He Said, She Said

Bloomberg is reporting that Scooter Libby told Pat Fitzgerald that Libby learned CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson's identity from Tim Russert. Russert has testified before Fitzgerald that he didn't tell Libby of Plame's identity.

Karl Rove told Fitz that Rove learned her identity from Bob Novak. Novak gave a somewhat different version to Fitz.

Rove told Fitz that Matt Cooper called Rove about welfare reform. Cooper told the Grand Jury that he never discussed welfare reform with Rove in that call.

This sounds like a bunch of "he said, she said".

First off, which names were mentioned....Valerie Plame, Valerie Wilson, or Wilson's wife? Secondly, Professor Plum, are any of these players deliberately lying or do they simply have fuzzy memories?

One thing they all agree on, "it wasn't me"!

To borrow Joe Wilson's literary license, I can hear Cooper now, "Welfare reform? Welfare reform? I didn't mention no stinkin' welfare reform".

Well Mrs. Peacock, some have concluded it was Ari Fleischer, in the plane, with the memo, on the phone.

You remember the memo. The one with the bracketed [S] inserted in the memo like a flashing siren solely to indicate Val's Super Secret Undercover CIA Agent Operative status. Nevermind that it was generally known by news media that Val was a CIA employee.

Oh, and just one more thing. It's carved in stone somewhere that reporters and journalists do not lie.

Read all about it in the WaPo and NYT. -- LynZee