Rove Scandal: New Mysteries, New Props, New Legal Theories
Capital Games
David Corn
The Nation
BLOG | Posted 10/10/2005 @ 1:55pm
The Plame/CIA leak case is getting what all good scandals need: props.
We now have the "missing notebook" and the "missing email." The "missing notebook," as several news reports noted at the end of last week, belongs to New York Times reporter Judith Miller and reportedly contains notes of a conversation regarding former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that she had with Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, on June 25, 2003. The date is intriguing, for this is weeks before Wilson published his now famous New York Times op-ed piece (in which he revealed that after traveling to Niger for the CIA he had concluded that the allegation that Iraq had been uranium shopping there was dubious). And, of course, this was weeks before Robert Novak wrote a column outing Wilson's wife as an undercover CIA officer. So why were the two discussing Wilson at that point? Why did this notebook go missing within the paper's Washington bureau? Who found it? Miller or someone else? Why won't the Times explain to its readers how it came to be discovered? What do the notes in this notebook say? [...] Read on to speculate about the props and what they say about the leak ... http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=28125
© Virginia Metze
David Corn
The Nation
BLOG | Posted 10/10/2005 @ 1:55pm
The Plame/CIA leak case is getting what all good scandals need: props.
We now have the "missing notebook" and the "missing email." The "missing notebook," as several news reports noted at the end of last week, belongs to New York Times reporter Judith Miller and reportedly contains notes of a conversation regarding former Ambassador Joseph Wilson that she had with Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, on June 25, 2003. The date is intriguing, for this is weeks before Wilson published his now famous New York Times op-ed piece (in which he revealed that after traveling to Niger for the CIA he had concluded that the allegation that Iraq had been uranium shopping there was dubious). And, of course, this was weeks before Robert Novak wrote a column outing Wilson's wife as an undercover CIA officer. So why were the two discussing Wilson at that point? Why did this notebook go missing within the paper's Washington bureau? Who found it? Miller or someone else? Why won't the Times explain to its readers how it came to be discovered? What do the notes in this notebook say? [...] Read on to speculate about the props and what they say about the leak ... http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=28125
© Virginia Metze
Starmail - 20. Okt, 11:32
