Reply #27: This article is chock full of new facts.

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Here's a summary.

1. The AF1 memo originated from notes taken by a senior INR analyst at a Feb 19 2002 CIA meeting where Wilson's visit to Niger was discussed.

2. The memo was drafted June 10, 2002 and was directed to Undersecrtary Marc Grossman. It was all about why State didn't believe Saddam was trying to get uranium from Africa.

3. After Wilson went public Powell started asking about Wilson, the memo was reprinted and directed to Powell. This was July 6.

4. Luskin says (and therefore Rove testified) that he never read the memo and didn't even hear about it until he was questioned during the investigation.

5. Plame was identified in two sentences in a seven-sentence paragraph marked Secret, which is the designation used for covert agents.

We know from previous stories that Powell brought the memo on to an AF1 flight to Africa. Supposedly Rove was not on the flight.

But I think we can gather from this that Powell was able to name a bunch of senior administration officials who had seen the memo.