Countdown Newsletter -- 11/16/05: Woodward Leak Testimony

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Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed. In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501857.html

Lawyers for Libby plan to seek testimony from journalists beyond those cited in the indictment and will probably challenge government agreements limiting their grand jury testimony. http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/16libby.html

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A White House document shows that executives from big oil companies met with Vice President Cheney's energy task force in 2001 -- something long suspected by environmentalists but denied as recently as last week by industry officials testifying before Congress. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501842.html

Former President Clinton told Arab students Wednesday the United States made a "big mistake" when it invaded Iraq, stoking the partisan debate back home over the war.

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That's some of what we're planning for tonight's show.

Finally,
A California woman says she still plans to marry the man who shot her in the groin and then held her hostage in his family's garage for six days. Tina Marie Stebbins revealed her intentions in a letter released Monday as her boyfriend, Christian Leroy Lindblad, 37, was sentenced to 20 years in prison for shooting her in June 2002. "I love Christian today as deeply as I loved him before this awful thing happened to us," Stebbins wrote in a victim impact statement. "We are soul mates." http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MARRIAGE_AFTER_SHOOTING?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME
Love stinks.

-- Carey Fox

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More:
Conditions - including the use of torture - at a secret Baghdad detention facility were so "horrific" that some of the scores of men held there "looked like Holocaust survivors" when they were found, NBC News has learned. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10049773/

Pentagon officials say white phosphorus was used as a weapon against insurgent strongholds during the battle of Fallujah last November, but deny an Italian television news report that it was used against civilians. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10064711/

China reported its first three confirmed human cases of bird flu Wednesday as the government raced to vaccinate billions of chickens, ducks and other poultry in a massive effort to stop the spread of the virus. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10067023/

Tired of skyrocketing jet fuel prices, Virgin Atlantic Airways boss Richard Branson said on Wednesday he plans to turn his back on hydrocarbons and use plant waste to power his fleet. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10066397/

Ford Motor Co. said on Wednesday it is recalling nearly 226,000 vehicles in the United States and Canada, including its flagship Ford Five Hundred sedan and Freestyle wagon, because of fire risks. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10068776/

Three dancers and two employees at a Jacksonville strip club have pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct, ending a case in which a patron filed a complaint after he was spanked with a big wooden paddle on his birthday. The judge ordered the paddle destroyed so it is not sold for a profit.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SPANKING_STRIPPERS?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME

You can't call this top cop a plainclothes policeman - not after he appeared on television in a canary-yellow dress, sporting dark red lipstick, matching nail polish and a nose ring. State officials ordered a probe into the behavior of Devendra Kumar Panda, an inspector general in the Uttar Pradesh state police, which could cost him his job, officials said Tuesday. Panda, 57, who believes himself to be the reincarnation of a lady consort of the Hindu amorous god Krishna, claims he is merely exercising his freedom of religion. But his wife, who is suing him, says he is no woman at heart - just a womanizer. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/INDIA_DRAG_COP?SITE=NWCN&TEMPLATE=STRANGEHEADS.html&SECTION=HOME

Should be a great first segment tonight.

Did you see Rawstory's latest headline..."Major story developing...more soon." Could they be bigger teases?

They are terrible with that stuff. :hi: See ya later! Go Blue!

I won't tell Botany you're rooting for us.

I still want to be his Fav EDV. :)

Well, maybe I WAS, but I'm not anymore, since I won't give him my tickets.

I cracked up when I saw that bagel and lox. :)

Take him down, and throw in Condi.

:hi:

Thanks, Bob Woodward!

And, can I punch Dick Cheney? Just, haul off and punch him? Please?

This is definitely the right show, at the right time.


Keef: :patriot:

This one's the newsletter. :hi:

:blush:

My lips, for once, are sealed. ;)

all the bullshit with his current and historical political knowledge, KO adds a dimension to the experience of this story that does the utmost credit to his profession.