that "all the
reporters in Washington" knew. And in his testimony, Libby said that
Russert told Libby that "all the reporters in Washington" knew. It appears
that Libby was telling the truth.