Holy Toledo: Bob Woodward in the CIA Leak Case 
Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.
Woodward's Statement is here (pdf file).
Further, in the main Post article:
Woodward did not share the information with Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. until last month, and the only Post reporter whom Woodward said he remembers telling in the summer of 2003 does not recall the conversation taking place.
Atrios already has Woodward's comments of just several weeks back in which he oh so innocently carries water for the Busheviki discusses the possible upcoming indictments.
As Josh says, this all needs to be digested, particularly its ramifications for the case: clearly the publication of those details that "the official" allowed Woodward and WaPo to publish is meant entirely to put the whole affair within the official administration spin that it was all just "gossip" and "chatter," and that, as Woodward wants to claim, the "official" explicitly did not think that Plame was undercover. To which we all, of course, can give a loud and simultaneous HA! -- or at least a chin stroking hmmm, how convenient ...
Especially in light of this:
William Jeffress Jr., one of Libby's lawyers, said yesterday that Woodward's testimony undermines Fitzgerald's public claims about his client and raises questions about what else the prosecutor may not know.
[We should note that the WaPo article adds
Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Rove, said that Rove is not the unnamed official who told Woodward about Plame and that he did not discuss Plame with Woodward.]
SO what does this all mean? A lot of brand new unanswered questions certainly now appear on the horizon.
As to Booby Woodward, well, ya gotta shake your head sadly and sigh, "How the mighty have fallen ..."
-- Stu
KEYWORDS: Bob Woodward, CIA Leak Case, Washington Post, Patrick Fitzgerald, Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby
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