Bolton in the clear. It is Marc Grossman

[kpete]

October 28, 2005
Under Secretary Source was Grossman
Bolton in the clear.

This from a tuned-in TWN reader. His comment seems right:

The Undersecretary of State referenced in the indictment is not John Bolton -- it is Marc Grossman, the former U/S for Political Affairs. Because Powell and Armitage were out of the country at the time, Grossman was Acting Sec State. Hence, the State Department's INR forwarded Grossman the memo on the Niger stuff and Plame and Wilson's role, and Grossman forwarded it on to the White House. Nothing sinister -- Grossman was just peforming his bureaucratic function.

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/

[DeepModem Mom]

1. Another item about his subject, saying it's Grossman --

"Since Fitzgerald's report did not name the unindicted, reporters scrambled Friday to identify the "undersecretary of state" who reported to Libby that CIA operative Valerie Plame was involved in sending her husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV , to Niger to check out Iraqi efforts to obtain uranium.

An adroit aide to U.N. Ambassador John R. Bolton took the initiative to inform reporters it was not Bolton. A good idea, since most reporters had speculated it was likely Bolton. The aide circulated an Associated Press story suggesting, correctly, that it was probably Marc Grossman, undersecretary for political affairs until early this year."

WP, In the Loop, Al Kamen
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/30/AR2005103000823.html