Libby knew CIA spy by name before it was published, filing shows

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http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/politics/13979500.htm

Libby knew CIA spy by name before it was published, filing shows

New York Daily News

WASHINGTON - Handwritten notes taken by the CIA show Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide knew the name of CIA spy Valerie Plame Wilson a month before her cover was blown.

It appears to be the first known document in the hands of prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that
directly contradicts Lewis "Scooter" Libby's claim he learned from reporters in July 2003 that Valerie Wilson was a CIA employee.

...

Her husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, was a Bush critic dispatched to Niger by the CIA in 2002 to see if Iraq had shopped for uranium. "A CIA employee assigned to provide daily intelligence briefs to the Vice President and Libby has handwritten notes indicating that Libby referred to `Joe Wilson' and `Valerie Wilson' by those names in conversation with the briefer on June 14, 2003," Fitzgerald wrote in a recently unsealed brief.

The filing suggests Cheney may have been present when Libby griped to his CIA briefer about agency officials slamming Cheney in the press.

[acmejack]

1. Oh my!

Liars in the (mis)Administration, I am flabbergasted!

[KansDem]

9. Worst yet, liars who live a paper trail...

"Worst" for them, of course...

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. "Wilson, was a Bush critic dispatched to Niger"

Wilson was not a Bush critic when he went to Niger.

[Just Me]

3. If every lie could be prosecuted, this whole administration would be,....

,...in a secure penitentiary for several life sentences.

If only.

[H2O Man]

4. " The tensions between

the White House and the CIA had been rising steadily in the months before the Iraq invasion, as CIA analysts complained about evidence being distorted or ignored and the White House pushed back with complaints about the quality of the intel they were getting. 'I know the analyst who was subjected to withering questioning on the Iraq-al-Qaeda links by Libby with the Vice President sitting there,' says a CIA analyst. ..." Time;"The Rove Problem"; 7-25-05; page 29.

DUers interested in accessing court documents not found on Mr. Fitzgerald's site can google:

CR. NO. 05-394 (RBW)

[NVMojo]

5. an asshat speaks again! Liars!! All of them!

[UpInArms]

6. from the Guardian - July 17, 2003

Julian Borger reports on the shadow rightwing intelligence network set up in Washington to second-guess the CIA and deliver a justification for toppling Saddam Hussein by force

The president's most trusted adviser, Mr Cheney, was at the shadow network's sharp end. He made several trips to the CIA in Langley, Virginia, to demand a more "forward-leaning" interpretation of the threat posed by Saddam. When he was not there to make his influence felt, his chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was. Such hands-on involvement in the processing of intelligence data was unprecedented for a vice-president in recent times, and it put pressure on CIA officials to come up with the appropriate results.

Another frequent visitor was Newt Gingrich, the former Republican party leader who resurfaced after September 11 as a Pentagon "consultant" and a member of its unpaid defence advisory board, with influence far beyond his official title.

An intelligence official confirmed Mr Gingrich made "a couple of visits" but said there was nothing unusual about that.

Rick Tyler, Mr Gingrich's spokesman, said: "If he was at the CIA he was there to listen and learn, not to persuade or influence."

Mr Gingrich visited Langley three times before the war, and according to accounts, the political veteran sought to browbeat analysts into toughening up their assessments of Saddam's menace.

[MADem]

7. That clunking sound you hear is the sound of Libby, and quite possibly

SureShot Dick, being tossed under a bus....

[0007]

8. I hear that ol' dead eye is gonna take it on the Arthur Duffy after

the Mid term election.

[Javaman]

10. Do you think Libby's pants will finally burst into flames now?nt