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Monday, July 11, 2005

Parsing the definition of "name"
Posted by Jill | 6:34 AM

I don't ever want to hear about Bill Clinton parsing the definition of "is" again.

It's pretty clear that Rove is going to try to weasel his way out of trouble by claiming that he never uttered the name "Valerie Plame". I guess no one else in all of Washington knew who "Joseph Wilson's wife" was, and if they didn't, I guess he revealed it by playing Charades.

This wouldn't fly if the president's name was "Clinton" and it shouldn't fly now.

Meanwhile, Blogenlust speculates that Rove's source may have been Judith Miller (in which case Miller is even less the poster child for the First Amendment than she is now):

parsing and obfuscation has been part of the plan all along. Remember, more than a year ago when Bush claimed that he wanted to "get to the bottom of this," he used very specific language:

"If there's a leak out of my administration, I want to know who it is," Bush told reporters at an impromptu news conference during a fund-raising stop in Chicago, Illinois. "If the person has violated law, that person will be taken care of.
[...]
He added that he did not know of "anybody in my administration who leaked classified information."


Now I'm of the opinion that Bush has known all along who leaked the information on Plame, or rather, who gave that information to Rove. Rove, for one, would never have let the President make the above statements if he knew it could be used against them in the information, epecially considering how Rove was very much involved in the leaking process. Bush's statements were carefully crafted, and they might suggest some clues as to who the original leak is.

One possibility may be what I suggested earlier: that Judy Miller gave the information to Rove, who shopped it to other reporters. Earlier I speculated that Miller got the information from someone in the State Department, and that still may be true, particularly if that person could be considered outside of "the administration." It also may be true that Miller's source came from someone outside the government, especially considering her notorious past of publishing-as-fact gossip from the shady Ahmed Chalabi.

So the more I think about it, the more I think that Judy Miller holds the key to this investigation. She's not going to prison to protect the same source Cooper was going to go to prison to protect (Rove). She's going to prison to protect the source that actually leaked Plame's cover, and my guess is that that person is someone that needs to be protected at all costs.

The question I want to know is whether a "special assistant" (David Wurmser) to the Undersecretary of State for Arms Control (John Bolton) would be considered part of "my administration"? What exactly does a "special assistant" do?


This is not the first speculation that Bolton has something to do with this, and may explain the Administration's refusal to turn over the requested documents on John Bolton to the Senate. I myself am not convinced that Ahmad Chalabi isn't Judith Miller's source.
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