Clemons: MSNBC stands by Bolton/Plame testimony story

[swag]

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000797.html

David Schuster of MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews made a whopper revelation about grand jury testimony in the Valerie Plame-outing investigation: John Bolton has testified about the top secret document that Colin Powell had aboard Air Force One.

TWN has confirmed with MSNBC that it it standing by its story.

Shuster's report yesterday:

DAVID SHUSTER, NBC CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A witness who testified at the grand jury and lawyers for other witnesses say the memo was written in July of 2003, identified Valerie Wilson, also known as Valerie Plame, as a CIA officer, and cited her in a paragraph marked S for sensitive.

According to lawyers, former Secretary of State Colin Powell and undersecretaries, including John Bolton, gave testimony about this memo. And a lawyer for one State Department official says his client testified that, as President Bush was flying to Africa on Air Force One two years ago, Press Secretary Ari Fleischer could be seen reading the document on board.

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[Beetwasher]

1. And Bolton DID NOT DISCLOSE THIS TO THE SENATE!!!!

He's required to disclose this for his confirmation hearing! Ha Ha! Busted! NO UN FOR YOU!!!

[babylonsister]

3. And also why the blivet couldn't crown him in the recess! nt

[aquart]

7. Why?

What has law to do with George?

[globalvillage]

5. Does it say when Bolton testified?

I don't think it mentions if he testified before or after his hearings. That is important.
He's still going down, IMO.

[dogday]

2. The More Rove and Libby attack the media

The more the media is going to attack them.
Who is going to win?
I hope this time the media does.

[rodeodance]

8. the media did not cover the Waxman Rovegate hearings!--I do not

have hope they the media with push this. more interested in London.

[dogday]

10. Boy you can say that again... I am so sick

of hearing about London.

[kliljedahl]

17. Not "Rovegate", "Traitorgate"

Keith’s Barbeque Central

[geek tragedy]

4. So, is Richard Armitage the leaker? He HATES the Libby neocons.

I imagine he's none too fond of Bolton either.

[barbaraann]

6. That would just blow my mind.

Richard Armitage a hero of the left. Is that possible?

[aquart]

9. Who?

Richard Armitage?

Pleading pathetic ignorance.

This guy, right? <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage>

[geek tragedy]

11. Here's his wikipedia entry:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage

<snip>
Armitage left this post in 1989 to serve as a special negotiator for the President on military bases in the Philippines, and as a mediator on water issues in the Middle East. In 1991, he was appointed a special emissary to King Hussein of Jordan. Following this, he was sent to Europe with the title of ambassador; his assignment was to direct U.S. foreign aid to the states that had been formed out of the fallen Soviet Union. He served here until 1993, at which point he entered the private sector.

He signed "The Project for the New American Century" letter (PNAC Letter) to President Bill Clinton in 1998. The letter urged Clinton to target the removal of Saddam Hussein's regime from power in Iraq due to erosion of the Gulf War Coalition's containment policy and the resulting possibility that Iraq might create weapons of mass destruction. The letter's intended purpose of removing Hussein was to protect Israel and other U.S. allies in the region including oil-producing Arab countries.

The United States Senate confirmed him as Deputy Secretary of State on March 23, 2001; he was sworn in on March 26 of the same year. A close associate of Secretary of State Colin Powell, Armitage was regarded, along with Powell, as a moderate within the presidential administration of George W. Bush. Armitage tendered his resignation on November 16, 2004, the day after Powell announced his resignation as Secretary of State. Armitage left the post on February 22, 2005, when Robert Zoellick succeeded the office.
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[lovuian]

12. Ari Fleischer does he have that high a security to see that Memo

and everybody sitting there didn't know that???

[stray cat]

13. David Schuster knows his stuff - he is one of the better reporters

[liveoaktx]

14. Vidclip from Hardball

David Schuster on the memo

[realFedUp]

15. the leak in the sewer line.

this one's a gusher.

[UTUSN]

16. Kick n/t