Miller, Russert, Cooper, and Kristof Back in the Plame Game / Libby Subpoena

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Wednesday March 15, 2006 · 8:08 PM PST

2006/03/15 · 20:08

Libby has issued subpoenas to Judy Miller, Tim Russert, Matt Cooper, Nicholas Kristof, and the NYT.

Pincus, Novak, Woodward, and Viceca Novak are not mentioned.

Looks like Judy Miller's back in the Plame Game. Kristof, the author of the original article featuring Wilson as an anonymous source has also been subpoenaed. Kristof also was one of the first to point out that leaking Plame's identity could be a crime.

The NYT will have more in tomorrow's edition according to Editor & Publisher.

NEW YORK Lawyers for Lewis "Scooter" Libby, the indicted former aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, served subpoenas on Tuesday on The New York Times Co. and its former reporter Judith Miller relating to the Plame/CIA leak case, The Times reveals in its Thursday edition.
E & P 3/15/06

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Wednesday February 01, 2006 · 6:43 AM PST

2006/02/01 · 06:43

Looks like Libby is going after the CIA.

Libby is requesting records from the CIA. Specifically regarding Plame's employment classifcation and any national security assessments conducted by the CIA to determine any damage as a result of the WH leak.

Attorneys for Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff urged a court yesterday to force a prosecutor to turn over CIA records indicating whether former CIA operative Valerie Plame's employment was classified, saying the answer is not yet clear.
The defense team for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby also asked that the court require Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald to turn over any informal assessments conducted by the CIA to determine whether the leak of Plame's identity in July 2003 damaged national security or agency operations.
WaPo 2/1/06

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Thursday January 19, 2006 · 10:49 AM PST

2006/01/19 · 10:49

I've always wondered what happened with these Newsday reporters.....In the Columbia Journal Review, Timothy M. Phelps of Newsday has a run down of his dealings with special prosecuter Fitzgerald, this information has never been made public until now.

Phelps and his coauthor, Knut Royce along with Novak were the only reporters named in the original document request from the DOJ in September 2003, they were also named in the January 2004 subpoena from Fitzgerald.

According to Phelps, he and Royce were the first reporters contacted by Fitzgerald.

Roughly two months after he empaneled a grand jury in Washington in December 2003, Patrick Fitzgerald called Newsday saying he wanted to talk to us. So far as I know, we were the first reporters he contacted, with the possible exception of Novak, whose interactions with Fitzgerald are still unknown.
CJR January/Febuary 2006

Trevino Questions Markos on Ethics

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 8:18 AM PST

2005/12/21 · 08:18

Josh Trevino has a new blog, his 12/17/05 post is about ethics in political commentary. Trevino uses Markos as his example of questionable practices.

Trevino implies Kos was paid for favorable blogging by Dean and that Kos is pushing Unembedded, a photojournalism book, because he is using the publisher of Unembedded for his own book.

Still, it's often possible to spot when a blogger's extracurricular interests influence his site and his work. Here's an example:
Markos Moulitsas, proprietor of the single most successful blog on the planet, has a book coming out. It's been known for some time that this book has been in the works.
On an apparently unrelated note, in November 2005, Moulitsas starts plugging Unembedded, a photojournalism book filled with (apparently quite good) images from Iraq. He plugs it and plugs it and plugs it and plugs it.

Rove: The Hadley Email

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Wednesday December 07, 2005 · 2:03 PM PST

2005/12/07 · 14:03

Did Fitz have the Hadley email early in the investigation?
When did Rove testifiy about the Hadley email?
When did Rove testifiy about telling Cooper about Plame?

I think Rove testified in 10/04 that he had a conversation with Cooper before the Novak column. I think this is when he turned over and testified about the Hadley email, but he may not have mentioned the interesting part of the conversation, that he told Cooper about Plame.

It's possible Luskin thought Fitz had some sort of documentary evidence (that would be the Hadley email) that Rove had talked with Cooper. This explains why Luskin was searching through Roves's email account in the first place and probably ties into the fact that it looks like Rove was asked about Cooper in February 2004.

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UPDATE: WAPO: Viveca/Luskin talk before Rove's 1st testmony in early 2004

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Saturday December 03, 2005 · 11:30 AM PST

2005/12/03 · 11:30

New WAPO that states that the Viveca/Luskin conversation occured in early 2004.

This article goes on to say that Rove's first Grand Jury testimony was after the Viveca/Luskin conversation and Rove did not disclose the fact that he spoke with Cooper during that testimony.

One person familiar with the case said the Novak-Luskin conversation is not what prompted Rove to change his testimony in the case. In fact, this person said, Novak told Luskin about the Rove-Cooper connection before Rove's first appearance before the grand jury in February 2004. In that appearance, Rove testified that he did not recall talking to Cooper about Plame.
WAPO 12/03/05

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BBC: Judy Miller admits additional sources on Plame

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Friday December 02, 2005 · 8:42 AM PST

2005/12/02 · 08:42

In an interview with the BBC, Judy Miller admitted that others told her about Valerie Plame.

BBC INTERVIEWER: Who was it who told you that Valerie Plame was a spy?

JUDY MILLER: I don't remember who supplied the name. I remember and I testified before a Grand Jury to who it was that told me that Valerie Plame worked at the agency in the WMD area and that individual was Lewis Libby.. Scooter Libby.

BBC INTERVIEWER: Was there anybody else who named Valerie Plame to you as a CIA agent?

JUDY MILLER: Yes, other people did, but I - my notes - these interviews were two years old. I never wrote a story about it. It wasn't - I didn't consider it very important information at the time and my notes have no indication of who those other people were - and I really couldn't remember.

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Sunday October 30, 2005 · 5:37 PM PST

2005/10/30 · 17:37

I only link to Drudge because he says he has it as an exclusive. This is everything he has.

So for what it's worth

Drudge SUN OCT 30, 2005 18:31:21 ET

PROSECUTOR PLANS ON CALLING CHENEY AS WITNESS IN OPEN COURT; EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE FIGHT LOOMS
*Exclusive*
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is planning to call Vice President Dick Cheney as a witness in the trial of Lewis Libby, the DRUDGE REPORT has leaned.
But the high stakes move could result in an executive privilege showdown between the White House and Fitzgerald, a top government source said Sunday.
"If Mr. Fitzgerald is going to demand a public recounting of conversations between the vice president, or even the president, and his staff, on matters he, himself, has acknowledged are 'classified,' executive privilege will obviously be invoked."
Fitzgerald has made it clear to lawyers involved in the case that he prefers Cheney appear as a witness in open court.

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Does Rove's "New Information" tie into Fitz's visit to Bush's Lawyer?

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Saturday October 29, 2005 · 2:18 PM PDT

2005/10/29 · 14:18

It was widely reported that Rove was in legal jeopardy and reported by Sale that Rove was to be indicted.

What stopped Fitzgerald from issuing the indictment against Rove? Could Fitz's visit with Bush's lawyer on Friday have something to do with the new information Rove gave Fitz?

Mr. Fitzgerald was spotted Friday morning outside the office of James Sharp, Mr. Bush's personal lawyer. Mr. Bush was interviewed about the case by Mr. Fitzgerald last year. It is not known what discussions, if any, were taking place between the prosecutor and Mr. Sharp. Mr. Sharp did not return a phone call, and Mr. Fitzgerald's spokesman, Randall Samborn, declined to comment.
NYT 10/29/05

Did Rove tell Fitzgerald that Bush was involved? Is Rove's story that Bush called Rove from AF1 and authorized in some way that Rove was to knock down the Wilson's story by getting out the fact that Plame was involved with the Niger trip.

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The Case Against Rove / Obstruction, Perjury, Conspiracy

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Wednesday October 26, 2005 · 5:58 PM PDT

2005/10/26 · 17:58

The Case Against Rove

Obstruction

Rove concealed evidence when he failed to turn over his email to Hadley as requested in the original 9/30/03 document request from investigators.

Rove concealed evidence when he failed to turn over the phone log of the Cooper call as requested in the original 9/30/03 document request from investigators.

Rove failed to disclose his conversation with Cooper

Perjury

Rove lied when he told the GJ he first learned of Plame from reporters not government sources. Rove changes his story and says it is possible he learned of Plame from Libby after he was shown testimony from Libby that stated Libby had told him.

Rove likely lied when he told prosectors that he could not remember which reporter told him about Plame or when they told him.

Rove lied to investigators when he said that he hadn't talked to reporters about Plame until he read about it in Novak's column.

CNN Plamegate Poll 90% say something illegal or unethical

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Tuesday October 25, 2005 · 6:14 PM PDT

2005/10/25 · 18:14

When they start polling you know it's hit the big time.

Only one in 10 Americans said they believe Bush administration officials did nothing illegal or unethical in connection with the leaking of a CIA operative's identity, according to a national poll released Tuesday.

Thirty-nine percent said some administration officials acted illegally in the matter, in which the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative, was revealed.
The same percentage of respondents in the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll said Bush administration officials acted unethically, but did nothing illegal.
The poll questioned 1,008 adults October 21-23 and has a sampling error of plus or minus 5 percentage points. CNN

WAPO puts INR Memo in WH Meeting in June 03

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Tuesday October 18, 2005 · 10:18 AM PDT

2005/10/18 · 10:18

WAPO puts the 6/10/03 INR memo in a meeting at the WH in June 03.

From the Pincus 10/18/05 WAPO article.

Senior administration officials said there was a document circulated at the State Department -- before Libby talked to Miller -- that mentioned Plame. It was drafted in June as an administrative letter and addressed to then-Undersecretary of State Marc Grossman, who was acting secretary at the time since Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and Deputy Secretary Richard L. Armitage were out of the country.
As a former State Department official involved in the process recalled it, Grossman wanted the letter as background for a meeting at the White House, where the discussion was focused on then growing criticism of Bush's inclusion in his January State of the Union speech of the allegation that Hussein had been seeking uranium from Niger.

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