Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward has been deposed by Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald in the Plame Name Game investigation. Woodward has testified that a “senior administration official” informed him of Plame’s identity and her work for the CIA a month before Novak blew Plame’s cover.
Reportedly the “senior administration official” informed Fitzgerald investigators of his conversation with Woodward on November 3, shortly after Libby was indicated. The official apparently released Woodward to testify but to release his identity publicly.
So, did the subject senior administration official begin feeling heat and decided it best to fess up? Is the official now cooperating with Fitzgerald?
My guesses as to who the senior administration official might be, and they are purely wild ass guesses, are Ari Fleischer, former press secretary or Bush himself. Remember, Woodward interviewed Bush extensively, and presumably Fleischer as well, while researching for his book recently on Bush and his administration’s march to war.
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It will not do that Bush released the name - that could mean there was no criminal intent. Cheney releases the name to Bush who is too dumb to realize that it is a crime to further release the name to the press........... I remembered that Woodward was doing the book on Bush and have been confused since his acknowledgment today. Woodward was on Larry King a couple weeks ago and denied that he had further inside information on the Plame disclosure. Seems he was lying. Sad - he has done some good work in the past.
NL
Amigo,
I know you are not receiving "The Daily Show", but Jon Stewart is having a blast with the current events, especially VP Dick Wad.
DX
Cheney is certainly providing Stewart with plenty of material.
There is something completely pathetic about Cheney, Bush, and the rest protesting that democrats are "rewriting" the "history" of the march to the invasion and subjugation of Iraq.
Cheney's lies, and those of the rest of the slimy bastards, are well documented. A fact now understood by 65% of the population.
Nothing the lying crooks now say, as part of the Rovian counter attack, will convince anyone but the FAUX News/Limbaugh dumb asses who don't need convincing anyway.
NL,
You're right and I think I'm wrong on both my guesses. Raw Story is saying it's Hadley.
Hadley, a committed neofascist, as you will recall was placed by Director of Transition, Dick (I favor torture, can't help but lie, and could give a shit about the U. S. public as long as Haliburton and I are making a killing) Cheney, as deputy to NSD Rice to make sure Condoleeza didn't interfere with his presidential plans. He needn't have bothered, though, as "Mother Hen" Rice, in the Colin Powell tradition, is not the type to make waves, even over illegalities.
Meanwhile, I see the Post's executive editor says the Post will consier naming Woodard's source if its other reporter independently learn of his identity.
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