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      Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak

      Posted by Billbar from MSNBC

      The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14, 2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."

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    • A Libby Pardon for Christmas?

      Posted by Billbar from Antiwar

      The seemingly unstoppable imminence of his trial isn't just a problem for Libby; it's an Excedrin Extra Strength-sized headache for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their entire senior staff, not to mention the Republican Party. Once the trial begins, the administration will have little or no control over the proceedings. Trials are not conducive to spin. Spin requires secrecy; trials, on the other hand, are decidedly public.

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      Secret Papers Could Halt CIA Case

      Posted by Billbar from Washington Post

      Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff intends to load up his criminal trial with information about nine national security matters, the names of foreign leaders and details about various terrorist groups, according to court filings in the Valerie Plame leak case. The papers filed this week hint at what has been taking place behind closed doors as Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald tries to limit the amount of classified data that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is permitted to use at his trial, scheduled for January. The danger for prosecutors is that the sheer volume and sensitivity of the classified information Libby wants to introduce could scuttle the trial. Once the judge identifies classified information Libby is entitled to present, U.S. intelligence agencies must rule on whether the secrets can be declassified. The trial would collapse if the intelligence agencies refuse to declassify the information.

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    • Leopold: FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald

      Posted by Billbar from Truth Out

      Whether Rove and Libby deceived investigators is being revisited because of recent news reports that have suggested they are innocent victims of an overzealous prosecutor. Reports published over the past two weeks have identified former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, a "moderate" who dissented from Bush's Iraq plans, as the administration official who is said to have first leaked Plame's identity to syndicated columnist Robert Novak. Some editorials have opined that the revelation that Armitage was supposedly Novak's primary source clears Rove and Libby of potential wrongdoing in the matter. Rove spoke to Novak about Plame the same day Armitage did, and there has not been documentary proof to show that Armitage's conversation with Novak preceded Rove's.

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    • The Armitage Red Herring

      Posted by Billbar from Motherjones

      The very significant news about Armitage’s role in all of this is but one strand in a many-tentacled scandal that has led, among other places, to the office of the Vice President and to the President himself. Attempts to portray this news otherwise are just the latest effort by the right to mute the scandal, which has included questioning whether Plame was really covert and not just a Langley office hand.

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    • What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA

      Posted by Billbar from The Nation

      In the spring of 2002 Dick Cheney made one of his periodic trips to CIA headquarters. Though Cheney was already looking toward war, the officers of the agency's Joint Task Force on Iraq--part of the Counterproliferation Division of the agency's clandestine Directorate of Operations--were frantically toiling away in the basement, mounting espionage operations to gather information on the WMD programs Iraq might have. The JTFI was trying to find evidence that would back up the White House's assertion that Iraq was a WMD danger. Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.

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    Billbar comments on:

    A Libby Pardon for Christmas?

    More here.

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    7:10 am 10/13/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Armitage admits being CIA leaker

    Well, what with Michael Isikoff's new book (http://www.newscloud.com/read/73105/) and all, he had to 'fess up.

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    8:52 pm 8/30/06
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Jason Leopold: Robert Novak and the Perfect Stranger

    Novak lies? No way. He's a saint I tell ya

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    5:29 pm 8/30/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Jason Leopold: Robert Novak and the Perfect Stranger

    If this is true, it's an important piece of the puzzle. -- And that Novak has been lying.

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    6:50 am 8/30/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    Plame sues Cheney, Rove, Libby

    Joseph Wilson made it clear a while ago that they would be doing this. I'm glad to see it happen, though.

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    2:11 pm 7/13/06
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    Billbar comments on:

    My Leak Case Testimony

    Ain't he such a hero?

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    4:25 pm 7/11/06
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    Damianmann comments on:

    Waas: Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic

    Thi is very interesting. I wish CT wouldn't let more than one article about the same thing....or even the same article exactly...be published twice. you were first on this , from what I can tell. But CT allowed me to post it again

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    1:21 pm 7/04/06
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