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Scoop Links: NYT – Leaker-In-Chief In Spotlight

With One Filing, Prosecutor Puts Bush in Spotlight


By David E. Sanger and David Johnston
The New York Times
Tuesday 11 March 2006

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Washington - From the early days of the C.I.A. leak investigation in 2003, the Bush White House has insisted there was no effort to discredit Joseph C. Wilson IV, the man who emerged as the most damaging critic of the administration's case that Saddam Hussein was seeking to build nuclear weapons.

But now White House officials, and specifically President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, have been pitched back into the center of the nearly three-year controversy, this time because of a prosecutor's court filing in the case that asserts there was "a strong desire by many, including multiple people in the White House," to undermine Mr. Wilson.

The new assertions by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, have put administration officials on the spot in a way they have not been for months, as attention in the leak case seems to be shifting away from the White House to the pretrial procedural skirmishing in the perjury and obstruction charges against Mr. Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby Jr.

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Mr. Fitzgerald's filing talks not of an effort to level with Americans but of "a plan to discredit, punish or seek revenge against Mr. Wilson." It concludes, "It is hard to conceive of what evidence there could be that would disprove the existence of White House efforts to 'punish Wilson.' "

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Jim Lobe | Mind Games Over Iran


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041106A.shtml

Three years after the fall of Baghdad to US forces, Washington is abuzz
about new reports that the administration of President George W. Bush is
preparing to attack Iran, possibly with nuclear weapons.

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Larry Johnson | An Updated Plamegate Timeline


http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041106B.shtml

"Once you review this material there should be no doubt that President Bush is a bald-faced liar and used his office to attack Joe Wilson for trying to ensure the American people were told the truth about Iraq and its alleged efforts to buy uranium in West Africa."

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