Isn't it kind of ironic that Scooter Libby is being charged for having said "that's what reporters are saying". That's what reporters WERE saying! According to Andrea Mitchell, most reporters knew Wilson had a wife, now they'resaying that they didn't even know Joe had a wife. Go figure.
"I until that point didn't know Wilson had a wife." - Matt Cooper
"I didn't know Wilson had a wife." - Walter Pincus
"And among the other things, I didn't know he had a wife." - Scooter Libby
Questions:
1. Who told you Wilson was sent to Niger by his wife?
2. Who told you a bipartisan Senate panel concluded that Joe Wilson was lying when he denied that his wife had sent him to Niger?
3. Who was the first person to correct you on your assumption that Niger wasn't the same as Nigeria?
4. Who was the first person to tell you that Joe Wilson could not speak Nigerian?
In Closing Arguments, Fitzgerald Points the Finger at Dick Cheney:
"When Fitzgerald finished, Judge Walton felt the need to step in. “I’m going to give you another cautionary,” he told the jury. “The truth of whether someone could be harmed based upon the disclosure of people working in a covert capacity is not at issue in this case. Remember what I have told you several times. Mr. Libby is not charged with leaking classified information.”And with that, the day ended."
Read more:
'Scooter Who?'
By Byron York
National Review, February 21, 2007
http://tinyurl.com/29q9wq
Joe the diplomat and Val the undercover girl:
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