Scarborough says (brand new on the wire): Libby got info from Cheney.

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Cheney got info from CIA's George Tenet.

edit for freeptardian spelling.

Joe also says this will be front page news tomorrow.

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1. Why would this info only be available from Joe?

I don't trust ONLY HIM.

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2. It is info that he just got from 'the wire'. It's news that's available

to everyone now. It's public.

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3. It does sound like a meme to shift the blame out of the White House, n/t

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8. Sounds like it to me too. eom

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5. From the NYT:

"Mr. Libby’s notes indicate that Mr. Cheney had gotten his information about Ms. Wilson from George J. Tenet, the director of central intelligence, in response to questions from the vice president about Mr. Wilson. But they contain no suggestion that either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilson’s undercover status or that her identity was classified. Disclosing a covert agent’s identity can be a crime, but only if the person who discloses it knows the agent’s undercover status.

It would not be illegal for either Mr. Cheney or Mr. Libby, both of whom are presumably cleared to know the government’s deepest secrets, to discuss a C.I.A. officer or her link to a critic of the administration. But any effort by Mr. Libby to steer investigators away from his conversation with Mr. Cheney could be considered by Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the special counsel in the case, to be an illegal effort to impede the inquiry...."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/24/politics/24cnd-leak.html?hp&ex=1130212800&en=db7d02c93e5913ef&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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6. "he strongly doubted that the W H learned about Ms. Plame from Mr. Tenet

more:

"Mr. Tenet was not available for comment on Monday night. But another former senior intelligence official said that Mr. Tenet had been interviewed by the special prosecutor and his staff in early 2004, and never appeared before the grand jury. Mr. Tenet has not talked since then to the prosecutors, the former official said.

The former official said he strongly doubted that the White House learned about Ms. Plame from Mr. Tenet."

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9. Must not be available to Faux News

At this moment Greta is reporting on the really big news...Aruba!

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4. Does this mean Tenet

will have to give up his medal?
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7. No. Tenet and Cheney have top security clearance.

It's OK for Geo to tell Dick. It's becomes illegal when anyone tell someone without clearance!

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10. How would Tenet NOT tell Cheney that she is an undercover agent?

He is HEAD of the CIA. If Tenet told Cheney of Wilsons job, as the HEAD of the CIA..wouldnt it make he sense he tell her she is an undercover agent?