--- In [email protected], anonymousff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Coincidently, here are two points in a news report today germaine to > the following discussion. Per Rove, his information about Plame came > from two reporters, not the president or anyone in the WH -- making > the "sigh, the Pres can clear whomever he wants to know whatever he > wants them to know" argument particularly irrelevant. > > The second point is that Wilson acknowledges his wife was not in an > undercover job at the time Novak's column first identified her. Thus > it would appear the statue does not apply and Rove, for this and other > reasons, cannot be prosecuted under the statute. > > ****************** > > 1) Rove told the grand jury that by the time Novak had called him, he > believes he had similar information about Wilson's wife from another > member of the news media but he could not recall which reporter had > told him about it first, the person said.
But had he heard about it BEFORE being called by the media? Confirming, however casually, that rumored classified info is correct, is leaking classified info if you KNOW that the classified info is correct through official channels. That's why the "neither confirm nor deny line" is used. > > snip > > 2) But at the same time, Wilson acknowledged his wife was no longer in > an undercover job at the time Novak's column first identified her. "My > wife was not a clandestine officer the day that Bob Novak blew her > identity," he said. "the day that Bob Novak blew her identity" implies without saying that she was, that she was indeed covert the day before he blew her cover. In fact, I believe a followup question to that statement got a "neither confirm nor deny" response about whether or not she was covert the day before. In other words, we still don't know anything. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
