So, who is spilling the beans on Cheney and Bush to Fitz?

[Quixote1818]

"In interviews over the course of two days this week, these officials were urged to speak on the record for this story. But they resisted, saying they had already testified before a grand jury investigating the leak of Wilson's wife, covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, and added that speaking out against the administration and specifically Vice President Cheney would cause them to lose their jobs and subject their families to vitriolic attacks by the White House.

The officials said they decided to speak out now because they have become disillusioned with the Bush administration's policies regarding Iraq and the flawed intelligence that led to the war."


Any guesses?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0602/S00110.htm

[benburch]

1. I dunno...

But I'd love to buy them dinner!

[saltpoint]

2. A darned good question. It surely does seem as if Fitz is getting

info from someone inside the WH.

I don't know who it is but maybe someone has decided to leak the tale in fragments so that a talented prosecutor and his team can reassemble them on the outside for the media and the public.

What if Stephen Hadley is the source of the leaks, which would hasten his former boss' ascent to the vice presidency (once Fitz nails Cheney), and he, Hadley, would become the U.S. Secretary of State. Maybe hapless Hadley and Kindasleazy are doing a little history-shaping on the side.

It may mean -- just wishful speculation here -- that Dubya's presidency faces an unpredictable and perhaps brief future.

Even some red voters have finally come to realize that George W. Bush is a little piss-ant, hardly worthy of their vote, much less the U.S. presidency.

[FreedomAngel82]

4. Oh that would be good

if it was Hadley.

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. Not Hadley

Hadley is 100% reptilian.

More likely Tenet and Ari Fleisher.

[Quixote1818]

5. Hadley is a good guess

It's got to be someone very high up because I doubt if too many people knew about this. I doubt if they even told Powell.

[FreedomAngel82]

12. Or what if

it was Libby himself? :shrug:

[Fandingo]

3. Any guesses?

"Any guesses?"

Someone who has become tiresome to the big media he or she leaks to "Truthout" to be published on a New Zealand web site.

[Oilwellian]

6. An insider on the Plame investigation is "tiresome?"

Surely you jest. :rofl:

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[yorkiemommie1]

7. 'vitriolic attacks by the White House'

and the GOP talking point is that the DEMS are the angry ones.

[CoffeeCat]

8. I don't know WHO, but can you imagine Pickles being interrogated...

...by Fitzgerald?

After seeing Pickles' facial expressions during the recent speeches that honored Coretta Scott King, I can see Pickles saying, "What cha going to do Mr. Fitzgerald, arrest me for smoking?"

[lies and propaganda]

15. god bless you

that just gave me an instant belly laugh

[davidinalameda]

19. I just ate

:puke:

[Garbo 2004]

9. Article states the officials worked for State Dept, CIA and NSC.

Unlikely IMO that Hadley, as someone suggested here, is one of the sources for the article since he's fingered in the article as knowing the Niger docs were bogus yet pushing the Niger story anyway.

One assumes there are a number of disaffected folks in the State Dept and intel/security agencies since Cheney and his gang ran over them to get what they wanted.

[FreedomAngel82]

14. And he flipped a while back didn't he?

[Emit]

10. robertpaulsen noted a few possible folks here

on this thread. Check out RP's post # 110, and then a few follow-up replies to his post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=370469&mesg_id=373075

[Quixote1818]

11. Thanks! nt

[Catrina]

13. Wurmser and Hannah? Weren't they the first to 'cooperate' with

Fitzgerald because he threatened them with jail? And then Cheney chose Hannah to replace Libby? That made no sense unless Cheney saw the Godfather and agrees that you should 'keep your friends close but your enemies closer'.

[applegrove]

16. People who want the focus to be off Rove. Cause he has a 30 year

empire to run. Cheney cat take the bullet. He is going to retire anyway. He was house-hunting in August.

IMHO

[Beetwasher]

17. I Think NUMEROUS People

Libby, Hannah, Wurmser, Hadley, Novak, Cooper, Miller etc. Fitz has triangulated quite well I think and verfied info from numerous sources.