October 31, 2005
The Italian Connection, Part 1. I know that most of you probably read this blog, but Talking Points Memo has a brief, but nice, account of one of the many ways we've been had over the last 70 months.
"That summer SISMI had approached the CIA about an operation they intended to run against the Station Chief of Iraqi intelligence in Rome. The plan was to send disinformation about the Iraqi Station Chief back to Baghdad via a third country. And the subject of the disinformation was to be trade between Iraq and Niger."
Now, if someone, maybe you, could please tell me why Robert Novak is not in trouble over the whole Plame-game?
I think Novak talked to Fitzgerald in exchange for avoiding prosecution, but I"m not sure.
I may be wrong, but I think I read that Novak mentioned to Fitzgerald that Rove was his "secondary" source, avoiding prosecution by giving some information (the same thing with MSNBC's Chris Cooper and NBC's Tim Russert). Time's Matthew Cooper and NYT's Judith Miller refused to identify their "primary" source (at the time, now known to be Libby).
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holy cow. what an account. i had no idea.
as for robert novak, i can't understand that either. aren't journalists subject to the same laws as the rest of us regarding derailing-secret-intelligence- in-foreign-countries-by-outing-NCOs? i am just too naive.
posted by reid at 12:14PM CST on October 31