New! Pincus, Cooper Targeted Again in Plame Probe: Libby off the hook!

[KoKo]

Pincus, Cooper Targeted Again in Plame Probe


By E&P Staff

Published: September 16, 2004 10:00 AM EDT
NEW YORK Two surprising developments involving journalists and Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald surfaced late yesterday.

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Also yesterday, Fitzgerald sent new subpoenas for documents and testimony to Time magazine and its reporter Matthew Cooper.

Cooper, threatened with jail for contempt of court, agreed to questioning three weeks ago about conversations he had with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, a senior aide to Vice President Cheney.

"Pincus answered questions about Libby as well," the Washington Post reported this morning. "Both he and Cooper said they did so with Libby's approval."

Both said that their conversations with Libby did not touch on the identity of outed CIA officer Plame. "Fitzgerald had focused on Libby as the possible leaker of Plame's name and identity, but the new subpoenas to Time suggest he may be rethinking that theory," the Post observed. "Four reporters have now testified at Libby's urging that he did not disclose Plame's name or identity to them."

Time's outside counsel, Floyd Abrams, said the magazine will again seek to quash the subpoenas.






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[Spiffarino]

1. I'm sorry but...

...a guy who keeps calling himself "Scooter" after the 6th grade desperately needs to be sent up the river.

Apologies to all DU Scooters...

[Catfight]

2. It's Rove, Rove is the outer, Wilson had that pegged from day one. nt

[H2O Man]

3. Libby isn't "cleared"

The person who made the phone calls to some of the reporters is John Hannah. This has been known (and reported on the Plame threads) for some time. Wilson had identified him and David Wurmser as two of the suspects in his book. And Chris Matthews has confirmed that Rove called him to say that "Wilson's wife is fair game," after Novak's article. Wurmser worked for Bolton, who headed the VP's private intel "agency."

Libby is not in the clear. He was among the planning group. The investigation isn't going to simply stop at the two guys that made the calls. They would not have made them without direction. Hannah has been turned and providing Fitzgerald with information for some time.

What is fascinating is to note the same names here make up the neocon spy ring, that was passing information to the Israeli front. And Franklin has been providing information to the FBI. The two cases are very closely related.

Guess who forged the Niger yellow cake uranium documents?