Plame Gig is Up: Who's Gonna Fall on the Knife?

[Nbadan]

The gig is up on the Plame CIA leak investigation. The Feds know who fed 5 Washington reporters confidential CIA secrets..


<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Post Source Reveals Identity to Leak Probers

By Susan Schmidt
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, September 16, 2004; Page A02

A Washington Post reporter's confidential source has revealed his or her identity to the special prosecutor conducting the CIA leak inquiry, a development that provides investigators with a fact they have been pursuing in the nearly year-long probe.

Post reporter Walter Pincus, who had been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury in the case, instead gave a deposition yesterday in which he recounted his conversation with the source, whom he has previously identified as an "administration official." Pincus said he did not name the source and agreed to be questioned only with the source's approval.

"I understand that my source has already spoken to the special prosecutor about our conversation on July 12 <2003>, and that the special prosecutor has dropped his demand that I reveal my source. Even so, I will not testify about his or her identity," Pincus said in a prepared statement.

"The source has not discharged us from the confidentiality pledge," said The Post's executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr.

Pincus and Post executives said they do not know whether the source is in legal jeopardy as a result of revealing his or her identity, saying that it is a matter for the prosecutor to<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END-->

So who is gonna fall on the knife this time for the administration?

[Nbadan]

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: September 16, 2004


REPORTER'S 2ND SUBPOENA IN C.I.A. CASE A Time magazine reporter, Matthew Cooper, was subpoenaed Tuesday for a second time in an inquiry into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert C.I.A. officer. After Mr. Cooper was ordered jailed last month for failing to name his sources, he gave testimony limited to his contacts with I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and the court withdrew its order. Time said Mr. Cooper testified with Mr. Libby's consent. The new subpoena apparently concerns information from other officials. Yesterday a Washington Post reporter, Walter Pincus, also testified. Mr. Pincus said he would not identify an official who discussed Ms. Plame's identity with him in July 2003, but agreed to recount the substance of his conversation with the official.

NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/national/16brfs.html)

[DeSPURado]

I can't wait until we get to the bottom of this.

[NeoConIV]

Dan Rather.

[DeSPURado]

bump

[Yonivore]

You left off nobody.

But, Joe Wilson has already fallen on the knife...his credibility is as valuable as Dan Rather's.