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Posted on Jan 29, 2007
Ari Fleischer
nytimes.com

Ari Fleischer (center) arriving at the court Monday.

Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified Monday that “Scooter” Libby revealed Valerie Plame’s CIA status three days before he claims to have learned the information. Fleischer also said Libby mentioned that the matter was “hush-hush.”


New York Times:

Mr. Fleischer, testifying in Mr. Libby’s trial under a grant of immunity, said Mr. Libby told him over lunch on July 7, 2003, that the wife of a critic of President Bush’s Iraq policy worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. That is three days before he told a grand jury that he first learned her name.

“This is hush-hush,” Mr. Fleischer recalled Mr. Libby as saying in effect. “This is on the Q.T. Not many people know about this.”

Mr. Fleischer said he had lunch with Mr. Libby in the White House mess that Monday, July 7, and that they had a general conversation (“We talked a little football”) before Mr. Libby brought up the subject of Valerie Wilson, a covert C.I.A. agent whose husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat, had criticized the president’s Iraq policy in an opinion essay in The New York Times.

The former Bush spokesman testified that Mr. Libby said, “She works at the C.I.A., she works in the counter-proliferation division.”

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By joey, January 30, 2007 at 10:26 am Link to this comment
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The Cheney Law
Today on Dick Cheney’s 66th birthday congress should propose The Cheney Law
Mandatory alzheimer’s testing on government officials , all government officials
If the last 6 years did not prove my case the next 2 years will.
Case closed.

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By Lefty, January 30, 2007 at 8:47 am Link to this comment
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Another republican, another lying, corporate/fascist, crook.  But then, if 75% of Americans can be made to believe that there is an invisible God in the sky who will save them and save America, they can be made to believe anything.

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By Steve Hammons, January 30, 2007 at 6:05 am Link to this comment
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Former New York Times reporter Judith Miller is set to take the stand today in the Libby trial.

It seems worthwhile to revisit the Judy Miller situation. She may have served as a propaganda mouthpiece for the neocon element in the Bush administration that planned the invasion of Iraq.

Before her role was fully recognized, and she was “retired” from the NYT, the Society of Professional Journalists gave Miller an award for resisting special prosecutor Fitzgerald’s first attempts to get her testimony.

The article below from that time frame looks at this situation from several angles:

Society of Professional Journalists’ Award to Judith Miller Helps Cover-Up?

Steve Hammons
American Chronicle
October 27, 2005

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3287

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By chris (USA), January 29, 2007 at 10:21 pm Link to this comment
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This will get draged out for the next period of months and by the time it all ends, it will be time for elections and Bush will pardon this scum in true sleaz fashion reminiscent of Watergate.

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By Jackie T. Gabel, January 29, 2007 at 9:14 pm Link to this comment
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It begins… Will Patrick Fitzgerald fulfill his Robespierre destiny? Is Libby the one to lead the Carmelite march? He’s not quite caught the martyr aura yet. It could go badly — could be a real mess…as undignified as Saddam’s demise — to be sure he’ll flip, and then the parade begins. TruthDig will need a full-time correspondant in DC feeding updates 24/7…better get on it.

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By toc, January 29, 2007 at 8:40 pm Link to this comment
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Ari sure has gotten fat.

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By DennisD, January 29, 2007 at 8:04 pm Link to this comment
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The Bushmen can’t even keep their lies in a uniform time line. Amateurs. I can’t wait for Dick to take the stand, he’ll show these losers what a real lier can do. He’s an old pro.
You corporate execs out nows the time to take notes for your future indictments and trials.

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By Quy Tran, January 29, 2007 at 7:17 pm Link to this comment
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Libby and his friends already have lots of bad news. Those who were involved in criminal and illegal administration never have had goods news for their country but their own benefits.

They are good match to devils.

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By Jim, January 29, 2007 at 5:46 pm Link to this comment
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Nothing will happen because there was no crime for Pete’s sake.  There are no criminal indictments because Plame was not covert and had not been for the requisite period of time.  Why would Libby lie if there was no crime?  On the other hand, Sandy “pants” Berger admittedly STEALS top secret documents and destroys them probably compromising the 911 commission study. For that he gets a slap on the wrist. Explain that one!  It’s sometimes difficult to figure out just which of our two wonderful political parties is the dumber.  No. I take that back, it’s the democrats by two lengths.

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By Margaret Currey, January 29, 2007 at 4:05 pm Link to this comment
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This Libby thing is going to be over and nothing is going to happen, the reason is probably the Bush administration declasisified the information and the person responsible this could have been “shotgun” Chaney,  nothing happens in Washington that is called a “leak” because sounds this “leak” was intentional.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

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