Memory Lane
Jul 28th, 2005 at 12:14 pm by Susie
You read it here first.
March 6, 2004 - Suburban Guerrilla:
I was looking through my referral log this afternoon, and I happened to spot this: Someone from the Department of Justice was Googling “john hannah” “judith miller” and got me.
Gee, I wonder if she’s one of the people who got a subpoena in the CIA leak investigation.
From Pen at Daily Kos:
Whoever Millers source is, the information first went past people very close to Bush. Who? [...]
Let’s take a moment to consider something: Where did The Usual Suspects get their information about Valerie Plame? Who in the administration would have had access to Top Secret information pertaining to Valerie Wilson/Plame’s role in nuclear proliferation? The only logical person to turn to for such information would have been John Bolton, State Dept. deputy secretary in charge of WMD’s. Bolton played a central role in the Niger Yellowcake story.
And who are two of Bolton’s assistants? David Wurmser and John Hannah, both of whom conveniently also worked in Dick Cheney’s office. And according to a Richard Sale article on Insight Mag saved here Federal investigators have solid evidence against John Hannah:
Federal law-enforcement officials said that they have developed hard evidence of possible criminal misconduct by two employees of Vice President Dick Cheney’s office related to the unlawful exposure of a CIA officer’s identity last year. The investigation, which is continuing, could lead to indictments, a Justice Department official said.
According to these sources, John Hannah and Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis “Scooter” Libby, were the two Cheney employees. “We believe that Hannah was the major player in this,” one federal law-enforcement officer said. Calls to the vice president’s office were not returned, nor did Hannah and Libby return calls.
The strategy of the FBI is to make clear to Hannah “that he faces a real possibility of doing jail time” as a way to pressure him to name superiors, one federal law-enforcement official said.
Go to Huffingtonpost today. Latest scuttlebut at the NYT is that Judith Miller was supremely ticked off by the Wilson oped - after all, in her own newspaper, someone dared to question the WMD story she reported on. She also had Bolton as a source (see thewashingtonnote). Huffington now hypothesizes that it was Judy who sought out any dirt on Wilson, and gave it to Libby. This all fits, especially about Bolton (or someone in his office) knowing of Plame’s identity.
I feel like I am living in an alternative universe. Can someone please explain why JM was not fired, but Dan Rather “resigned”? In the MSM, Miller is being hailed as a martyr, the “she’s in jail, but she never even wrote about it” theme is repeated as nauseum. Of course, the fact that she DID NOT report on it (she could say what she knows without revealing a source) is revealing of her complicity, not her innocence.
Does anyone in this regime name superiors?
Doubtful.
They will all fall on their swords, and then later be pardoned.
Kind of their version of virgins in paradise, eh?
[...] You read it here in March 2004. They were looking at John Hannah from the beginning: The special counsel appointed in late December 2003 to investigate the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson found out the identity of the Bush administration official who disclosed her undercover status to syndicated columnist Robert Novak just two months after the probe began. [...]