Sunday, July 17, 2005
Too many known unknowns: - Who took the notes at the 2002 CIA meeting where it was decided to send Wilson to Niger?
- Why are those notes disputed, in part, by the CIA? (A person listed as being at the meeting, wasn't)
- Who wrote the June 2003 memo, based on those notes, at State? (Appears to be an INR analyst, but we'd like to know more.)
- Who ordered the memo to be written?
- Who transmitted that memo to the White House?
- What was the role played by neocon and Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs, Marc Grossman?
- Who received the memo at the White House?
- Was Colin Powell really brandishing the memo on Air Force One?
- What does Powell have to say about all this?
- Where does Jeff Gannon (Jim Guckert) fit in?
- Was he leaked the memo or merely repeating a WSJ report?
- Was the NSC involved in any way?
- Why was Rove e-mailing Stephen Hadley about his chat with Cooper?
- Who forged the first set of Niger documents? (The good forgeries.)
- Who forged the second set of Niger documents?
- How did the Italian tabloid get a hold of the forgeries?
- How does the Italian secret service figure into this?
- What reporters were told about Plame/Wilson, and when, by Rove and Libby?
- Were Rove and Libby working in concert, and if so, why? Is their a higher authority they were working for?
- Why did Rove/Libby go so far in trashing Wilson (by bringing in Plame)? Were they worried about a grander unraveling of the "fixing" of the evidence for WMD?
- What role has Judith Miller have in this affair?
- What was she doing on July 8 with an "unnamed government official?
- Who was that official?
- What are the consequences of blowing Plame's cover? Is is a serious weakening of the WMD containment effort?
- What's the CIA's view on this matter? (By veterans, not current political appointees.)
- Who is the "senior administration official" who talked to the press (on background) and seemed to be not a part of the Plame shenanigans? Was it Andy Card?
- Is Card being pushed out in favor of a Rove protege? Is this circle-the-wagons time?
- What role does Cheney play in this?
- What did Bush know and when?
- What information was lost(or more likely, deliberately destroyed):
- In the weeks between the CIA initial request to the DOJ and the start of the Plame inquiry?
- In the 12 hours before "officially" ordering the WH to secure all records?
We'd love to make a diagram or timeline, but there are too many questions we don't have the answer to (especially the dates when leaks were made).
posted by Quiddity at 7/17/2005 09:59:00 PM
3 comments
um, #5, the memo. That was me. Sorry, you guys.
Remember, the core of the diagram is simple.
[Undercover agent]---outed by--->[Rove]&[Libby]--->[Journalists]
In a way, it's good that there are so many questions. It means that Fitzgerald is working and not leaking. No leaks for a long time then *blam* Miller goes to jail and Rove is revealed as a risk to our national security.
As for your question #24:
"What are the consequences of blowing Plame's cover? Is is a serious weakening of the WMD containment effort?"
Larry Johnson, ex-CIA agent, (now guest blogging at Josh Marshall's cafe, was on an NPR late last week (I believe the show was "To The Point," and I believe on Thursday or Friday).
If I caught him correctly, he said that the CIA would have to do an assessment of the damage done by this leak. This assessment would (I think) have to go to a relevant committee or subcommittee on Capital Hill. He said that he was pretty sure there was at least some damage done, as a the "no harm done" assessment would have been leaked by now to show that Rove really didn't do any damage.
He knows how these guys work. He's also a registered republican and ver pissed about what the Bushies have done and are continuing to do.
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