flushing things out of the bushes - TREASONGATE

[radfringe]

new names have been flushed out of the bushes regarding treasongate

on Sunday morning blather - GONZALES said he told ANDREW CARD about the CIA investigation... http://www.nbc30.com/news/4763410/detail.html

The White House isn't responding to questions about when top officials were informed about an investigation into the revelation of a CIA operative's identity. The first person notified by the Justice Department, then-White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, said he told chief of staff Andy Card immediately, but waited 12 hours to tell anyone else in the executive mansion.

and our old "buddy"....

John Bolton, R.I.P.
John Bolton will never be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
http://raggedthots.blogspot.com/2005/07/john-bolton-rip.html

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But then consider what has become known -- and what new questions have arisen -- in the last 48 hours: Richard Keil of Bloomberg News reports that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald maybe looking at testimony of Karl Rove and Scooter Libby that could be in conflict with testimony given by various journalists.

That suddenly brings into sharp focus the possibility that Rove and Libby may be facing serious legal trouble. On top of that, the Times story Friday discusses the State Department memo that clearly identified Valerie Plame (Wilson) as being undercover with the CIA -- and whether former press secretary Ari Fleischer had access to it.

Then, as Josh Marshall points out, as part of her confirmation hearings for a State Department public relations position, Karen Hughes was, by law, obligated to answer a questionnaire, that among other things, asked whether there were any legal proceedings to which she might be a be part of: She admitted that she had testified before Fitzgerald's grand jury. Marshall points out, Bolton answered "no" on the questionnaire -- though, it turns out he also testified before the grand jury on the contents of the Plame memo.

If Bolton intentionally misled the Senate in his questionnaire, he's toast. End of story. But, that's relevant to the big picture.

The key is revealed in Clemons' latest post: He asserts that Bolton was a major source for NYT's Judith Miller, currently incarcerated for refusing to surrender a source's name to the Fitzgerald grand jury. Now, one has to toss in a couple of caveats here: Steve, of course, has to depend on an anonymous source that somehow "knows" that Bolton was an anonymous source for many of Miller's stories.

[tavalon]

1. So, Alberto Gonzales can talk with impunity about an ongoing investigation

but Scottie continues to be a broken record? I suppose the incongruity is lost on this administration and probably the public as well.