Suburban Guerrilla

Feed on: Posts; Comments

Details

Oct 24th, 2005 at 3:06 pm by Susie

With the possibility of indictments just days away, sources close to the investigation into who outed covert CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson have provided RAW STORY a more detailed account into how and why Plame’s name was leaked and what role the Pentagon and the vice president’s office played.

Those close to the investigation say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been told that David Wurmser, then a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, met with Cheney and his chief of staff I. Lewis â€œScooterâ€? Libby in June 2003 and told him that Plame set up the Wilson trip. He asserted that it was a boondoggle because she was a CIA agent, the sources said.

Libby then shared the information with Karl Rove, President Bush’s deputy chief of staff, the sources said. Wurmser also passed on the same information about Wilson and his CIA to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, they added.

Within a week, Wurmser, on orders from “executives in the office of the vice president,” was told to leak her name to a specific group of reporters in an effort to muzzle her husband, Wilson, who had become a thorn in the side of the administration, those close to the inquiry say. It is unclear who Wurmser had spoken with in the media, the sources said, but they confirmed he did speak with reporters at national media outlets about Plame.

Posted in Uncategorized

3 Responses to “Details”

on 24 Oct 2005 at 4:34 pm1Eli Stephens

Since when does a trip to Niger qualify as a “boondoggle”?
on 24 Oct 2005 at 5:51 pm2No Blood for Hubris

B-b-boondoggle in Niger! Bwahahahahaha.

Morons.
on 24 Oct 2005 at 6:36 pm3Izquierdo

Wurmser — what a deliciously apt name in this case.

Trackback URI |

Bad Behavior has blocked 11691 access attempts in the last 7 days.

Details

3 Responses to “Details”

My Liberal Identity:

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories

Tags

Pages