The Plame Affair: Update
No, the Valerie Plame affair isn’t over. Bush, Rove & Co. did what they needed to do: they stalled the investigation until after the election. But that doesn’t mean that someone won’t go to jail after all.
Susan Schmidt’s story in today’s Washington Post doesn’t really tell us much, except that the invesitgation is still ticking along. The prosecution side seems not to be leaking, so the reporter’s only sources are some of the grand jury witnesses and the lawyers for some of the potential defendants.
If they’re to be believed, Fitzgerald’s team is focusing on the question of who in the government might have been talking about Plame before the Novak story broke. The Intelligence Identities Protection Act doesn’t cover previously revealed information. The Espionage Act might, but the story gives no hint that any Espionage Act prosecutions are planned.
One question I hope Fitzgerald’s staff is asking: Who told Clifford May, a GOP flack who’s been masquerading as journalist at NRO, about Valerie Plame’s identity as a covert CIA officer weeks before Novak published his story? May said in print that some former offical had told him that, back when the Bushies’ line was that Plame’s identity wasn’t actually a secret in the first place. I hope he’s been given an opportunity to explain in detail to the Grand Jury.
November 27th, 2004 at 9:53 pm
Valerie Plame lives!
Or at least the investigation into who outed her isn’t dead. I have some thoughts up at The American Street….
November 27th, 2004 at 10:47 pm
“Susan Schmidt’s story in today’s Washington Post doesn’t really tell us much, except that the invesitgation is still ticking along. The prosecution side seems not to be leaking…”
And they made her work on the story anyway? That must be so WEIRD. Huggggggs {{{{{susu}}}}}
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