Ari Fleischer and Judy Miller BOTH RAT OUT Scooter Libby

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:47pm

If the jury believes Ari, Scooter goes to jail.

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MICHAEL ISIKOFF on MSNBC:

It is probably the most significant testimony in the case to date. Ari Fleischer testified that he had this lunch with Scooter Libby, passed along the information about Valerie Plame – few days before the conversation with Tim Russert where Libby says he first learned it. Russert, of course, denies that he ever had such a conversation with Libby.

What's significant is the detail that Fleischer provided. He said that Libby told him not just that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, but that she worked at the counter-proliferations division. That was a particular detail that is significant to people who know about the CIA. The counter-proliferations division is in the Director of Operations. That's the secret arm of the CIA. It's the most sensitive arm of the CIA. Something that Libby and his boss, Vice President Dick Cheney, very well knew. They knew the CIA like the back of their hands.

In addition, Fleischer said, that he believed that Libby provided her name, Valerie Plame. That's a detail we have not heard before. And of course, Fleischer said "hush, hush," "the QT" and Fleischer took it to be newsworthy – something that people would want to know.

Updated On: 1/30/07 at 02:47 PM

[Calvin]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:50pm

What's the over/under on how long someone named Scooter stays untouched in prison?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 2:51pm

Here's the AP article from 2:22 EST

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Fleischer said the conversation happened July 7, 2003, days before Libby told investigators he was surprised to learn about the CIA operative from a reporter. That discrepancy is at the heart of Libby's perjury and obstruction trial....

Fleischer is a key witness because, as Fitzgerald said in his opening statement: "You can't learn something on Thursday that you're giving out on Monday."
Fleischer Recalls Discussion About Plame

[Borstalboy]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 3:56pm

This looks simply scandalous! The question is: Will the press give a damn?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 4:24pm

You bet your ass they will. This is the worst admission of White House wrongdoing since Watergate.

THE WHITE HOUSE COMMITTED A CRIME AND MADE REPORTERS ACCOMPLICES!

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During afternoon testimony, Fleischer told jurors that, a few days after his lunch with Libby, Fleischer had relayed the fact that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA to two reporters while they were covering a trip Bush made to Africa.

According to Fleischer, he passed on the information to the reporters, NBC's David Gregory and Time magazine's John Dickerson, as they were walking alongside a road in Uganda.

The former press secretary said that, in addition to learning about Plame from Libby, he also had just heard another White House aide, then-communications director Dan Bartlett, "vent" about news accounts that Cheney had asked for Wilson's trip. Fleischer said he was in the senior staff cabin of Air Force 1 during the Africa trip when he overheard Bartlett say out loud that Wilson's wife had sent him on the mission to Niger.

He testified that neither Libby nor Bartlett gave him any reason to believe that Plame's employment was classified.

"I never in my wildest dreams thought this information would be classified," he said.

Fleischer, who left the White House in mid-July 2003, said that in September, about 2 1/2 months after his conversation with the reporters, he saw a news account that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate a possibly illegal leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.

"I was absolutely horrified to know I had played a role," Fleischer said. "I thought, 'Oh my God. Did I play a role in somehow outing a CIA officer. . . . Did I just do something that I could be in big trouble for.' "

He said that he hired lawyers and ultimately agreed to be interviewed by investigators after receiving immunity from prosecution.

Fleischer Tells Jury That Libby Told Him About Plame

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 4:42pm

I can't imagine this amounting to anything sinificant in the press. They are Bushwhacked.

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 4:45pm

I can't imagine this amounting to anything sinificant in the press.

The truest thing written here all day.

[DG]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 4:46pm

It's hard for me not to see this as all planned to set up Cheney's resignation - which is what I think they want anyway.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 4:47pm

sureley the press misses ari....scottie & pony are just bad, clumsy hamhanded fools...but ari was such an elegant liar!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 5:07pm

Sharon--how much do you want to bet?

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 6:12pm

Sharon--how much do you want to bet?

I don't know pansy. So far Ariana and her girls have put the story out there. I'm all for this being front page news. The real question is will the media take this as far as it needs to go? Will it be lead story on drudge today but forgotten tomorrow? The Bush administration needs to be dealt with. I just don't have enough faith in our media or justice dept to get anything REALLY done.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 6:42pm

I said how much do you want to bet, Fake-Picture-Boy?

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 7:15pm

Let's see...

Articles so far on AP, ABC, NBC, CBS, Wall Street Journal, Forbes, LA Times, NY Times, Wash Post and according to Google News 583 other outlets.

You want links? GET 'EM YOUR OWN DAMN SELF.

And the pull quote everywhere is "I thought, 'Oh my God. Did I somehow play a role in outing a CIA operative?' " Fleischer said.

You are SO not who you pretend to be, Sharon.

[Ciaron McCarthy]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 7:44pm

I said how much do you want to bet, Fake-Picture-Boy?

Huh? Now my picture is fake? HAHA

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 7:45pm

It's even worse than Whitewatergate.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:15pm

Ooooooooooooh...and TRAVELGATE!

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:27pm

But it won't be as bad as Monicagate until we find out who Scooter blew and when he knew who he blew.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:39pm

im still interested in GANNONGATE

[FindingNamo]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 8:42pm

Otherwise known as The World's Pushiest Bottomgate.

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 9:47pm

I see that time doesn't guarantee any increase in one's intellectual capacity. A person actually has to open one's mind and learn something.

Updated On: 1/29/07 at 09:47 PM

[PalJoey]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:00pm

Hey Chanti--what do you call someone who reveals the classified status of a covert CIA operative doing important work in Iranian nuclear proliferation? A traitor? NO!

A MEMBER OF THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHA!

Get it? A member of the BUSH Administration!

Updated On: 1/29/07 at 10:00 PM

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:24pm

Do you know who revealed the name, or did the NYT fail to print that too?

And as you know, it's not chanti.

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:28pm

kootchie koo, Chantipoo!

[HDThoreau2]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:54pm

I notice that no one explained who leaked the name. Oh wait, that's not important any more-not to the elites anyway.

Updated On: 1/29/07 at 10:54 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 1/29/07 at 10:59pm

Chantipoo, i posted a thread about your One true Father, Rev Sung Yung Moon, this morning...why didnt you weigh in?