February 7, 2007

IF LIBBY JUST HADN'T LIED:

Is Everything We Know About Joe Wilson's Trip to Niger Wrong?: New evidence from the Libby trial -- evidence Senate investigators never saw -- could change the storyline (Byron York, 2/07/07, National Review)

If the timing spelled out in the new document is accurate -- if Wilson had already been picked for the task by February 14 -- the new evidence sheds a different light on the version of events given by Wilson himself in his book The Politics of Truth. In that, Wilson wrote about a meeting with CIA officials -- a meeting that took place on February 19, 2002 -- at which "I was asked if I would be willing to travel to Niger to check out the report in question." Perhaps Wilson was indeed asked to go to Niger at that meeting, but the newly-released CIA document suggests the agency settled on Wilson several days earlier.

The source familiar with the Senate Intelligence Committee's investigation says the committee was never given the second document, either.

Perhaps it will turn out that there is some mistake in the memos, or in the interpretation of them, and that the generally-accepted version of the story remains accurate. But if the story told in the newly-public memos is correct, our entire understanding of how the CIA leak affair began will have to change.


Are there really still people who don't get that the Plames ran a black op against their own elected government, which is why it was vital that she be outed as a CIA bureaucrat?

Posted by Orrin Judd at February 7, 2007 8:03 AM
Comments

OJ:

No one in the press is going to report it that way, because they were (are) part of the team. Russert and the David Gregory and the other MSM types involved aren't going to speak the simple truth - they don't want to be lampooned by the Right or chided by fools like Keith Olberman.

Let's hope Joe Wilson has to take the stand, based on what he told David Corn. Everything will unravel from there, and even the Times and the Post won't be able to kick up enough dust to cloud the truth.

And eventually, Plame herself will have to answer questions. Her friend Andrea Mitchell could get that process started.

Posted by: jim hamlen at February 7, 2007 10:32 AM

A political presecution, like Iran-Contra. Is there any doubt that it can be ended the same way, should it becme necessary?

Posted by: Lou Gots at February 7, 2007 12:46 PM

There is a better-than-even chance that media, CIA and possibly Powell/Armitage perfidy will be revealed to the broader public via this case. Never would have happened without the charges against Libby. Jes sayin.

Posted by: ghostcat at February 7, 2007 1:55 PM

ghost, I've been saying the same thing for years. All those media types hanging tough, going to jail, etc. so their hero Colin Powell isn't exposed as a traitor and back stabber.

Posted by: erp at February 7, 2007 2:26 PM

If Ollie hadn't taken the fence there'd have been no Iran-Contra case either.

Posted by: oj at February 7, 2007 4:59 PM

If the egg-suck Ollie hadn't run for Senate, Miller would still be Senator too.

Posted by: Bruno at February 8, 2007 12:03 AM
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