Reply #36: ***3:21, 3:39

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t's 3:21.

(Fitz shows Libby a batch of documents, but I'm not clear what they are — went by too fast. One has the notation "Wilson.")

F: What prompted the delivery of the CIA memo, marked ASAP, on June 9th?

L: May have been the Pincus article . (Libby amusingly tries to explain that "ASAP" doesn't necessarily mean it was "a hair-on-fire thing.")

(More documents, including apparently a CIA cable about the Wilson trip. Somewhere in here, Fitz asks if Libby knew at this time that Wilson was the envoy sent to Niger; Libby says he didn't.)

(F. points out that one document, a version of the CIA cable, has "Joseph Wilson" written on it.)

F: Do you recognize the handwriting?

L: (with a little hedging) It looks like the Vice President's.

(F. pulls out a copy of the eight-page CIA memo. The second page has "Joseph Wilson" printed, and "Wilson" in script underneath.)

F: Do you recognize the handwriting?

L: Not the printing. The script is mine.

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It's 3:39.

F: When was the NIE officially declassified?

L: July 18th.

F: Did the President specifically authorize you to give this information with Judith Miller.

L:

The first reporter that I discussed the NIE with.

The first I discussed the text of the NIE with, yes.

F: And you showed her the text of the NIE

L: The relevant portions, yes

F: Of a full or redacted copy of the NIE?

L: Redacted.

F: Did you give her the redacted copy?

L: No, just a page with bullet points.

F: Did you share the document you gave with Judith Miller with the VP first?

L: No.

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