Could someone explain when this story changed ?

[kentuck]

Three days ago everyone was talking about how Libby had said that George Bush was the "leaker" via Dick Cheney. But overnight, it changes to Rove and Fleischer were the "leakers" - it wasn't Bush and Cheney after all? Fitzgerald filed a "corrective"? What did he correct? And why?

[acmavm]

1. Rove and Fleischer? Interesting. n/t

[gristy]

2. Libby's filing?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x929558

[Atman]

3. When the blast fax went out

Is everybody on the same page now?

[janx]

7. Oh yeah!

I just commented on another thread that this PR war has only just begun. Here is one example of what we'll be seeing a lot more of:

http://www.nationalreview.com/york/york200604130852.asp

[HereSince1628]

4. Everyone wants to make a headline it leads to misinformation

Libby didn't _finger_ Rove and Fleischer. Rather his legal team _pointed a finger_ to mentions of them made in Libby's indictment in order to broaden their discovery.

[boobooday]

5. An issue of chronology

Libby's testimony called the chronology of events into question, I believe. Was it leaked before it was declassified? (And of course the 'duh' question strains all credulity anyway: if it was declassified, then there was no need to leak it.)

A tangled web of lies and deceit. They are all guilty, it appears, although I'm sure that doesn't surprise anyone here.

[kentuck]

8. But if the president leaked it, it is no longer "classified", right ?

Obfuscation and misdirection..

[boobooday]

10. Right, but if Libby or Fleischer leaked it first

Before the president said, "ready, set, treason!" then they leaked classified information before it was declassified.

Oh, and the president lied about the uranium thing because even though he knew the truth (that there was none) the information hadn't yet been declassified.

They always reserve the right to contradict themselves.

[janx]

6. Bush and Cheney selectively leaked parts of the National

Intelligence Estimate.

Some "journalists" interpreted that to mean that they leaked Plame's name. Libby's lawyers are leaking like crazy, fueling the confusion and speculation.

The short answer is that nobody knows and Fitzgerald isn't talking. Fitzgerald is concentrating on the Libby obstruction/lying charges.

[rodeodance]

9. one thing for sure--Fritz is leaving Cheney wide open so far

In his most recent court motion, CIA leak prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald wrote that "the President was unaware of the role that had in fact played in disclosing Ms. Wilson's CIA employment." But Fitzgerald made no such statement about Cheney, and the prosecutor's indictment of Libby hints that the vice president might have been behind the disclosure of Wilson's identity, saying that the process that led to the disclosure was set in motion in early June 2003, when "Libby learned from the Vice President that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA in the Counterproliferation Division."