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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Sunday, October 30, 2005

Libby's replacement was involved in Plame, too?

One of the names thrown out as Libby's replacement is David Addington. According to the NYTimes, he was involved in the Plame outing as well.

The indictment identifies the other officials only by their titles, but it clearly asserts that others involved in the discussion included David Addington, Mr. Cheney's counsel; John Hannah, deputy national security adviser; and Catherine Martin, then Mr. Cheney's press secretary.

Mr. Addington and Mr. Hannah in particular were powerful forces within the administration, and like Mr. Cheney and Mr. Libby, they had often been at odds with the C.I.A. before the war in Iraq.

So much for the cleaning house/fresh start many were advising for the Bush admin.

Also, same article, names Marc Grossman as the "undersecretary of state" from the indictment. First major media naming of this individual.

By any measure, the indictment suggests that Mr. Libby and others went to unusual lengths to gather information about Mr. Wilson and his trip. An initial request on May 29, 2003, from Mr. Libby to Marc Grossman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, led Mr. Grossman to request a classified memorandum from Carl Ford, the director of the State Department's intelligence bureau, and later Mr. Grossman orally briefed Mr. Libby on its contents.

And the WaPo has a very long, but less administration-literal version of the whole WMD/Cheney/Wilson story. Kind of a fleshing out of the indictments version.

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