Is James Comey the "leaker" to the NY Times ?

[kentuck]

The Times quotes a "former senior adminstration official" in its report. Of course, for one short period of time, Comey was acting Attorney General while Ashroft was in the hospital. That could be called a "former senior Administration official", could it not? Considering that he appointed Fitzgerald during his short stint as "acting" Attorney-General also, he must have been a real headache for Bush and Co? So much so that they went around him, while he was still acting Attorney-General, to visit Ashcroft in the White House in order to get him to sign off on the "illegal" actions. It is not known if Ashcroft signed off or not? However, there are a lot of questions that need to be answered when Specter gets his committee up and running...

[Kagemusha]

1. Word is Bush started calling him "Cuomo".

I'd say that about sums it up.

[ewagner]

2. What I can't understand

is why they (The Justice Department) waited a year to go after the NYT and the "leaker". If Comey is suspected now, he most certainly would have been suspected last year.

I can clearly understand why Bush* would want to take revenge on Comey....can you say Scooter Libby? can you say Karl Rove?

Now, all together, say PATRICK FITZGERALD!

[0007]

9. PATRICK FITZGERALD!

I like Spitzer also.

[quaoar]

3. I'll go way out on a limb here

and predict that the leaker was not Comey. He would just be too obvious. When your opposition is well known to something you're the first one suspected of trying to sabotage it.

I'll say that the leaker was Ashcroft himself.

[hang a left]

5. That is interesting... he could be one of them....however I suspect

there is more than one source. Another question I have is the timing of the hopital visit. It was in March 04. What was going on at that time that they need permission for? And why the hell not just do it. So many questions.

[hang a left]

4. One of the things that makes me nervous about him is the private

sector position he took after leaving government. He is now the Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Lockheed Martin Corporation. Does that bother anyone else?

[chaumont58]

6. The thing I was wondering about today was what the leaker....

must have thought about the NY Times sitting on the story. If chimpie broke the law, why sit on the story for a year? More of this so-called liberal media!
The New York Times!?! What a pale shade it is of what it was in the past!

[AndyTiedye]

8. If They Published That Right Before the 2004 Election

Bushco would have had a very difficult time stealing the election and getting away with it.

The publisher of the Times obviously wanted to keep ** in the White House.

[chaumont58]

10. If one looks for a motive, that comes to mind first

chimpie gets bailed out, constantly, by our warm, wonderful, national political press corps. They have been doing it since he came on the scene. It boggles my poor little mind, especially when I compare it to the eight years they spent trashing Clinton.

[Garbo 2004]

7. Likely there are a number of "former senior Administration officials."

Would Wilkerson qualify for that title, for example? Powell, a member of the National Security Council, publically claims to have known nothing of the NSA surveillance. They don't discuss this sort of thing at NSC mtgs? Wilkerson sat in on NSC mtgs for Powell.

Not to suggest that Wilkerson or Powell had anything to do with the leak. Wilkerson, for example, might or might not be a considered a "former senior admin official." But I'd figure that there may be a number of "former sr. admin. officials" about, some of whom we might not recognize by name. Also, undoubtedly the NYT had sources in the intel community, certainly at minimum former employees if not some currrently serving. Not all of them, even at the NSA, were happy with the Bush administration's actions.