July 18, 2005
PlameGate Final Wrap-Up
I'll do one more roundup on this, and then you're all on your own until the grand jury hands out indictments.
- Laura Rozen of War and Piece engages in a little Kremlinology over the never-declassified State Department memo (Source Zero for the information that Valerie Plame was involved in any of this) and its role in this whole sordid affair. [1, 2, 3, 4]
- That classified memo was leaked to several conservative news outlets during the campaign to discredit Joe Wilson.
- From Matt Cooper's new Time article on his grand jury testimony, "A surprising line of questioning had to do with, of all things, welfare reform. The prosecutor asked if I had ever called Mr. Rove about the topic of welfare reform. Just the day before my grand jury testimony Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, had told journalists that when I telephoned Rove that July, it was about welfare reform and that I suddenly switched topics to the Wilson matter. After my grand jury appearance, I did go back and review my e-mails from that week, [...] But I can't find any record of talking about it with him on July 11, and I don't recall doing so." (subscription only, quote courtesy Daily Kos) So Rove's story (and possibly his grand jury testimony) has another hole in it.
- Via Laura Rozen and Josh Marshall, the Washington Post has the whole PlameGate fiasco in narrative summary.
- And via my front doorstep, Frank Rich has a great OpEd that focuses on the whole point of the matter. A bravura performance.
Posted by ben at July 18, 2005 07:48 AM