Anybody recall Condoliar saying that the leak was from low-level officials

[linazelle]

I do. About two years ago. I tried googling it and the only link was to the WaPo. I followed the link, and the story is missing. :tinfoilhat:

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

1. Haha. Yea, just like the torture policies etc etc were all

the fault of low level officials or the troops on the ground ONLY period!

Personal accountability, thy name is not in the WH these days.

[Skip Intro]

2. something about, "well, it may have been known in the bowels of the...

beurocracy...

something like that?

I think it was on MTP...

[Spinzonner]

3. I think Rove qualifies as a bowel of the administration

when you consider what comes forth from him.

He isn't Turdblossom for nothing

[Roland99]

4. Do you have an article link or URL for it?

I may have it someplace.

Also, have you searched the archives up here?

[madeline_con]

5. No, but I found that she was involvee up to her elbows...

Published on Thursday, July 28, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
The Source Beyond Rove- Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
by Roger Morris

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0728-25.htm

[linazelle]

11. I would LOVE to see her indicted. Maybe she's "Official A." nt

[Roland99]

12. Rove is "Official A".

[Fridays Child]

6. What's the link? It may be retrievable through the Wayback Machine.

Wayback Machine

[linazelle]

10. I tried it again after you asked and it works now....here it is

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A13696-2003Oct11?language=printer

And it does mention the leak coming from the "bowels"...

Veddy interesting.

[Roland99]

13. I think you're reading it wrong. It's not the leak coming from the bowels.

Rice on Meet The Press
(Videotape, June 8, 2003):
DR. RICE: The president quoted a British paper. We did not know at the time, no one knew at the time in our circles—maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew—that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course, it was information that was mistaken.

[Cha]

7. condaLIAR knows she can

Lie and Lie and Lie and the m$m will cover for her..how relaxing for her that must be.

[Roland99]

8. Here's something. Rice saying NO ONE KNEW DOCS WERE FORGERIES

Sept. 28, 2003

http://www.msnbc.com/news/973028.asp?cp1=1

(Videotape, June 8, 2003):
DR. RICE: The president quoted a British paper. We did not know at the time, no one knew at the time in our circles—maybe someone knew down in the bowels of the agency, but no one in our circles knew—that there were doubts and suspicions that this might be a forgery. Of course, it was information that was mistaken.
(End videotape)
MR. RUSSERT: “No one in our circles.” That has proven to be wrong.
DR. RICE: No, Tim, that has not proven to be wrong. No one did know that they were forgeries. The notion of the forgeries came in February or in March when this was—when this came to the CIA. It is true that we learned, subsequent to my comments to you, that Director Tenet did not want to stand by that statement. And I would never want to see anything in a presidential statement—speech—that the director of Central Intelligence did not want to have there.
And I’m the national security adviser. When something like this happens, I feel personally responsible for it happening because it obscured the fact that the president of the United States did not go to war over whether Saddam Hussein tried to acquire yellow cake in Africa. He went to war over a threat from a bloody tyrant in the most volatile region of the world who had used weapons of mass destruction before, and was continuing to try to acquire them. And so, of course, this should not have happened.


(more at the link)

So, if Hadley was the one working with the Italians, wouldn't that make Rice a....um....LIAR?!?



Earlier, on July 13, 2003
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0307/13/le.00.html

RICE: Wolf, let me just start by saying, it is 16 words, and it has become an enormously overblown issue.

<...>

RICE: Well, first of all, I didn't know Joe Wilson was going to Niger. And if you look at Director Tenet's statement, it says that counterproliferation experts on their own initiative sent Joe Wilson, so I don't know...

<...>

BLITZER: Supposedly, it came at the request of the vice president.

RICE: No, this is simply not true, and this is something that's been perpetuated that we simply have to straighten out.

The vice president did not ask that Joe Wilson go to Niger. The vice president did not know. I don't think he knew who Joe Wilson was, and he certainly didn't know that he was going.

The first that I heard of Joe Wilson mission was when I was doing a Sunday talk show and heard about it.

[joemurphy]

9. Hard to believe that the head of the NSC didn't know what

the Deputy Head of NSC knew. She's either lying or incompetent. Personally, I think she's lying.