How Fitzgerald can show Intent on Bolton and Cheney:

[jsamuel]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/19/85343/663

How Fitzgerald can show Intent on Bolton and Cheney:

Bolton and Cheney may be in deep trouble as indictments may come down any day. The "name game" just might come back to haunt them as it can show INTENT to out a covert operative.


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I deduced this myself from a comment Colin Powell made yesterday about the memo said "Valorie Wilson" and didn't say the name "Plame". This is an extremely important distinction because all the people in the WH first heard about Ms. Wilson from that memo.

When Novak outed her, he used the name "Plame". This allows the prosecutor to trace back to who called her "Plame". It is also significant because "Plame" is her undercover name and they had no reason to use it unless someone knew that she was undercover and knew what her undercover name was (it is actually her maiden name, but again they were trying to say that Ms. Wilson sent her husband to Niger, so using "Valorie Wilson" would have sufficed).

Anyway, the point being that someone had to look her up in the CIA and find out her undercover name, this shows that whoever originally leaked "Plame" knew she was undercover. Also, whoever then leaked "Plame" to the press instead of "Wilson" was probably using "Plame" instead of "Wilson" for a reason, which could be used to show intent.

There was one person who was both with Bolton, who requested CIA agents names around that time of the outing, and the WHIG group (Cheney's group). It was John Hannah. So, I believe that Hannah is the connection for why they told the press "Plame" instead of "Wilson" as he knew "Plame" from his boss Bolton and then told the WHIG group about "Plame" being her undercover name. If Hannah has indeed flipped, then that means that he knows enough to take both Bolton and Cheney down.

The place I found that Hannah has flipped is:

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheney_aide_cooperating_with_CIA_outing_1018.html

This has been speculated in the main stream media for over a year, but this is the first time someone has confirmed it with a "source close to the investigation."