Reply #72: Excellent post....thanks! and a question... [View All]

In your Quote #2 from Joe Wilson's book:

{3} "Apparently, according to two journalist sources of mine, when Rove learned that he might have violated the law, he turned on Cheney and Libby and made it clear that he held them responsible for the problem they had created for the administration." (page 444)

I forget all the timeline, but do you remember when Cheney supposedly got his "declassification" powers. I know there has been some dispute over how far his powers go with that, but reading that quote from Wilson's book made me wonder if Cheney's declassification of Plame's identity got Rove off on that "technicality." Is it possible that Cheney claims he had his power given by Bush to declassify her name before he or Libby gave the info to Rove and that Fitzgerald had to thoroughly check that out before letting Rove off the hook?

For some reason the Wilson quote jumped out at me. :shrug: