State Dept Memo...tomorrow's NY Times...very latest on rove!

just posted on http://americablog.org....go there for the full story


The Plot thickens: The State Dept. Memo
by Joe in DC - 7/15/2005 10:47:00 PM

Oh boy. For all the spinning and leaking the Rove team has been doing, they just can't seem to get in front of this story. Every day, something new is uncovered. Today's development -- in tomorrow's New York Times -- is the State Department's memo about Joseph Wilson:

Prosecutors in the C.I.A. leak case have shown intense interest in a 2003 State Department memorandum that explained how a former diplomat came to be dispatched on an intelligence-gathering mission and the role of his wife, a C.I.A. officer, in the trip, people who have been officially briefed on the case said.

Investigators in the case have been trying to learn whether officials at the White House and elsewhere in the administration learned of the C.I.A. officer's identity from the memorandum. They are seeking to determine if any officials then passed the name along to journalists and if officials were truthful in testifying about whether they had read the memorandum, the people who have been briefed said, asking not to be named because the special prosecutor heading the investigation had requested that no one discuss the case.

The memo was sent to Colin L. Powell, then the secretary of state, just before or as he traveled with President Bush and other senior officials to Africa starting on July 7, 2003, when the White House was scrambling to defend itself from a blast of criticism a few days earlier from the former diplomat, Joseph C. Wilson IV, current and former government officials said.

much more at link above...please go

I think the "....go" is throwing it off.

And I bet Rove had read the memo. If he read the memo, then he knew he outed an UNDERCOVER CIA agent to Novak, which would put him behind bars for a long time.

...and so is Bush!

http://americablog.org


This is all stuff DU has been speculating on forever....the investigators need to come talk to us.

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GOP talking points "published",...and these people are actually cornering themselves without anyone's assistance.

They are going down, down, down,...and they continue to dig their own grave with more lies, lies, lies.

I'm not a vengeful person BUT I will relish in justice. These exploitative assholes DESERVE everything coming to them,...and their unprincipled, immoral, SELFISH party deserves to go down with them.

A message to the Republican party: "WINNING" is about the interests of "the people",...NOT YOU, you selfish, self-centered bastards!!!!

But, this is getting really interesting ...

:popcorn:

I just went to Americablog.org and didn't see anything.

:shrug:

The memo was sent to Colin L. Powell, then the secretary of state, just before or as he traveled with President Bush and other senior officials to Africa starting on July 7, 2003, when the White House was scrambling to defend itself from a blast of criticism a few days earlier from the former diplomat, Joseph C. Wilson IV, current and former government officials said.

Mr. Powell was seen walking around Air Force One during the trip with the memo in hand, said a person involved in the case who also requested anonymity because of the prosecutor's admonitions about talking about the investigation.

Investigators are also trying to determine whether the gist of the information in the memo, including the name of the C.I.A. officer, Valerie Wilson, Mr. Wilson's wife, had been provided to the White House even earlier, said another person who has been involved in the case. Investigators have been looking at whether the State Department provided the information to the White House before July 6, 2003, when her husband publicly criticized the way the administration used intelligence to justify the war in Iraq, the person said.

The prosecutors have shown the memo to witnesses at the grand jury investigating how the C.I.A. officer's name was disclosed to journalists, blowing her cover as a covert operative and possibly violating federal law, people briefed on the case said. The prosecutors appear to be investigating how widely the memo circulated within the White House and the administration, and whether it might have been the original source of information for whoever provided the identity of Ms. Wilson to Robert D. Novak, the syndicated columnist who first disclosed it in print.

And this is big. This is the missing link.

You want to know how the WHIG members knew Plame was CIA? They read this memo.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/16/politics/16memo.html?pagewanted=2

:hug:

to Powell? Powell leaks to Rove and the idiot? Is this the info Condiliar REFUSES to release to the Senate committee? I bet it is.

Powell's a bigger jerk than I thought he was.