Paul Courson, Brianna Keilar, and Brian Todd, U.S. v. Libby Indictment: "Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community.". Further, it is not clear that engaging in temporary duty travel overseas would make a CIA employee who is based in Washington eligible for protection under the IIPA. In March 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that the investigation had cost $2.58 million. A statement released by Wells read "We remain firmly convinced of Mr. Libby's innocence. [134] Cheney had considerable disdain for the CIA, as he spoke of the incompetence of the organization, and three times said "amateur hour" in reference to CIA actions. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. It was July 21, 2003, barely a week since a column by Robert Novak in The Washington Post had named my wife, Valerie, as a CIA officer, and now the host of Hardball was calling to tell me that as far as the White House was concerned, they had declared open season on my family. I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person, and I've often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, I did it. But it remained unclear whether the change, which was not contested by the prosecutors, would matter in jury deliberations," and some speculated that Libby's conversation with Miller would be dropped from count 1 of the indictment. [7], In his January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address, US President George W. Bush said "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. He is fluent in French, and, during his diplomatic career prior to the trip, he had served as a U.S. State Department general services officer in Niger, as an ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in both Brazzaville and Iraq (taking over as Chief of Mission during the 1990–91 Gulf War), in other diplomatic postings, and in subsequent national security and military advisory roles concerning U.S.-African affairs under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. and I said, 'I think his wife works out there. [99], According to press accounts, Cheney told investigators that he had learned of Mrs. Wilson's employment by the CIA and her potential role in her husband being sent to Niger from then-CIA director George Tenet, though it's unclear whether Cheney was made aware of her classified status. So that's why we took no action. Luskin then revealed to Fitzgerald that it was he who instructed Rove to have his aides find any records of that contact. That's a phrase of a journalist. [204] On October 26, 2005, her former CIA colleague Larry Johnson told Wolf Blitzer, on the CNN program The Situation Room, that she "had received death threats overseas from Al-Qaeda"; according to Johnson, after the FBI contacted her and told her of the threat made by al-Qaeda, she called the CIA and asked for security protection but was told: "you will have to rely upon 9-1-1. ", were Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions." According to Rizzo, after the CIA assessment of Novak's column, "the Plame leak appeared to be a most unlikely candidate for a full blown Justice/FBI investigation." The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.
Now I'm much less ambivalent. I didn't try to out anybody.
That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that, at the request of Fitzgerald, I have kept secret." Mr. Fitzgerald has affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges. Libby told the grand jury "it seemed to me as if I was learning it for the first time" when, according to his account, Russert told him about Plame on July 10 or 11, 2003.
I believe he meant that was the kind of inside information that my late partner, Rowland Evans, and I had featured in our column for so long. Libby told investigators he believed at the time that the information about Plame had come from Russert. [46], In a review of Plame's memoir, Fair Game, Alan Cooperman wrote for The Washington Post that "by her own account, Valerie Wilson neither came up with the idea [of sending Joe Wilson to Niger] nor approved it. Sends the Wrong Message to the World", "Was Berlusconi Behind the Pre-Iraq War Yellow Cake Story?" [3][26], The Wilsons also brought a civil lawsuit against Libby, Dick Cheney, Rove, and Armitage, in Wilson v. Her aim, she told colleagues, was to put in time as an administrator – to rise up a notch or two – and then return to secret operations.
Ms. Wilson worked on some of the most sensitive and highly secretive matters handled by the CIA. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified as a prosecution witness that on July 7, 2003, Libby told Fleischer, "Ambassador Wilson was sent by his wife.
"[196], In a January 9, 2006, letter addressed to "Scooter" Libby's defense team, Patrick Fitzgerald responded to a discovery request by Libby's lawyers for both classified and unclassified documents. Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite. The note Libby referred to contains no suggestion that either Cheney or Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilson's undercover status or that her identity was classified, but they do show that Cheney did know and told Libby that Ms. Wilson was employed by the CIA and that she may have helped arrange her husband's trip. During court proceedings, when the jury was not present, Walton told the court: "I don't know, based on what has been presented to me in this case, what her status was. "[191], In contrast, in an October 27, 2005, appearance on Larry King Live, Bob Woodward commented: "They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that [former ambassador] Joe Wilson's wife [Plame] was outed. Rove also reiterated that he first learned of Plame from another reporter, though would not disclose which reporter. I didn't put any big import on it and I just answered and it was the last question we had." [181] When asked why no internal investigation was conducted or disciplinary actions taken after he took office, Knodell replied "there was already an outside investigation that was taking place, a criminal investigation. [7], In the book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, as Corn observes (before its release on September 8, 2006), they[incomprehensible] consider the issue of "whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there", presenting "new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. Saying so over an open phone line itself would have been a security breach. '"[189] In an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times, Joe Wilson wrote "She immediately started jotting down a checklist of things she needed to do to limit the damage to people she knew and to projects she was working on. Libby was also alleged by prosecutors to have lied to the FBI and a federal grand jury in claiming that when he mentioned Plame's name to two reporters—Matthew Cooper, then of Time magazine, and Judith Miller, then of The New York Times—he was careful to point out to them he was simply repeating rumors that he had heard from Russert. Leak", "Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak", "The Real Story behind the Armitage Story", "Novak Memoir: Armitage Wanted Plame Named", "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER transcript for November 11, 2007", "Source Tells AP About Rove's Grand Jury Testimony on Plame Leak", The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir, "Lawyer Says Rove Talked to Reporter, Did Not Leak Name", "Obvious Question in Plame Case Had Early Answer", "Journalists Name Additional Leak Sources", "Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia IN RE: GRAND JURY SUBPOENA, JUDITH MILLER", "Rove Will Not Be Charged in CIA Leak Case, Lawyer Says", "Government's Response to Court's Inquiry regarding News Articles the Government Intends to Offer As Evidence At Trial (PDF)", "FBI Agent: Libby, Cheney May Have Discussed Plame", "Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Several years and many court dates later, we know that the message apparently didn't get through, but Novak never told Bill that he was going to ignore his advice to leave Valerie's name out of his article.[60]. ", As a result of her exposure as a CIA operative, Mrs. Wilson testified: "I could no longer perform the work for which I had been highly trained." The following is stated regarding Plame: Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's employment status was classified. In the motion, the DOJ states: Therefore, if law enforcement interviews of the President, Vice President or other senior White House officials become subject to routine public disclosure, even upon the conclusion of an investigation, there is an increased likelihood that such officials could feel reluctant to participate in voluntary interviews or, if they agree to such voluntary interviews, could decline to answer questions on certain topics. She testified that "I could count on one hand the number of people who knew where my true employer was the day that I was—my name was—and true affiliation was exposed in July 2003. Officer, Notes Show", "Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic", "Court Hears Libby Describe Cheney as 'Upset' at Critic", "First Witnesses May Bolster Libby Defense", "Libby Describes Forgetting, Relearning CIA Operative's Identity", "In Closing Pleas, Clashing Views on Libby's Role", "FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney", "Juror Explains Libby Verdict: They Felt He Was 'Fall Guy, "Libby Prosecutor Asks for No Leniency in Sentence", "Libby's Lawyers Argue Against Prison as Fitzgerald Seeks 30 Months", "Was Libby's Prison Sentence 'excessive'? ARMITAGE: Yeah. "[107][108], On May 25, 2007, in a court filing, Fitzgerald asked Judge Reggie B. Walton to sentence Libby to 30 to 37 months in jail, because Libby had "expressed no remorse, no acceptance of responsibility and no recognition that there is anything he should have done differently." On July 12, 2007, President Bush held a press conference and was asked about his commutation of Libby's prison sentence. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There are some major legal issues surrounding the allegations of illegality by administration officials in the CIA leak scandal, including Executive Order 12958, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the Espionage Act, Title 18 Section 641, conspiracy to impede or injure officers, the Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, other laws and precedents, perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and compelling the media to testify. Mrs. Plame, as she indicated, was covert.
Paul Courson, Brianna Keilar, and Brian Todd, U.S. v. Libby Indictment: "Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community.". Further, it is not clear that engaging in temporary duty travel overseas would make a CIA employee who is based in Washington eligible for protection under the IIPA. In March 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that the investigation had cost $2.58 million. A statement released by Wells read "We remain firmly convinced of Mr. Libby's innocence. [134] Cheney had considerable disdain for the CIA, as he spoke of the incompetence of the organization, and three times said "amateur hour" in reference to CIA actions. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. It was July 21, 2003, barely a week since a column by Robert Novak in The Washington Post had named my wife, Valerie, as a CIA officer, and now the host of Hardball was calling to tell me that as far as the White House was concerned, they had declared open season on my family. I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person, and I've often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, I did it. But it remained unclear whether the change, which was not contested by the prosecutors, would matter in jury deliberations," and some speculated that Libby's conversation with Miller would be dropped from count 1 of the indictment. [7], In his January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address, US President George W. Bush said "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. He is fluent in French, and, during his diplomatic career prior to the trip, he had served as a U.S. State Department general services officer in Niger, as an ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in both Brazzaville and Iraq (taking over as Chief of Mission during the 1990–91 Gulf War), in other diplomatic postings, and in subsequent national security and military advisory roles concerning U.S.-African affairs under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. and I said, 'I think his wife works out there. [99], According to press accounts, Cheney told investigators that he had learned of Mrs. Wilson's employment by the CIA and her potential role in her husband being sent to Niger from then-CIA director George Tenet, though it's unclear whether Cheney was made aware of her classified status. So that's why we took no action. Luskin then revealed to Fitzgerald that it was he who instructed Rove to have his aides find any records of that contact. That's a phrase of a journalist. [204] On October 26, 2005, her former CIA colleague Larry Johnson told Wolf Blitzer, on the CNN program The Situation Room, that she "had received death threats overseas from Al-Qaeda"; according to Johnson, after the FBI contacted her and told her of the threat made by al-Qaeda, she called the CIA and asked for security protection but was told: "you will have to rely upon 9-1-1. ", were Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions." According to Rizzo, after the CIA assessment of Novak's column, "the Plame leak appeared to be a most unlikely candidate for a full blown Justice/FBI investigation." The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.
Now I'm much less ambivalent. I didn't try to out anybody.
That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that, at the request of Fitzgerald, I have kept secret." Mr. Fitzgerald has affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges. Libby told the grand jury "it seemed to me as if I was learning it for the first time" when, according to his account, Russert told him about Plame on July 10 or 11, 2003.
I believe he meant that was the kind of inside information that my late partner, Rowland Evans, and I had featured in our column for so long. Libby told investigators he believed at the time that the information about Plame had come from Russert. [46], In a review of Plame's memoir, Fair Game, Alan Cooperman wrote for The Washington Post that "by her own account, Valerie Wilson neither came up with the idea [of sending Joe Wilson to Niger] nor approved it. Sends the Wrong Message to the World", "Was Berlusconi Behind the Pre-Iraq War Yellow Cake Story?" [3][26], The Wilsons also brought a civil lawsuit against Libby, Dick Cheney, Rove, and Armitage, in Wilson v. Her aim, she told colleagues, was to put in time as an administrator – to rise up a notch or two – and then return to secret operations.
Ms. Wilson worked on some of the most sensitive and highly secretive matters handled by the CIA. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified as a prosecution witness that on July 7, 2003, Libby told Fleischer, "Ambassador Wilson was sent by his wife.
"[196], In a January 9, 2006, letter addressed to "Scooter" Libby's defense team, Patrick Fitzgerald responded to a discovery request by Libby's lawyers for both classified and unclassified documents. Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite. The note Libby referred to contains no suggestion that either Cheney or Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilson's undercover status or that her identity was classified, but they do show that Cheney did know and told Libby that Ms. Wilson was employed by the CIA and that she may have helped arrange her husband's trip. During court proceedings, when the jury was not present, Walton told the court: "I don't know, based on what has been presented to me in this case, what her status was. "[191], In contrast, in an October 27, 2005, appearance on Larry King Live, Bob Woodward commented: "They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that [former ambassador] Joe Wilson's wife [Plame] was outed. Rove also reiterated that he first learned of Plame from another reporter, though would not disclose which reporter. I didn't put any big import on it and I just answered and it was the last question we had." [181] When asked why no internal investigation was conducted or disciplinary actions taken after he took office, Knodell replied "there was already an outside investigation that was taking place, a criminal investigation. [7], In the book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, as Corn observes (before its release on September 8, 2006), they[incomprehensible] consider the issue of "whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there", presenting "new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. Saying so over an open phone line itself would have been a security breach. '"[189] In an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times, Joe Wilson wrote "She immediately started jotting down a checklist of things she needed to do to limit the damage to people she knew and to projects she was working on. Libby was also alleged by prosecutors to have lied to the FBI and a federal grand jury in claiming that when he mentioned Plame's name to two reporters—Matthew Cooper, then of Time magazine, and Judith Miller, then of The New York Times—he was careful to point out to them he was simply repeating rumors that he had heard from Russert. Leak", "Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak", "The Real Story behind the Armitage Story", "Novak Memoir: Armitage Wanted Plame Named", "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER transcript for November 11, 2007", "Source Tells AP About Rove's Grand Jury Testimony on Plame Leak", The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir, "Lawyer Says Rove Talked to Reporter, Did Not Leak Name", "Obvious Question in Plame Case Had Early Answer", "Journalists Name Additional Leak Sources", "Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia IN RE: GRAND JURY SUBPOENA, JUDITH MILLER", "Rove Will Not Be Charged in CIA Leak Case, Lawyer Says", "Government's Response to Court's Inquiry regarding News Articles the Government Intends to Offer As Evidence At Trial (PDF)", "FBI Agent: Libby, Cheney May Have Discussed Plame", "Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Several years and many court dates later, we know that the message apparently didn't get through, but Novak never told Bill that he was going to ignore his advice to leave Valerie's name out of his article.[60]. ", As a result of her exposure as a CIA operative, Mrs. Wilson testified: "I could no longer perform the work for which I had been highly trained." The following is stated regarding Plame: Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's employment status was classified. In the motion, the DOJ states: Therefore, if law enforcement interviews of the President, Vice President or other senior White House officials become subject to routine public disclosure, even upon the conclusion of an investigation, there is an increased likelihood that such officials could feel reluctant to participate in voluntary interviews or, if they agree to such voluntary interviews, could decline to answer questions on certain topics. She testified that "I could count on one hand the number of people who knew where my true employer was the day that I was—my name was—and true affiliation was exposed in July 2003. Officer, Notes Show", "Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic", "Court Hears Libby Describe Cheney as 'Upset' at Critic", "First Witnesses May Bolster Libby Defense", "Libby Describes Forgetting, Relearning CIA Operative's Identity", "In Closing Pleas, Clashing Views on Libby's Role", "FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney", "Juror Explains Libby Verdict: They Felt He Was 'Fall Guy, "Libby Prosecutor Asks for No Leniency in Sentence", "Libby's Lawyers Argue Against Prison as Fitzgerald Seeks 30 Months", "Was Libby's Prison Sentence 'excessive'? ARMITAGE: Yeah. "[107][108], On May 25, 2007, in a court filing, Fitzgerald asked Judge Reggie B. Walton to sentence Libby to 30 to 37 months in jail, because Libby had "expressed no remorse, no acceptance of responsibility and no recognition that there is anything he should have done differently." On July 12, 2007, President Bush held a press conference and was asked about his commutation of Libby's prison sentence. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There are some major legal issues surrounding the allegations of illegality by administration officials in the CIA leak scandal, including Executive Order 12958, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the Espionage Act, Title 18 Section 641, conspiracy to impede or injure officers, the Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, other laws and precedents, perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and compelling the media to testify. Mrs. Plame, as she indicated, was covert.
July 14, 2005. "[64], On August 30, 2006, The New York Times reported that the lawyer and other associates of Armitage confirmed he was Novak's "initial and primary source" for Plame's identity. Where did she stay? Those are fighting words for any man, and I'd just had them quoted to me by MSNBC's Chris Matthews. Samantha has hosted as a News anchor since 1999 her current employer is Seven Network and is the author of the book Shine: Making the Most of Life without Losing Yourself. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald was also asked to testify. [42][43][44], In response to Plame's testimony, Republican Senators Kit Bond, Orrin Hatch, Richard Burr submitted additional views to the Senate report that stated "Mrs. Wilson told the CIA Inspector General that she suggested her husband for the trip, she told our committee staff that she could not remember whether she did or her boss did, and told the House Committee, emphatically, that she did not suggest him. "[42], In reply to the committee's request that she define the term "covert", she replied: "I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that the CIA is taking affirmative steps to ensure that there is no links between the operations officer and the Central Intelligence Agency. But Mr. Armitage kept his actions secret, not even telling President Bush because the prosecutor asked him not to divulge it, the people said ... Mr. Armitage had prepared a resignation letter, his associates said.
Paul Courson, Brianna Keilar, and Brian Todd, U.S. v. Libby Indictment: "Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's affiliation with the CIA was not common knowledge outside the intelligence community.". Further, it is not clear that engaging in temporary duty travel overseas would make a CIA employee who is based in Washington eligible for protection under the IIPA. In March 2008, the Government Accountability Office (GAO) revealed that the investigation had cost $2.58 million. A statement released by Wells read "We remain firmly convinced of Mr. Libby's innocence. [134] Cheney had considerable disdain for the CIA, as he spoke of the incompetence of the organization, and three times said "amateur hour" in reference to CIA actions. And turned out it was quite minimal damage. It was July 21, 2003, barely a week since a column by Robert Novak in The Washington Post had named my wife, Valerie, as a CIA officer, and now the host of Hardball was calling to tell me that as far as the White House was concerned, they had declared open season on my family. I'm aware of the fact that perhaps somebody in the administration did disclose the name of that person, and I've often thought about what would have happened had that person come forth and said, I did it. But it remained unclear whether the change, which was not contested by the prosecutors, would matter in jury deliberations," and some speculated that Libby's conversation with Miller would be dropped from count 1 of the indictment. [7], In his January 28, 2003, State of the Union Address, US President George W. Bush said "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. He is fluent in French, and, during his diplomatic career prior to the trip, he had served as a U.S. State Department general services officer in Niger, as an ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, as Deputy Chief of Mission (DCM) in both Brazzaville and Iraq (taking over as Chief of Mission during the 1990–91 Gulf War), in other diplomatic postings, and in subsequent national security and military advisory roles concerning U.S.-African affairs under Presidents George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton. and I said, 'I think his wife works out there. [99], According to press accounts, Cheney told investigators that he had learned of Mrs. Wilson's employment by the CIA and her potential role in her husband being sent to Niger from then-CIA director George Tenet, though it's unclear whether Cheney was made aware of her classified status. So that's why we took no action. Luskin then revealed to Fitzgerald that it was he who instructed Rove to have his aides find any records of that contact. That's a phrase of a journalist. [204] On October 26, 2005, her former CIA colleague Larry Johnson told Wolf Blitzer, on the CNN program The Situation Room, that she "had received death threats overseas from Al-Qaeda"; according to Johnson, after the FBI contacted her and told her of the threat made by al-Qaeda, she called the CIA and asked for security protection but was told: "you will have to rely upon 9-1-1. ", were Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions." According to Rizzo, after the CIA assessment of Novak's column, "the Plame leak appeared to be a most unlikely candidate for a full blown Justice/FBI investigation." The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him.
Now I'm much less ambivalent. I didn't try to out anybody.
That frees me to reveal my role in the federal inquiry that, at the request of Fitzgerald, I have kept secret." Mr. Fitzgerald has affirmed that he has made no decision concerning charges. Libby told the grand jury "it seemed to me as if I was learning it for the first time" when, according to his account, Russert told him about Plame on July 10 or 11, 2003.
I believe he meant that was the kind of inside information that my late partner, Rowland Evans, and I had featured in our column for so long. Libby told investigators he believed at the time that the information about Plame had come from Russert. [46], In a review of Plame's memoir, Fair Game, Alan Cooperman wrote for The Washington Post that "by her own account, Valerie Wilson neither came up with the idea [of sending Joe Wilson to Niger] nor approved it. Sends the Wrong Message to the World", "Was Berlusconi Behind the Pre-Iraq War Yellow Cake Story?" [3][26], The Wilsons also brought a civil lawsuit against Libby, Dick Cheney, Rove, and Armitage, in Wilson v. Her aim, she told colleagues, was to put in time as an administrator – to rise up a notch or two – and then return to secret operations.
Ms. Wilson worked on some of the most sensitive and highly secretive matters handled by the CIA. Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified as a prosecution witness that on July 7, 2003, Libby told Fleischer, "Ambassador Wilson was sent by his wife.
"[196], In a January 9, 2006, letter addressed to "Scooter" Libby's defense team, Patrick Fitzgerald responded to a discovery request by Libby's lawyers for both classified and unclassified documents. Aquí nos gustaría mostrarte una descripción, pero el sitio web que estás mirando no lo permite. The note Libby referred to contains no suggestion that either Cheney or Libby knew at the time of Ms. Wilson's undercover status or that her identity was classified, but they do show that Cheney did know and told Libby that Ms. Wilson was employed by the CIA and that she may have helped arrange her husband's trip. During court proceedings, when the jury was not present, Walton told the court: "I don't know, based on what has been presented to me in this case, what her status was. "[191], In contrast, in an October 27, 2005, appearance on Larry King Live, Bob Woodward commented: "They did a damage assessment within the CIA, looking at what this did that [former ambassador] Joe Wilson's wife [Plame] was outed. Rove also reiterated that he first learned of Plame from another reporter, though would not disclose which reporter. I didn't put any big import on it and I just answered and it was the last question we had." [181] When asked why no internal investigation was conducted or disciplinary actions taken after he took office, Knodell replied "there was already an outside investigation that was taking place, a criminal investigation. [7], In the book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, as Corn observes (before its release on September 8, 2006), they[incomprehensible] consider the issue of "whether Valerie Wilson had sent her husband to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Iraq had sought uranium there", presenting "new information undermining the charge that she arranged this trip. Saying so over an open phone line itself would have been a security breach. '"[189] In an op-ed published by the Los Angeles Times, Joe Wilson wrote "She immediately started jotting down a checklist of things she needed to do to limit the damage to people she knew and to projects she was working on. Libby was also alleged by prosecutors to have lied to the FBI and a federal grand jury in claiming that when he mentioned Plame's name to two reporters—Matthew Cooper, then of Time magazine, and Judith Miller, then of The New York Times—he was careful to point out to them he was simply repeating rumors that he had heard from Russert. Leak", "Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak", "The Real Story behind the Armitage Story", "Novak Memoir: Armitage Wanted Plame Named", "CNN LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER transcript for November 11, 2007", "Source Tells AP About Rove's Grand Jury Testimony on Plame Leak", The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir, "Lawyer Says Rove Talked to Reporter, Did Not Leak Name", "Obvious Question in Plame Case Had Early Answer", "Journalists Name Additional Leak Sources", "Appeals from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia IN RE: GRAND JURY SUBPOENA, JUDITH MILLER", "Rove Will Not Be Charged in CIA Leak Case, Lawyer Says", "Government's Response to Court's Inquiry regarding News Articles the Government Intends to Offer As Evidence At Trial (PDF)", "FBI Agent: Libby, Cheney May Have Discussed Plame", "Cheney Told Aide of C.I.A. Several years and many court dates later, we know that the message apparently didn't get through, but Novak never told Bill that he was going to ignore his advice to leave Valerie's name out of his article.[60]. ", As a result of her exposure as a CIA operative, Mrs. Wilson testified: "I could no longer perform the work for which I had been highly trained." The following is stated regarding Plame: Prior to July 14, 2003, Valerie Wilson's employment status was classified. In the motion, the DOJ states: Therefore, if law enforcement interviews of the President, Vice President or other senior White House officials become subject to routine public disclosure, even upon the conclusion of an investigation, there is an increased likelihood that such officials could feel reluctant to participate in voluntary interviews or, if they agree to such voluntary interviews, could decline to answer questions on certain topics. She testified that "I could count on one hand the number of people who knew where my true employer was the day that I was—my name was—and true affiliation was exposed in July 2003. Officer, Notes Show", "Bush Directed Cheney To Counter War Critic", "Court Hears Libby Describe Cheney as 'Upset' at Critic", "First Witnesses May Bolster Libby Defense", "Libby Describes Forgetting, Relearning CIA Operative's Identity", "In Closing Pleas, Clashing Views on Libby's Role", "FBI Agent Testifies Libby Learned About Plame from Cheney", "Juror Explains Libby Verdict: They Felt He Was 'Fall Guy, "Libby Prosecutor Asks for No Leniency in Sentence", "Libby's Lawyers Argue Against Prison as Fitzgerald Seeks 30 Months", "Was Libby's Prison Sentence 'excessive'? ARMITAGE: Yeah. "[107][108], On May 25, 2007, in a court filing, Fitzgerald asked Judge Reggie B. Walton to sentence Libby to 30 to 37 months in jail, because Libby had "expressed no remorse, no acceptance of responsibility and no recognition that there is anything he should have done differently." On July 12, 2007, President Bush held a press conference and was asked about his commutation of Libby's prison sentence. They didn't have to resettle anyone. There are some major legal issues surrounding the allegations of illegality by administration officials in the CIA leak scandal, including Executive Order 12958, the Intelligence Identities Protection Act, the Espionage Act, Title 18 Section 641, conspiracy to impede or injure officers, the Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, other laws and precedents, perjury, conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and compelling the media to testify. Mrs. Plame, as she indicated, was covert.
