Monday, August 21, 2006
Repercussions? Don't Hold Your Breath
November 22, 2005:
- No Conspiracy Evidence Seen in Leak Case, Journalist Says
Bob Woodward of The Washington Post said yesterday in a television interview that he had not seen any evidence that the Bush administration conspired to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador who had publicly criticized the administration's rationale for the war in Iraq.
"Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?" Mr. Woodward said, according to a transcript of his taped appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live." "I haven't yet seen evidence of that."
- Calendar Studied in CIA Leak Case
Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
When contacted at home Monday night, Woodward declined to discuss his meeting with Armitage or the identity of his source in the CIA leak case.
The calendar released to the AP is the first confirmation that Woodward and Armitage met during the key time in the CIA leak case that was the focus of Fitzgerald's probe.
The identity of Woodward's source remains one of the big mysteries in the case because the Post reporter is the first member of the news media known to have discussed Plame's CIA employment with an administration official.
Woodward has said Plame came up incidentally during an interview he was conducting for a book he wrote on the Iraq war. He said the source told him that Plame was a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction...
