Traitorgate: Plame and Wilson hired Lawyer

posted by ewing2001 on Thursday October 02, @08:23PM

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Outed CIA Woman and Hubby mull suit

Update: 2 Disclaim Leaking Name of Operative (10/05)
Update: White House Staff Given Until Tuesday to Turn in CIA Leak Information (10/03)
Update: Suspicion centers on Lewis Libby (Salon 10/03)

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Wilsongate: CIA wants to investigate

NY Post -Friday October 3

October 3, 2003 -- WASHINGTON - The CIA officer whose cover was blown by an alleged Bush administration leak and her diplomat husband have retained a Washington lawyer to find out who they can sue and how much money they can seek.

Also, the investigation, first focused on the White House and CIA, is now broadening to include the State and Defense departments, officials said.

"There's no question that the Wilsons' legal rights have been violated," their lawyer, Christopher Wolf, told The Post. "More importantly, the country's legal rights have been violated, and that's first and foremost what they're interested in."

Wolf said he's representing former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was sent by the CIA earlier this year on a mission to find out if Iraq tried to buy enriched uranium in Niger, and his wife, CIA analyst Valerie Plame, whose name was leaked to columnist Robert Novak.

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Suspicion centers on Lewis Libby

Salon -October 3, 2003

Criminal leak investigations are notoriously futile, and the identity of the administration officials who illegally blew the cover of CIA operative Valerie Plame may never be known. But one name keeps coming up, and so far it hasn't provoked a specific, emphatic White House denial: Lewis "Scooter" Libby, assistant to the president and Vice President Dick Cheney's powerful chief of staff.

On Wednesday the New York Daily News reported that "Democratic congressional sources said they would like to hear from Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby." On MSNBC's "Buchanan and Press" on Wednesday, Pat Buchanan asked an administration critic who claims to know the leaker's name point blank if "Scooter Libby" was the culprit (the critic wouldn't answer).

And Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, made a veiled reference on CNBC this week, suggesting that President Bush could better manage the current crisis by, "sitting down with [his] vice president and asking what he knows about it."

But below the surface there's even more chatter. Says one former senior CIA officer who served under President Bush's father, "Libby is certainly suspect No. 1."

White House Staff Given Until Tuesday to Turn in CIA Leak Information