Sunday, October 16, 2005

Hmmm...interesting

The latest from TIME:
    Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald appears to be seriously weighing a perjury charge for Rove's failure to tell grand jurors that he talked to TIME correspondent Matthew Cooper about Plame, according to a person close to Rove. Rove corrected himself in a later grand jury session. If charged with perjury, he will maintain he simply didn't recall the conversation with Cooper and told Fitzgerald as soon as he did.
    Those strategies are being shaped absent any real knowledge of what Fitzgerald might do before the grand jury's scheduled dissolution on Oct. 28. "If he played his cards any closer to the vest, they'd be in his underwear," says a lawyer who is a friend of the White House. But Fitzgerald's intentions aren't the only mystery. Another character in the drama remains unnamed: the original source for columnist Robert Novak, who wrote the first piece naming Plame. Fitzgerald, says a lawyer who's involved in the case, "knows who it is—and it's not someone at the White House."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Novak state specifically that he heard of Plame from "two senior administration officials?"

...Kevin Drum explains. TalkLeft points out that while Novak wrote that it was "two senior administration officials" who first told him about Plame, prior to the article's publication he called Wilson saying he'd heard from a source within the CIA that Wilson's wife worked there.

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