President Bush said that if anyone on his staff committed a crime in the CIA-leak case, that person will "no longer work in my administration." At the same time, Bush yet again side stepped a question on the role of his top political adviser, Karl Rove, in the matter.
"We have a serious ongoing investigation here and it's being played out in the press," Bush said at the July, 2005 East Room news conference.
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Bush failed to mention That he had "Declassified" Plame
President Bush signed an executive order in 2003 authorizing Cheney to declassify certain intelligence documents. The order was signed on March 23, four days after the start of the Iraq War and two weeks after Wilson first appeared on the administration's radar.
Instead
giving the impression That he didn't know "anything about it ,
September 2003, Former White House spokesman Scott McClellan promised : Any staffer proven to have leaked CIA officer Valerie Plame's identity "would no longer be in this administration,"
(Can a President Let "Himself go ? )
(((Resume)))
The Following Top officials leaked
"On" CIA officer Valerie Plame
whose job as a covert agent was classified
as an official government secret.
Vice President Cheney
Cheney's notes, (See Photo Above ) which were introduced into evidence during Libby's perjury and obstruction-of-justice trial, call into question the truthfulness of President Bush's vehement denials about his prior knowledge of the attacks against Wilson. The revelation that Bush may have known all along that there was an effort by members of his office to discredit the former ambassador begs the question: Was the president also aware that senior members of his administration compromised Valerie Plame's undercover role with the CIA?
When Libby reminded his boss the vice president that he learned about Plame from him, Cheney tilted his head quizzically and said, "From me?"
David Addington former counsel to the vice president, was named Cheney's chief of staff - a position Libby had held before resigning.
* Addington revealed during his testimony that in June 2003 there were internal discussions - involving President Bush and Vice President Cheney - about declassifying for specific reporters a portion of the highly classified October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate as a way to counter Wilson's criticisms against the administration.
Karl Rove
Bush's top political mastermind
told reporters Robert Novak and Matt Cooper about Plame.
Ari Fleischer
Bush's former spokesman got immunity before admitting he told reporters John Dickerson and David Gregory about Plame. Reporter Walter Pincus said Fleischer told him about her, too.
(sought immunity from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald because he was worried he might have committed treason, and was in jeopardy of the death penalty : ... )
Cathie Martin
Deputy Communications Secretary for the Bush White House and worked for Vice President Cheney during the period in question .
Her testimony makes it clear that by July 7, 2003–a week before the publication of Bob Novak’s article made “Valerie Plame” a household name–the Office of the Vice President was obsessed with press accounts of an ambassador’s trip to Niger and that the vice president and Libby were intimately and repeatedly involved in trying to manage the spin on the story.
Richard Armitage
The former deputy secretary of state "
told reporterRobert Novak about Plame.
Dan Bartlett : Presidential counselor discused Plame
Robert Grenier
The top CIA official overseeing Iraq operations got nervous over Libby's
pestering and later "felt guilty" about telling
Bill Harlow
The CIA spokesman told Cheney, Martin.
Marc Grossman
The No. 3 at the State Department:
Libby was pressing Grossman for official information on Wilson and receiving information on Wilson and his wife (which was classified),
Craig Schmall
Cheney's CIA daily briefer Schmall briefed Libby and Cheney about Mrs. Wilson,
Contains Eliments Of:
All these President's men
leaked CIA agent's name
BY JAMES GORDON MEEK
NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU
Originally published on February 20, 2007
Cheney's Handwritten Notes Implicate Bush in Plame Affair
By Jason Leopold and Marc Ash
A t r u t h o u t Report Wednesday 31 January 2007
t r u t h o u t .Org Executive Director Marc Ash and Jason Leopold , Jason Leopold is a former Los Angeles bureau chief for Dow Jones Newswire. He has written over 2,000 stories on the California energy crisis and received the Dow Jones Journalist of the Year Award in 2001
