The WHY of the leak, points to possible LEAKERS!

[skip fox]

The cover of a CIA agent was blown NOT for punishment of Wislon, NOR for a warning to others, but to undermine Wilson's credibility by implying his mission was self-initiated (thru his wife at the CIA). It was in error (his wife only provided the contact information so the CIA could give Wilson his directive--to look for yellow cake sales from Niger to Iraq). But the error did not matter. What did matter was immediately discrediting Wilson who was pointing fingers at Cheney and the White House for being remiss with his findings.

Therefore, it would be political operatives such as KARL ROVE and SCOOTER LIBBY, or maybe CHENEY himself!!!

[papau]

1. I Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff -looks ready to fall

From the ABCNote
""An article that appeared on the Time magazine Web site the same week Novak's column was published said that 'some government officials have noted to Time in interviews . . . that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.' The same article quoted from an interview with I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, saying that Cheney did not know about Wilson's mission 'until this year when it became public in the last month or so.'" One obvious implication of this is that the oft-press shy Libby was taking journalists' calls during the period when Plame's name was named, but, of course, that doesn't mean that Libby had anything to do with it."


(So today an unbiased Ashcroft gives an unpredented heads-up to the target of an investigation - and indeed gives direction to the target of an investigation about when they should preserve documents - so the ABCnote asks)"Who at DOJ notified Gonzales?".."Why didn't Gonzales act to preserve material earlier?"

[skip fox]

2. so sweet, he's one of the Neo-Cons as well!

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