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March 27, 2006

Plame Update

by AltHippo @ 10:40 pm. Filed under Wilson/Plame

As I’m sure many of you know, Karl Rove has been cooperating with the Fitzgerald investigation: (Raw Story)

Karl Rove, Deputy White House Chief of Staff and special adviser to President George W. Bush, has recently been providing information to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the ongoing CIA leak investigation, sources close to the investigation say.

According to several Pentagon sources close to Rove and others familiar with the inquiry, Bush’s senior adviser tipped off Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to information that led to the recent “discovery” of 250 pages of missing email from the office of Vice President Dick Cheney.

The most straight-forward read on this is that Rove is rolling over on the office of the Vice President to avoid prosecution.

Commenters at JustOneMinute have a completely different take on where things are at with respect to the investigation. They’re looking at a potential civil lawsuit from Libby against his critics:

I haven’t considered it in depth , but in line with the Lee and Hatfill cases, if the case is dismissed without trial, perhaps Libby should consider civil suits against the NYT, Kristof, the WaPo and Pincus for initiating the false reports which led to this case.(Then we can see why Kristof and Pincus ignored Wilson’s “I was misquoted” claims.)

That was from Clarice Feldman, a regular poster on JustOneMinute. When I say regular, what I mean is that the comment thread is largely Clarice Feldman.

I’ll make a confession, here. When I first saw Clarice’s posts on JustOneMinute a few months ago, I wondered if she was a creation of Tom Maguire’s imagination.

I’ll look into it and see what I can come up with.

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3 Responses to “Plame Update”

  1. Tom Maguire Says:
    March 28th, 2006 at 12:55 pm

    Let me know what you find out. Thanks.

  2. AltHippo Says:
    March 29th, 2006 at 10:01 am

    Ah, Mr. Maguire. We meet once again.

    I’ll let you know what I come up with.

  3. Tom Maguire Says:
    April 20th, 2006 at 1:35 pm

    Troubling - like Libby his bad self, I am experiencing this meeting as if for the very first time.

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