A Timeline in Reporters' Contempt Case

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A Timeline in Reporters' Contempt Case

By The Associated Press

Tuesday, October 18, 2005



(10-18) 06:37 PDT , (AP) --

A timeline in the case of the leak of a CIA operative's name:

_February 2002: Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson is asked by the Bush administration to travel to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Niger sold yellowcake uranium to Iraq in the late 1990s for use in nuclear weapons.

_Jan. 28, 2003: In the State of the Union address, President Bush states that "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant aquantities of uranium from Africa" but does not mention that U.S. agencies had questioned the validity of the British intelligence.

_July 6: In a New York Times op-ed piece, Wilson writes that he could not verify that Niger sold uranium yellowcake to Iraq.

_July 14: Columnist Robert Novak identifies Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, as "a (CIA) operative on weapons of mass destruction." Novak cites "two senior administration officials" as his sources.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2005/10/18/national/w063709D00.DTL

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1. There are already lots of things missing by July 6, 2003.

You'd have to add all of the WHIG and OSP stuff, plus the June Judy Miller-Scooter Libby meeting.

Too much missing for AP.