'NY Times' Wonders If Cheney Is Key Woodward Source

[Jon8503]

By E&P Staff Published: November 16, 2005 11:20 PM ET

NEW YORK In an article for Thursday's New York Times, reporter Todd Purdum, through the process of elimination, leaves Vice President Cheney still standing as a high ranking Bush administration official who has not denied being Bob Woodward's newly revealed key source in the Plame/CIA leak case.

Woodward provided sworn testimony to the federal grand jury on Monday, but said the source that mentioned Valerie Plame's CIA job to him in mid-June 2003 had still not authorized him to disclose his or her name. This "set off a frantic new round of guessing about who that source might be and a wave of public denials by spokesmen for possible suspects," Purdum observes. Then he ticks them off: "A senior administration official said that neither President Bush himself, nor his chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., nor his counselor, Dan Bartlett, was Mr. Woodward's source. So did spokesmen for former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, former C.I.A. Director George J. Tenet and his deputy John E. McLaughlin. "A lawyer for Karl Rove, the deputy White House chief of staff who has acknowledged conversations with reporters about the case and remains under investigation, said Mr. Rove was not Mr. Woodward's source.

"Vice President Cheney did not join the parade of denials. A spokeswoman said he would have no comment on an ongoing investigation. Several other officials could not be reached for comment."
Other "informed" speculation centers on Stephen Hadley.

Purdum pointed out that an enduring mystery of the case remains: WHO was Robert Novak's source for the Plame leak?

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001523755

[patricia92243]

1. Will Woodward be put in jail like Judy Miller was? - for not revealing

source?

[Jacobin]

3. The funny thing is he did reveal it to Fitzgerald, but won't

reveal it to the public, because his source only let him tell Fitzgerald.

Kinda weird, IMHO

[Clark2008]

2. While the rest of us wonder if the NY Times will ever get

out of bed with the neo-cons.

They've lost so much credibility in the world.