Reply #18: Swopa: A trail of Plame, from Air Force Two to Air Force One

[understandinglife]

... by the short-lived passage Josh Marshall (http://tinyurl.com/dbrs2) rescued from a Washington Post story today:

the vice president instructed his aide to alert reporters of an attack launched that morning on Wilson's credibility by Fleischer, according to a well-placed source.

Libby talked to Miller and Cooper. That same day, another administration official who has not been identified publicly returned a call from Walter Pincus of The Post. He "veered off the precise matter we were discussing" and told him that Wilson's trip was a "boondoggle" set up by Plame, Pincus has written in Nieman Reports.

The part in italics was deleted from a later version of the Post article (http://tinyurl.com/bexz6).

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If Ari was returning a series of calls -- and let's say he had help from someone else, since there were several calls to return -- and was telling them about Wilson's wife, wouldn't that make Air Force One the likely place -- as I've been saying since mid-July (http://tinyurl.com/75xgx) -- where "two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and disclosed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife" (in the words of the Post's famous 2003 story (http://tinyurl.com/p7lf) that broke the scandal open)?

What I think the Post and Marshall are trying to imply is that those calls from Air Force One were specifically orchestrated by Libby, based on Cheney's instructions on Air Force Two. And special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has sources on both planes to back that theory up.

More at the link:

http://www.needlenose.com/node/view/2205

And, I can just imagine one of those folk on AF1 shouting back at Cheney and Libby on AF2 -- "get that *&^%er Wilson."

18 USC 793 (http://tinyurl.com/8surl), 794 (http://tinyurl.com/dqtb2), & 798 .... and conspiracy to commit, as well.


Peace.