Post Source Reveals Identity to Leak Probers

[quaoar]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A24536-2004Sep15.html

A Washington Post reporter's confidential source has revealed his or her identity to the special prosecutor conducting the CIA leak inquiry, a development that provides investigators with a fact they have been pursuing in the nearly year-long probe.

Post reporter Walter Pincus, who had been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury in the case, instead gave a deposition yesterday in which he recounted his conversation with the source, whom he has previously identified as an "administration official." Pincus said he did not name the source and agreed to be questioned only with the source's approval.

"I understand that my source has already spoken to the special prosecutor about our conversation on July 12 <2003>, and that the special prosecutor has dropped his demand that I reveal my source. Even so, I will not testify about his or her identity," Pincus said in a prepared statement.

"The source has not discharged us from the confidentiality pledge," said The Post's executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr.

[quaoar]

1. Kick

[jdj]

2. I'll be damned.

Can't wait to find out who it is.

[secdiego]

11. I'd love to see the bastard burned.

Problem is, he probably didn't know that Plame had been an undercover agent. He probably thought she'd always been a Langley admin, and only knew that she'd put her hubby up for the Niger investigation job.
Too bad.
I wanna see someone frog-marched out of the White House.

[TacticalPeek]

18. Loose lips sink sunny scenarios.

:evilgrin:

[UpInArms]

3. my money's on Libby

but I could be wrong.

[Roy]

4. My money is on this source being a fake, smoke screen

"Even so, I will not testify about his or her identity," Pincus said in a prepared statement.

"The source has not discharged us from the confidentiality pledge," said The Post's executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr."

[jdj]

5. Okay.

I'll hold my bet for now.

That's why I love DU

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

12. You mean someone taking the fall for the big cheese?

[yardwork]

6. kick

[seemslikeadream]

7. Well things are moving again

n/t

[Nordic]

8. Whoa! This could be a big story!

Once Ivan settles down!

[truthisfreedom]

9. all the news about this subject is manufactured by the administration.

they create the "news". i'm sick of it.

[quaoar]

10. Nah

I think this guy decided to try to cut a deal before they smoked him out.

[Xenus Sister]

13. Wait, what?

> Pincus said he did not name the source and agreed to be questioned only with the source's approval.

La de da, aren't we special? Imagine if everybody said to a Grand Jury "I'll answer your questions, if I get permission from someone else. If they don't want me to talk, fuck off."

[Tight_rope]

16. Great analogy Equipoise.....Welcome to DU!

[Tight_rope]

14. Well spill my sippy cup!

Fitzgerald is kicking some ass in D.C. You go boy!

[goodboy]

15. kick....(if this has legs, Tom Ridge will be coming around shortly)

[molly]

17. Good timing!

[seemslikeadream]

19. REPORTER'S 2ND SUBPOENA IN C.I.A. CASE

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Published: September 16, 2004


REPORTER'S 2ND SUBPOENA IN C.I.A. CASE A Time magazine reporter, Matthew Cooper, was subpoenaed Tuesday for a second time in an inquiry into the disclosure of the identity of Valerie Plame, a covert C.I.A. officer. After Mr. Cooper was ordered jailed last month for failing to name his sources, he gave testimony limited to his contacts with I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and the court withdrew its order. Time said Mr. Cooper testified with Mr. Libby's consent. The new subpoena apparently concerns information from other officials. Yesterday a Washington Post reporter, Walter Pincus, also testified. Mr. Pincus said he would not identify an official who discussed Ms. Plame's identity with him in July 2003, but agreed to recount the substance of his conversation with the official.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/16/national/16brfs.html

[Streetdoc270]

20. Hurricanes=good news for Bush

The continued coverege of the Hurricanes keeps this and the mounting death toll in Iraq out of the minds of the American voters. We need to keep these issues in the front of the papers...