Reply #31: Jane Hamsher at firedoglake: "There are smoking guns all over the place"

[understandinglife]

There are smoking guns all over the place in the Libby indictment.

1. p. 7 - 19. "Not earlier than June 2003, but on or before July 8, 2003, the Assistant to the Vice President for Public Affairs learned from another government official that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and advised LIBBY of this information."

Assistant to the Vice President for Public Affairs from 2001-2004 was Catherine Martin. From Seymour Hersh's New Yorker article, 10/20/03:

In response to claims that Joe Wilson had circulated his Niger report prior to the State of the Union Address, Martin denied that Cheney had any knowledge of it. “The vice president doesn’t know Joe Wilson and did not know about his trip until he read about it in the press,” said Martin.

She learned from ANOTHER government official? Whole lot of people got some 'splainin to do.

Much more at the link:

http://firedoglake.blogspot.com/2005/10/smoking-guns.ht...

And, of course, Fitzgerald and his team already know how much singing LIBBY has done to keep his rap sheet to "only" five counts.


Peace.