Explaining Plame, part 4: Flipping Cheney's WHIG

[rodeodance]

interesting specualtion (like most of what we have heard/read for last few weeks).


http://www.needlenose.com/blog/3

> Explaining Plame, part 4: Flipping Cheney's WHIG
> By Swopa
> Oct 27 2005 - 12:45am
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> Given how hard Libby and Rove tried to keep their fingerprints off the actual leaking, it would make no sense for them to brazenly incriminate themselves in meetings with people who didn't need to know the dirt they were spreading. In fact, as I wrote on Saturday, I don't think Rove himself was necessarily in on the origin of the leak.
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> As Joseph Wilson wrote in his book, he believes that "either the vice president himself or, more likely, his chief of staff, Lewis ("Scooter") Libby, chaired a meeting at which a decision was made to do a 'workup' on me." From there, I think Steve Clemons followed the right path with his analysis a couple of days ago:
> The question is how did Libby then churn up more info on Wilson without other parts of the "untrusted" bureaucracy spitting in his face or reporting his sins?
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> My hunch is that he went to trusted spear-carriers for Vice President Cheney -- the office and staff of Under Secretary of State John Bolton. Fred Fleitz, Bolton's chief of staff, maintained his CIA WINPAC portfolio and access as an active duty CIA staff member while he operated as Bolton's "acting" chief of staff. . . .
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> We also know that David Wurmser and John Hannah, who have both apparently cooperated after threats of legal action (i.e., time behind bars) with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald worked both for John Bolton's operation and the Vice President's office.......
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[texpatriot2004]

1. I like the Plame title nm