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Originally Posted by reconmike
Host, do you want to paste tons of shit to correct one of your own, guy44 as to who actually leaked Plame's name to the press?
Or should I do it? (just took a cut and paste for republicans course) :P
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Say reconmike, let's do a little correcting of your post, OK?
First, here's what I said:
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I'm like 99.9% sure Libby is guilty as fuck and should go to jail for life for disclosing the name of an undercover CIA agent for political gains
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Now, this isn't very complicated. Armitage was the first person to leak the name. But before that was ever published, Libby was already doing his best to be the one to
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Miller reports:
... in an interview with me on June 23 [2003], Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, discussed Mr. Wilson's activities and placed blame for intelligence failures on the C.I.A. In later conversations with me, on July 8 and July 12 [2003], Mr. Libby, ... [at the time] Mr. Cheney's top aide, played down the importance of Mr. Wilson's mission and questioned his performance. ... My notes indicate that well before Mr. Wilson published his critique, Mr. Libby told me that Mr. Wilson's wife may have worked on unconventional weapons at the C.I.A. ... My notes do not show that Mr. Libby identified Mr. Wilson's wife by name [i.e., Valerie Plame]. Nor do they show that he described Valerie Wilson as a covert agent or "operative"
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Since Novack's column came out on July 14, six and twelve days after Miller's conversations with Libby respectively, Libby was clearly, as I wrote, disclosing the name of an undercover CIA agent for political gains (even if he didn't technically name her, like a NY Times reporter can't find out who the wife of a former ambassador is).
So, did Libby leak the name to the press? Yes. Did his leak happen to lead to the first article about Plame? No. But that doesn't mean he wasn't trying.