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• Plamegate, Leakgate

• AIPAC / Rosen Weissman, Pentagon moles.

• Bush's 2003 State of the Union speech, Niger Forged Documents   & Iraq, Iran

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• From April 2006 report: New York Sun  "Bush Said to Have Cleared Early Release of Iraq Intelligence to Times ...I. Lewis Libby, testified to a grand jury that he gave information from a closely-guarded "National Intelligence Estimate" on Iraq to a New York Times reporter in 2003 with the specific permission of President Bush,  ...  the new disclosure could be awkward for the president because it places him, for the first time, directly in a chain of events that led to a meeting where prosecutors contend the identity of a CIA employee, Valerie Plame, was provided to a reporter ...and file
• Feb 2007 AP and copy Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer leaked the identity of a CIA operative to Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus during a 2003 phone call, Pincus testified Monday as the first defense witness in the CIA leak trial.  Pincus was one of the first reporters to learn the identity of Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador and prominent Iraq war critic Joseph Wilson. Pincus said he learned her identity July 12, 2003 but did not immediately write about it. Plame was outed by syndicated columnist Robert Novak two days later.  and copy
• Media Matters 2007, "At all relevant times from January 1, 2002 through July 2003, Valerie [Plame] Wilson was employed by the CIA, and her employment status was classified. Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community." 
• Libby indictment ..... Count 1: Obstruction of Justice (18 U.S.C. Section 1503) Counts 2-3: False Statements (18 U.S.C. Section 1001(a)(2))  Counts 4-5: Perjury (18 U.S.C. Section 1623)  indictment
• Jul 2003  At all relevant times from January 1, 2002 through July 2003, Valerie Wilson was employed by the CIA, and her employment status was classified. Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community.  indictment
• Jul 6, 2003, Sunday  former Ambassador Joe Wilson article "What I Didn't Find in Iraq", (New York Times) a ppears in New York Times, suggesting that some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate Saddam Hussein threat.  This ignited Congressional Democrats.
• Wilson interviewed for a Washington Post story on '16 words'. and appeared on Meet the Press.  Accused Bush of twisting the facts about Iraq weapons and leading U.S. to war on false pretenses. NewYorkTimes
• Scoop, on Viveca Novak / Luskin conversation....desperate attempt to stop Rove indictment, info.  December 2005 article  and Scoop  "MalcontentX: The PlameGate Affair is A Smokescreen" great 'connecting the dots' piece: Iraq War, Bush corruption... 9/11
• Jul 6, 2003 The July 6 "Op Ed" Article by Wilson  indictment
• 15. On July 6, 2003, the New York Times published an Op-Ed article by Wilson entitled "What I Didn't Find in Africa." Also on July 6, 2003, the Washington Post published an article about Wilson's 2002 trip to Niger, which article was based in part upon an interview of Wilson. Also on July 6, Wilson appeared as a guest on the television interview show "Meet the Press." In his Op-Ed article and interviews in print and on television, Wilson asserted, among other things, that he had taken a trip to Niger at the request of the CIA in February 2002 to investigate allegations that Iraq had sought or obtained uranium yellowcake from Niger, and that he doubted Iraq had obtained uranium from Niger recently, for a number of reasons. Wilson stated that he believed, based on his understanding of government procedures, that the Office of the Vice President was advised of the results of his trip. indictment
• Jul 6, 2003. Sunday    Deputy Sec of State Armitage called INR director Carl Ford asking about Wilson Niger claims, wanted info forwarded to Colin Powell.  
• Rove doesn't remember whether he told Novak or vice versa about Plame?   Also strange meeting last few blocks on way to 'Crossfire' taping where Novak spills all the beans to Wilson friend.  Wilson and friend documented exchange. Wilson and CNN news division head Eason Jordan exchange words about Novak's conversation with Wilson friend. American Prospect
• Jul 7, 2003  16. On or about July 7, 2003, LIBBY had lunch with the then White House Press Secretary and advised the Press Secretary that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and noted that such information was not widely known.
• Jul 7, 2003  On or about July 7, 2003, LIBBY advised the White House Press Secretary that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA;  indictment
• Jul 7, 2003, Monday  Whitehouse retracts SOTU Niger claims.  Bush trip to Africa, with Powell and INR memo.  Is this how Plame's id circulated? Calls her Valerie Wilson.   Memo clearly states Plame id sensitivity.  Did Bush see the memo?  Ari Fleischer has testified on this and Novak tried to contact him.  Air Force One phone logs eventually subpoenaed for the week of the Africa tour.     TOP   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• Jul 7, 2003 Monday  June 10 INR memo found and copied for Powell and transmitted via Whitehouse operation center......could then have been passed freely around on Air Force One?
• Jul 7, 2003 Monday  Robert Novak calls Whitehouse, asked for Ari Fleischer.
• In or about June or July 2003, and in no case later than on or about July 8, 2003, LIBBY was advised by the Assistant to the Vice President for Public Affairs that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA;
• Jul 8, 2003   On or about July 8, 2003, LIBBY advised reporter Judith Miller of his belief that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA; and  indictment
• Miller and Rove will testify multiple times (in October 2005) because of surprise revelations of 'missing' notes and emails that would invigorate Fitzgerald's investigation.  NewsWeek and New York Times Nov 2005, file
• Jul 8, 2003   On or about July 8, 2003, LIBBY had a discussion with the Counsel to the Office of the Vice President concerning the paperwork that would exist if a person who was sent on an overseas trip by the CIA had a spouse who worked at the CIA;  indictment
• Jul 8, 2003 Tuesday Rove and Novak spoke about Plame on July 8, 2003. ( NY Times said a "a person who has been briefed on the matter" described the conversation) the conversation turned to Plame as a CIA agent and Wilson Africa trip details, and said to Novak: "I heard that, too".   (remember there were two 'administration officials")  The conversation was initiated by Novak.  Novak wrote the article that outed Plame July 14th.  Novak referred to Wilson's wife by her maiden name.  SFGate, Time, NYTimes  American Prospect

• Jul 8, 2003  17. On or about the morning of July 8, 2003, LIBBY met with New York Times reporter Judith Miller. When the conversation turned to the subject of Joseph Wilson, LIBBY asked that the information LIBBY provided on the topic of Wilson be attributed to a "former Hill staffer" rather than to a "senior administration official," as had been the understanding with respect to other information that LIBBY provided to Miller during this meeting. LIBBY thereafter discussed with Miller Wilson's trip and criticized the CIA reporting concerning Wilson's trip. During this discussion, LIBBY advised Miller of his belief that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA.  indictment

• Jul 8, 2003   18. Also on or about July 8, 2003, LIBBY met with the Counsel to the Vice President in an anteroom outside the Vice President's Office. During their brief conversation, LIBBY asked the Counsel to the Vice President, in sum and substance, what paperwork there would be at the CIA if an employee's spouse undertook an overseas trip.  indictment

• 19. Not earlier than June 2003, but on or before July 8, 2003, the Assistant to the Vice President for Public Affairs learned from another government official that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and advised LIBBY of this information.  indictment

• Jul 8, 2003 Tuesday Miller has meeting with Libby. 2 What did she tell them, and why didn't she write a story.  Newsday and Huffington Post  (They discussed Wilson, but this won't be disclosed until Oct 8, 2005) see Franklingate.com

• Miller and Libby discuss Plame.  Miller says she has not received a 'specific' (from Libby's lips?) enough waiver to testify.  Cooper says he was given 'specific' waiver.  Has Miller asked for one?   Salon
• Libby and Miller are close friends...he visited her in jail and wrote a possibly coded message to her in the form of a poem.  Salon.com Washington Post
• Miller and Rove will testify multiple times (in October 2005) because of surprise revelations of 'missing' notes and emails that would invigorate Fitzgerald's investigation.  NewsWeek and New York Times Nov 2005, file
• Jul 8, 2003 Tuesday Rice receives NSC briefing book for Sunday talk shows and may have contained INR (Plame) memo.   If this work is copied please TOPreference SCF, NewsFollowUp.com
• New York Magazine, and Arianna Huffington search on Miller ties. and Talkleft  Miller spoke to Libby on July 8, 2003. 
• Jul 8, 2003  c. LIBBY did not discuss Wilson's wife with New York Times reporter Judith Miller during a meeting with Miller on or about July 8, 2003. ci  indictment
• Jul 8, 2003 Tuesday Novak / Rove conversation turns to Plame, identifying her by name.  Novak claims he knows Wilson sent by Plame.  Rove responds: "Oh, you know about it" or according to Rove: "I heard that, too." see dKosopedia for more on this, search Eason Jordan.  Washington Post
• Rove provided confirmation to Novak of Plames id.  Salon
• Jul 9, 2003 Wednesday two top Whitehouse officials disclosed Plame's CIA identity to at least six Washington journalists as reported in a Sept 28, 2003 Washington Post article.  Bush was in Africa...and fending off questions about '16 words', citing CIA ok.  dKosopedia
• Jul 9, 2003 Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee (Republican leadership) report (smear).  Republicans say Hussein was after uranium citing EU intelligence.  Plame did "specifically recommend" Wilson for trip to Niger in a CPD memo.  Claim that Wilson never saw that docs that were determined to be forged.  Claim Wilson "misspoke" about forged docs.  Claim that CIA did not pass on to Whitehouse its own doubts about yellow cake claims.  Smearing CIA and Wilson campaign?  Whitehouse / Republicans silent on effects of outing on intelligence community..dKosopedia
• Crisispapers In the summer of 2005, Judges looking at Fitzgerald's evidence of a crime are shown eight pages of evidence that convinces them to compel Miller and Cooper to testify or go to jail, based on national security matters.  
• Jul 10, 2003 Thursday Novak tells Wilson that a CIA source informed him on Plame.  Wilson outraged, gets apology from Novak.  Wilson tells Novak Plame has nothing to do with yellowcake.  Washington Post
• Republicans will eventually try to spin the leak as an effort by Rove to correct belief that Tenet or Cheney sent Wilson to Africa....but rather it was Wilson's wife (by outing Plame?..dumb as Clintons "is is" spin..)
• Go to U. S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Phase II, final report, searchable text file and pdf. "Sadly, the Bush Administration led the nation into war under false pretenses."
• Jul 10, 2003  20. On or about July 10, 2003, LIBBY spoke to NBC Washington Bureau Chief Tim Russert to complain about press coverage of LIBBY by an MSNBC reporter. LIBBY did not discuss Wilson's wife with Russert. indictment
• Jul 10, 2003   32. It was part of the corrupt endeavor that during his grand jury testimony, defendant LIBBY made the following materially false and intentionally misleading statements and representations, in substance, under oath:  a. When LIBBY spoke with Tim Russert of NBC News, on or about July 10, 2003:    (grand jury testimony)  a. When LIBBY spoke with Tim Russert of NBC News, on or about July 10, 2003:   Russert asked LIBBY if LIBBY knew that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and told LIBBY that all the reporters knew it; and    ii. At the time of this conversation, LIBBY was surprised to hear that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA;  indictment
• Jul 10, 2003   33. It was further part of the corrupt endeavor that at the time defendant LIBBY made each of the above-described materially false and intentionally misleading statements and representations to the grand jury, LIBBY was aware that they were false, in that:  a. When LIBBY spoke with Tim Russert of NBC News on or about July 10, 2003:   i. Russert did not ask LIBBY if LIBBY knew that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, nor did he tell LIBBY that all the reporters knew it; and   ii. At the time of this conversation, LIBBY was well aware that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA; in fact, LIBBY had participated in multiple prior conversations concerning this topic, including on the following occasions:  indictment
• Jul 11, 2003.  Friday Rice claims '16 words' conformed to NIE, and DCIA cleared SOTU.  Rice said she learned about forged documents from a TV show, and that the Whitehouse did not know about Wilson's Niger trip.  Seemed to want to push idea of Whitehouse ignorance on Wilson trip.  
• Jul 11, 2003  21. On or about July 10 or July 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke to a senior official in the White House ("Official A") who advised LIBBY of a conversation Official A had earlier that week with columnist Robert Novak in which Wilson's wife was discussed as a CIA employee involved in Wilson's trip. LIBBY was advised by Official A that Novak would be writing a story about Wilson's wife.  indictment
• Jul 11, 2003  a. During a conversation with Tim Russert of NBC News on July 10 or 11, 2003, Russert asked LIBBY if LIBBY was aware that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. LIBBY responded to Russert that he did not know that, and Russert replied that all the reporters knew it. LIBBY was surprised by this statement because, while speaking with Russert, LIBBY did not recall that he previously had learned about Wilson's wife's employment from the Vice President. ci  indictment
• Rove told Cooper about Plame Salon
• Jul 11, 2003. Friday  Cooper email to Michael Duffy (bureau chief) "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation"...."please don't source this to rove or even WH (Whitehouse).... dKosopedia
• Cooper e-mail: Rove gave him (Cooper) a "big warning" that Wilson's claims might not be entirely accurate and that it wasn't the director of the CIA or Cheney who sent Wilson to Nigeria.  Rove (witness account) apparently told Cooper that it was "Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on WMD issues who authorized the trip," according to a story in Newsweek's July 18 issue.  Washington Post
• Cooper said Rove ended the call by saying: 'I've already said too much'.  Cooper was not sure what that meant.  Fitzgerald very inquisitive about how Rove learned her name.  and Cooper said they never talked about welfare reform. dKosopedia
• Tenet takes blame for not cutting Niger claim from SOTU speech citing pressure from NSC, within days Hadley confesses also.  Hadley, Rove, Libby all members of Whitehouse Iraq Group, WHIG (cooking Iraq war intelligence) see Franklingate.com on WHIG.
• Jul 11, Friday 2003.  Rove emails Hadley NSA, that he spoke with Cooper, said he didn't take Cooper's bait (Cooper asked if Bush hurt by Wilson) on  Niger questions.  Rove tried to smear Wilson's stories.  Fitzgerald does not know about this email. 
• The email to Hadley was not disclosed until October of 2005, which will further jeopardize Rove's position.
• Later that afternoon Tenet says decision to send Wilson was made by CIA alone. Matthew Cooper, " What I told the Grand Jury, ” Time.  Washington Post
• Feb. 2007 MSNBC   "Vice President Cheney's press officer, Cathie Martin, approached his chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on Air Force Two on July 12, 2003, to ask how she should respond to journalists' questions about Joseph C. Wilson IV. Libby looked over one of the reporters' questions and told Martin: "Well, let me go talk to the boss and I'll be back." and copy
• Feb, 2007, Washington Post  "Libby subsequently called a reporter, read him the statement, and said -- according to the reporter -- he had "heard" that Wilson's investigation was instigated by his wife, an employee at the CIA, later identified as Valerie Plame. The reporter, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, was one of five people with whom Libby discussed Plame's CIA status during those critical weeks that summer. and copy
• Washington Post, Journalism on Trial, Russert, Libby, lies.... and copy  and CNN Russert Testimony and copy
• Jul 12, 2003  22. On or about July 12, 2003, LIBBY flew with the Vice President and others to and from Norfolk, Virginia, on Air Force Two. On his return trip, LIBBY discussed with other officials aboard the plane what LIBBY should say in response to certain pending media inquiries, including questions from Time reporter Matthew Cooper.  indictment
• Jul 12, 2003  23. On or about July 12, 2003, in the afternoon, LIBBY spoke by telephone to Cooper, who asked whether LIBBY had heard that Wilson's wife was involved in sending Wilson on the trip to Niger. LIBBY confirmed to Cooper, without elaboration or qualification, that he had heard this information too.  indictment
• Jul 12, 2003  24. On or about July 12, 2003, in the late afternoon, LIBBY spoke by telephone with Judith Miller of the New York Times and discussed Wilson's wife, and that she worked at the CIA.  indictment
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• Jul 12, 2003  b. LIBBY did not advise Matthew Cooper, on or about July 12, 2003, that LIBBY had heard other reporters were saying that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, nor did LIBBY advise him that LIBBY did not know whether this assertion was true; rather, LIBBY confirmed to Cooper, without qualification, that LIBBY had heard that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA; and    indictment
• Jul 12, 2003  c. LIBBY did not advise Judith Miller, on or about July 12, 2003, that LIBBY had heard other reporters were saying that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, nor did LIBBY advise her that LIBBY did not know whether this assertion was true;  indictment
• Jul 12, 2003.  Pincus (Washington Post), gets 'clue' from Whitehouse that they had not paid enough attention to Wilson's trip, 'because it was setup...by his wife'.  Pincus never wrote about this but testified and was deposed on it.  Story source: Karl Rove  Independent Media TV
• Jul 12, 2003  b. During a conversation with Matthew Cooper of Time magazine on or about July 12, 2003, LIBBY told Cooper that reporters were telling the administration that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, but that LIBBY did not know if this was true; and  ci  indictment
• Jul 12, 2003  b. LIBBY advised Matthew Cooper of Time magazine on or about July 12, 2003, that he had heard that other reporters were saying that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, and further advised him that LIBBY did not know whether this assertion was true; and  (grand jury testimony)  indictment
• Jul 12, 2003  c. LIBBY advised Judith Miller of the New York Times on or about July 12, 2003 that he had heard that other reporters were saying that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA but LIBBY did not know whether that assertion was true.  indictment
• Pincus spoke to government officials about Plame two days before Novak's article report.” (" Probe Focuses on Month Before Leak, ” Washington Post
• Pincus: 2005   Washington Post:  "....Pincus, who spoke with Fitzgerald early in the case after his source said he could, has never revealed who told him that Wilson's wife helped arrange the trip to Niger. Pincus has said the source was not Libby, and has described the person as a "White House official" who called him. The source came forward to the prosecutor and released Pincus to discuss their conversation with Fitzgerald but not with the public."
• Harlow  warned Novak not to write a story with Plame's name in it. and see David Corn.com
• Judith Miller, Scooter Libby conversation? July 8? Reported by Kurtz,
• Jul 12, 2003.  Cooper told Libby that he'd been informed by other reporters that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee.  Libby said he'd already heard that too from reporters.  Washington Post 10/16.  
• Walter Pincus, Washington Post, wrote in the summer edition of Nieman Reports that one of the  Whitehouse officials talked to him two days before Novak's column appeared. Guardian
• Jul 12, 2003.  Third meeting of Miller and Libby.  Plame's identity still not disclosed in the press, but was discussed in all three meetings.  Ledger-Enquirer
• Jul 14th, 2003. Ari Fleischer leaves WH job. Told grand jury he was not Novak's source, but played central role in retracting SOTU  Received message that Novak called on July 7, but didn't return the call.  He told grand jury he didn't see the INR  Neither did Dan Bartlett.   NYTimes 
• Rocky Mountain News WMD Bush deception timeline
• Jul 14th, 2003. Novak column written  see below  Mission to Niger.  Wilson called Novak about clarification of Novak's source:  (CIA or Whitehouse?), Novak replied "I misspoke the first time we talked."
• Rove wants the belief out that he was the  'second source' for Novak's July 14th article and the 'first source' for Cooper's July 17th.  He says he also can't  remember who the reporter was that first told him of Plame's id, but learned her actual name from Novak.  Cover?  What did Rove tell Bush?   Washington Post 7/15
• Timothy Phelps....conversations with Wilson Wilson, Politics 348) . 
• Rep. Henry Waxman, 11 Security Breaches in Plame Case hearing: "National Security Consequences of Disclosing the Identity of a Covert Intelligence Agent," was chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.).
• Dailykos, Rove Not Guilty? Cheney stickin' it to the CIA
• Novak has said that the use of the word 'operative' was a journalistic miscue. but prosecutors are skeptical of this.
• It is also significant that Novak used the name Valerie Plame, where the INR memo used the name Valerie Wilson
• Jul 16th, 2003. New York Times.  reported that: State Dept interested in INR (memo circulated on Bush Africa trip, with Plame info).  Are readers of the memo being truthful.  At least, Powell saw it.  Grand jury: did the State Dept give Plame's id info to the WH even before July 6?  Did it eventually get to Novak?
• Jul 16th, 2003. (" A White House Smear ,” The Nation, July 2003)
• How much did Ari Fleischer know about the INR? Fleishcer was with Bush on the Africa trip.  No comment from Fleischer.  
• Ted Olson, Bush Solicitor General, served as defense attorney for Jonathan Pollard. Pollard was convicted of spying for Israel. 
• Remember Sen. Paul Wellstone, martyr.   Investigate AMDOCS, war criminals
• Jul 17th, 2003. Time publishes online “ A War on Wilson? ” by Cooper, Massimo Calabresi and John Dickerson , Time names Mrs. Wilson. Cooper quotes, “government officials” as saying “that Wilson 's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of WMD.  .  Times article does mention that Plame was involved in decision to send Wilson to Niger.  So who told Time about Plame?
• David Corn of  The Nation tell Wilson leak was a crime.  The Nation
• Rove told CNN: "I didn't know her name"....carefully chosen words indeed. MSNBC Newsweek see Michael Isikoff, Mark Hosenball articles
• Jul 20, 2003. Andrea Mitchell (NBC) told by Whitehouse to push Wilson smear not the '16 words'.
• Jul 21, 2003. Wilson interview with Andrea Mitchell, distorted by NBC? Wilson was refused a copy.  Mitchell saved a copy.  Chris Mathews tells Wilson that Karl Rove considered Plame 'fair game'.  Is this a pattern: consider Paul O'Neill, Richard Clarke, Gen Zinni, Gen. Shinseki
• Jul 21, 2003 "Judith Miller filed a story about (David) Kelly on July 21, 2003: 'New York Times. 'Scientist Was the 'Bane of Proliferators'. The article painted a sympathetic portrait of Kelly and hinted that he believed Saddam did indeed maintain a WMD program despite the fact that no evidence of it had yet been found".  "In an email to..Miller.., sent just before he left his home for the last time, he referred to "many dark actors playing games".  
• Jul 22, 2003. Stephen Hadley offers to resign on '16 words' but Bush refuses.  Newsday reports Plame was undercover until Novak outed her. 
• Jul 24, 2003. CIA says crime report forthcoming.  Ashcroft letter
• Jul 30, 2003. CIA files a "crime report" to DOJ, leak was a crime.  Rice also given refusal upon her resignation offer. and crime report to John Conyers,  Letter to John Conyers ).
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• Aug 2003 The last meeting of Libby and Miller was in Aspen Colorado. (New York Times file)....Libby poem in a letter to Miller in jail: "You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover -- Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work -- and life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers -- With admiration, Scooter Libby." from Salon.com  coded message???
• Fitzgerald will ask Miller about this poem in Miller's final grand jury appearance.
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• "He (Cheney) went on TV in September 2003 saying he didn’t know Wilson or who had sent him to Niger"  Arab News This will be later shown to be a lie, even by the mainstream press.
• Sept 14, 2003: Cheney "There was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s."  New York Times says no links Village Voice
• Sept 14, 2003 Cheney: "With respect to 9-11, of course, we've had the story that's been public out there. The Czechs alleged that Mohammed Atta, the lead attacker, met in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official five months before the attack . . . " But California congressman Henry Waxman has noted that this meeting probably didn't happen and that Cheney knew it. Waxman's report said: "Czech intelligence officials were skeptical about the report; U.S. intelligence had contradictory evidence, such as records indicating Atta was in Virginia at the time of the meeting; and the CIA and FBI had concluded the meeting probably didn't occur.''  Village Voice
• Sep 26, 2003  25. On or about September 26, 2003, the Department of Justice authorized the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") to commence a criminal investigation into the possible unauthorized disclosure of classified information regarding the disclosure of Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA to various reporters in the spring of 2003.  indictment
• AP Feb, 2007  "Trial exposes White House crisis machine ...  In the fall of 2003, President Bush's press secretary was categorically denying that either Karl Rove or I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was involved in exposing the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA employee married to a critic of the war in Iraq. "Why are you making these statements?" Addington asked White House communications director Dan Bartlett. "Your boss is the one who wanted" them, Bartlett replied, referring to Cheney. With that, "I shut up," Addington recalled recently for jurors in Libby's CIA leak trial, which begins its fourth week on Monday with Libby's lawyers calling their first witnesses. So far, the testimony of Addington and other administration aides, along with documents and Libby's audiotaped grand jury testimony, have provided a rare glimpse of how the Bush White House scrambled to respond to a political crisis as it intersected a criminal investigation. At the intersection was Cheney, along with Rove and Libby, who were working in the summer of 2003 to rebut claims by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, that Bush had misled the nation about prewar intelligence on Iraq. " and copy
• Sept 28, 2003  not reported until Sept 28, 2003 ... Washington Post article: ..two top White House officials disclosed Plame's CIA identity to at least six Washington journalists
• Sept 29, 2003 New York Times Douglas Jehl, reported that a study by the Defense Intelligence Agency found that Chalabi intelligence "was of little or no value".  William Bowles
• Sept 29 2003: At a press briefing McClellan said: "The president knows that Karl Rove wasn't involved."  Reporter: "How does he know that" "McClellan: "I've made it very clear that it was a ridiculous question in the firs place.....and I've talked to Karl Rove...."
• Sept 29 2003: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales notified Andrew Card  of DOJ Plame leak investigation at 8:00 PM, but waited 12 hours (next day) to tell anyone else in Whitehouse to preserve relevant documents.  On Sept 29th he was White House counsel and Ashcroft was AG.  
• Sept 29 2003: National Review Online  Sept 29, 2003, Clifford May, FDD claiming to know of Plame's ID long before Novak's article link  
• Who did Card talk to that night.  All very smelly.
• Shredding party connections: In Sept 2005 Gonzales will name (Ted Ullyot), D. Kyle DOJ Sampson as chief of staff and Raul Yanes as counselor. ..and (Ted Ullyot), KerrySharesOurValues  Franklingate.com
  All three are lawyers in the White House counsel's office.  ... Ullyot and Yanes were the coordinators of the White House's response to the investigation into the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity.  Gonzales and Ashcroft will recuse, but will these three also? DOJ Franklingate.com
• DOJ adds Defense and State Dept to focus list.  They want phone logs, emails..etc. Ashcroft said revealing an agent's id puts them in physical jeopardy.  Washington Post 10/3
• Rep. Thomas M. Davis II (R-Va.) met with Wilson for 45 min.
• Bush joked about the leaks during a session with African news organizations.  
• WH surrendered thousands of emails, call logs and calendars.  Logs show several WH officials talked to Novak shortly before his  July 14th outing of Plame.  Notes include criticisms of Wilson as Kerry supporter, advisor.  Prosecutors have asked WH officials to sign waivers to overcome reporter obstacles to revealing sources.
• Pincus wrote an October story similar to Novak's but did not mention Plame's name.
• Oct 1, 2003 Another Novak column written....said he called the two officials who were the source of his first column.  The first source (unknown) Novak described as 'no partisan gunslinger.'  The second source said, 'Oh, you know about it too." and see column.
• MSNBC 2007 "The vice president personally penned an October 2003 note in which he wrote, “Not going to protect one staffer and sacrifice the other.” The note, read aloud in court by Wells (Libby trial, Jan 2007), implied that Libby was the one being sacrificed in an effort to clear Rove of any role in leaking the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq war critic Joe Wilson. “Wow, for all the talk about this being a White House that prides itself on loyalty and discipline, you’re not seeing much of it,” the lawyer said.
• Oct 3, 2003: Cheney: "If we had had that information and ignored it, if we'd been told, as we were, by the intelligence community that he was capable of producing a nuclear weapon within a year if he could acquire fissile material and ignored it . . . we would have been derelict in our duties and responsibilities."  In fact, the U.N. had reported on September 8, 2003, that Iraq was not capable of pursuing a nuclear weapons program after 1991 and that there was no sign of active weaponization activities in Iraq. Village Voice
• Oct 6, 2003 Bush was asked by a reporter if the leak was a retaliation.  Bush: "I don't know who leaked...find out the truth."
• Oct 6, 2003 NewsMax  Rep. King: Prosecute Leakgate Accuser for CIA Secrecy Violation,  A leading New York congressman is calling for an investigation into whether Leakgate accuser Joseph Wilson violated CIA secrecy when he blew the lid off his role in a February 2002 mission to determine whether Iraq had sought uranium from Niger. ...  For the last week Wilson has been demanding an investigation into the Bush administration's role in revealing his wife's job as a secret CIA operative, a move that he contends was an act of retaliation for his decision to go public about the Niger mission in a July op-ed piece for the New York Times.  ... But Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., said Sunday that it's Wilson who needs to be investigated - and even prosecuted if he violated CIA secrecy. ... "I assume that if he went into this job for the CIA, he had to sign an oath of secrecy - a confidentiality [agreement]," King told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg. "And if he did, then he violated it and he should be prosecuted." ... "He conducted a so-called secret mission for the CIA," King complained. "[However] he's talking about it all over national and international television - undermining the president of the United States. ... Why wasn't this guy called in before a grand jury?"  ... King says that if the CIA didn't require Wilson to sign a confidentiality agreement, then the agency should explain why not - along with why it picked the talkative Wilson for the sensitive mission in the first place.  ... "Why did they pick the guy who was anti-Bush, anti-war with Iraq, to go over and conduct a really half-assed investigation of Niger?" the House Homeland Security Committee member told Malzberg.  ...  To get Steve Malzberg's exclusive NewsMax.com column e-mailed directly to you, go to www.newsmax.com/malzberg. 
• Oct 7, 2003: Scott McClellan and Bush said Rove, Libby, Abrams "Those individuals assured me they were not involved in this. And that's where it stands".  Bush may have been aware also and said the source of the leak may never be found.  Independent Media TV
• Did Rove and Libby keep Bush in the dark about their conversations with reporters about Plame.  Or did Bush know about this?
• AP News October 8, 2005 headline: "Rove Denied to Bush He Engaged in Leak" article copy
• Oct 7, 2003: Rove told FBI he first spoke about Plame after Novak's column.  A lie? see Cooper  Bush said the same day, he doubted the DOJ would ever find out who the leaker was.  Lautenberg questioned the Bush statement Oct 10, 2003.  
• Bush only threatened to withhold docs under executive privilege, upon deadline to turn over docs, emails and phone logs to DOJ.  And was now laying groundwork for defense.  McClellan started conversation about difference between unauthorized disclosure and 'setting the facts straight'.  Independent Media TV
• also see Jason Leopold.com
• Oct 8, 2003: WP  reports on Bush doubts about finding leaker.  Bush said he is eager to find leaker,  5 pm deadline to surrender docs...etc.  filtered by WH, Oct 17 final surrender date with intermediate deadlines in between.
• Washington Post article mentions TWO top WH officials.  One of these officials (only one identifed) told the Post's Mike Allen and Dana Priest: "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge,"
• Current issue of Newsweek reported: Rove said Plame "fair game" ...in discussion with Chris Mathews, MSNBC Hardball.  Some are speculating the WH officials didn't know Plame's real id. Washington Post 9/8
• Oct 10, 2003: McClellan said at a briefing that Rove, Libby and Abrams "assured me they were not involved in this."
• Investigators are studying WH reaction to Wilson's first public attack on Bush's case about Iraq.  Washington Post 2/10
• Oct 17, 2003: final deadline for Whitehouse to turn over docs.
• Oct 2003: Wall Street Journal article on memo from Bureau of Intelligence and Research.  
• Nov 20, 2003: John J. Kokal, an official of the State Dept's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Near East and South division (INR/NESA) was found dead at the bottom of a window well at the State Dept's headquaters.  Fox News briefly mentioned it.  Truthseeker
• Nov 26, 2003  26. As part of the criminal investigation, LIBBY was interviewed by Special Agents of the FBI on or about October 14 and November 26, 2003, each time in the presence of his counsel. During these interviews, LIBBY stated to FBI Special Agents that:   indictment
• a. During a conversation with Tim Russert of NBC News on July 10 or 11, 2003, Russert asked LIBBY if LIBBY was aware that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. LIBBY responded to Russert that he did not know that, and Russert replied that all the reporters knew it. LIBBY was surprised by this statement because, while speaking with Russert, LIBBY did not recall that he previously had learned about Wilson's wife's employment from the Vice President.   indictment
• b. During a conversation with Matthew Cooper of Time magazine on or about July 12, 2003, LIBBY told Cooper that reporters were telling the administration that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA, but that LIBBY did not know if this was true; and
• c. LIBBY did not discuss Wilson's wife with New York Times reporter Judith Miller during a meeting with Miller on or about July 8, 2003.  indictment
• Dec, 2003 Ashcroft Plamegate briefings stopped.  Politics of Truth
• OSP disbanded Fall of 2003 Daily Kos
• Dec 2003 Fitzgerald (U.S. Attorney, Chicago) appointed.
• One of his (Fitzgerald) first acts was to make every White House suspect sign a document waiving their claim to confidentiality, and then he went after the press. Guardian  
• Conservative reaction: Maariv International "The Franklingate espionage scandal is beginning to look like a surfeit of hype forced into bed with a paucity of fact"    
• Search terms: Robert Luskin (Karl Rove's attorney), precious-metals dealer client convicted of money laundering for Colombian drug cartels paid Luskin $505,000 in gold bars later seized by feds.  Luskin: "I was completely obtuse on the optics of the situation".
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Oficials to sign waivers to overcome reporter obstacles to revealing sources. Pincus Novak said 'no partisan gunslinger' comment and "you know about it too". Was leak retaliation. Bush said 'find out the truth'. Scott McClellan quote "those individuals assured me they were not involved in this. And that's where it stands" Bush: leaker may never be found'. Bush threatened to withhold docs under executive privilege. McClellan spoke about difference between unauthorized disclosure and 'setting the facts straight'. Independent Media TV, Jason Leopold. Mike Allen and Dana Priest: "Clearly, it was meant purely and simply for revenge". Rove Newsweek 'far game' Chris Mathews, MSNBC. Hardball. Investigators are studying Whitehouse reaction to Wilson's first public attack on Bush's case about Iraq. Final deadline. Wall Street Journal article about Bureau of Intelligence Research. John J. Kokal, Near East and South Asia division found dead. Ashcroft briefings stopped. Fitzgerald appointed. Simone Ledeen, daughter of Michael Ledeen goes to Bahgdad, CPA, Coalition Provisional Authority, also brat pack, yellowcake. James Comey is godfather. Aides sign waivers to journalistic privilege. Staff meet informally about immunity. Mary matalin testifies. Pelosi Daschele, Lieberman, Rockefeller ask for GAO investigation of covert status. Jim Loebe knew. Cathie Martin (Cheney aid) interviewed, near combat atmosphere. Grand Jury subpoenas Air Force One phone logs. What was whitehouse PR strategy? Bush outside attorney James Sharp & Associates, Ken Starr removed attorney-client privilege for government lawyers in Clinton smear campaign. Glen Kessler discuss conversations. Bush interviewed by Fitzgerald, Sharp present. Kerry dumps Sandy Berger and Wilson from campaign. Federal Judge Thomas F. Hogan hold Time magazine report Mathew Cooper in contempt of cout and orders him jailed for refusing to reveal source of Plame leak. appeal goes to Supreme Court. politics of truth, joe wilson. 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Kahn.  David Kelly is confidant of Judith Miller and Pederson and Olivia Bosch at Royal Institute of international affairs.  Judge Ricardo Urbina and what did Thomas Dine confirm.  Patrick Dorton is AIPAC spokesperson.  Harold Rhode is source of plame leak and Jerry Hauer and cofer black.  lawmakers urged to support Iran Freedom and Support act and one of unnamed reporters is Glenn Kessler by David Ignatius.  USGO-1 is Kenneth Pollack and Bob Dole is baffled.  Iran 5 years away from nuclear weapons.  Miller and Zacarias Moussaoui together?  Michael Ledeen is Rove's brain.  Ted Olson was Pollard's defense attorney. July 14th, 15th 16th 17th 18th 19th 20th 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 August September October November December 2003 2004 2001

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