Seemed like he was more than guessing. He also said Novak has surely
testified who it was, and Fitzy's going after Cooper and Miller to
corroborate it.
Tivo transcript
Below is the text of Lawrence O'Donell's revelatory statement on
McLaughlin Group today. He began talking about Time having to pay for
holding the documents/emails, and not serving its shareholders by
defying a (Supreme) court order. He ended with this:
"What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's
emails-within Time Magazine, uh, are handed over to the grand jury is
the ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is.
And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this
but the source of-for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be
revealed in this document dump that Time Magazine's going to do with
the grand jury."
After O'Donnell said that about Rove, then McLaughlin and I think
also Buchanan (sp?) and Blankley ALL talked about Rove's connection to
this case for several minutes. They all seemed completely accepting
that Rove is the WH source, and their take on it is that there is
perjury as the jackpot.
And O'Donnell was STELLAR!!
And the delicious dessert to end this gourmet-fest ...would be that the originator of the leak, the one who told Rove in
the first place... was John Bolton... and he got the info from looking
at those cables they won't release to the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee.
He provides plenty of carefully crafted information -- for example see p. 443-445.
Wilson
indicates that the work up on him beginning March, 2003, turned up the
information on Valerie -- which was then shared with Karl Rove who then
circulated it through Administration and neo-Conservative circles. He
cites conservative journalists who claimed to have had the information
before the Novak column.
So the question is -- in the work-up process beginning about March 2003, who had the information re: Plame?
I
think it was John Bolton. At the time he was State Department Deputy
Secretary with the portfolio in WMD and Nuclear Proliferation. Assuming
that Valerie Plame's identity was that of a NOC (No Official Cover) the
information about her would have been highly classified,
compartmentalized, and only those with a need to know would know.
Bolton's Job probably gave him that status. However to receive it he
would have to sign off on the classification -- that is he would have
to agree to retain the security the CIA had established.
At
the time, Bolton had two assistants who also worked in the White House
in Cheney's office, David Wurmser and John Hannah. Their names have
been around as the potential leakers -- Hannah if you remember is the
guy who kept putting the Yellow Cake back in Bush's speeches even
though Tenet had demanded it be removed.
So -- I think we have
a game of catch going on here -- or maybe some version of baseball, and
the scoring is Bolton to Wurmser and Hannah, to Cheney (and/or Libby)
to Rove.
I suspect getting Rove on Perjury is more or less step one in walking back the path of the ball.
By
the way, reading about some of the prosecutions of al-Qaeda, I just
read the cross examination Fitzgerald did on witnesses in the E.
African Bombing prosecution in Southern District of NY. Smart Court
Room Lawyer in my mind.
GO, BROOKE SHIELDS! In the New York Times, no less.
By BROOKE SHIELDS
Published: July 1, 2005
London
I
WAS hoping it wouldn't come to this, but after Tom Cruise's interview
with Matt Lauer on the NBC show "Today" last week, I feel compelled to
speak not just for myself but also for the hundreds of thousands of
women who have suffered from postpartum depression. While Mr. Cruise
says that Mr. Lauer and I do not "understand the history of
psychiatry," I'm going to take a wild guess and say that Mr. Cruise has
never suffered from postpartum depression.
