Reply #16: Yes, the reporter purchased the information, and he was led to it by his

[Catrina]

'sources' who he claims, are ex-CIA personnel. He doesn't tell us how long the info has been online, nor the name of the site from which he purchased it, so we just have to believe him. I looked him up, and was surprised to find that he is a veteran investigative reporter who has tangled with the Reagan/Bush administrations over cover-ups in the HIV/AIDS affairs.

So, why would he write such an aricle without doing any real investigative work, such as simply establishing for how long this information has been available, and how his 'sources' could state so unequivically, as one of them did, that Valerie Plame was 'not a NOC'?

Your theory is interesting and a little scary ~ I had a different theory, based on a thread started by Larisa last week, I believe, in which the company Choicepoint, a data mining company turned up ~

It seems this company has info on every, single American (and some foreigners also) all 300 million of us ~ they are also connected to the company infamous for its felon list in the 2000 election (they did help Bush get elected). Choicepoint, as I recall, may have been involved in Bush's illegal Domestic Spying program ~

So, my theory is that the cabal is in panic mode, and as another poster above pointed out, they only have one playbook, so they went back to it and once again are trying to use the 'Everyone knew what Valerie Plame did' story, despite the fact that court records now say otherwise. Maybe they called their old friends at Choicepoint, asked them to sell some info to one of those information sites, and then, using their 'swiftie' CIA agents, contacted the reporter to give him this non-story ~ and he didn't bother to find out how long this info has been there???

My advice to him is to remember the other journalists who were used by Rove. I think he's being used, although I would have thought he was smarter than this. I'm sure before long other reporters will be contacted, and whether they print what they're told or not, they too may end up in court ~

He might want to do a check on the site from he bought the information, and see if he can trace it back to Choicepoint ~ or maybe he already knows about that, and dares not publish it ~

I wanted to ask Larisa about that story she was working on ~ the one about the MTP show which she was told to watch, and take down the names of companies. That thread is where I first heard about Choicepoint and all their connections ~

As far as Armitage, apparently they're trying to make him the scapegoat and it's not news that Bradley knows Woodward's source, or what Woodward told him about it, because as I recall, Woodward had NOT told Bradley anything until he decided he had to go talk to Fitzgerald ~

Woodward has not revealed his source, although I remember it was said to be Hadley at the time ~ that they are doing all this distraction work, could mean they are expecting an indictment soon ~ or that Libby might flip when he realizes his amnesia defense isn't going to work ~ I just wish they'd hurry.