http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/ News and Opinion on Politics and Media Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:12:35 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/comment-page-1/#comment-254852 » CIA Leak: Ari Fleisher Took the Fifth | Pensito Review Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:02:22 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/#comment-254852 [...] I have long suspected that Ari Fleischer was up to this eyeballs in the leak of CIA anti-proliferation agent Valerie Plame’s name to Bob Novak. Yesterday, during the lawyers’ opening statements in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby, Fleischer’s activities at the time were revealed — as was new information that Fleischer testified about his involvement under a grant of immunity from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald: Fleischer was a short-timer when Plame’s name was leaked to Novak. He was replaced by Scott McClellan on July 15, 2003, the day after Novak’s column was published. And as the two legal teams began their courtroom battle, new information was disclosed about the leak affair, including the revelation that Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary at the time of the leak, had identified Valerie Wilson as a CIA officer to NBC News reporter David Gregory a week before the leak appeared in Robert Novak’s July 14, 2003 column, and that Fleischer, during the subsequent criminal investigation, took the Fifth Amendment and demanded (and received) immunity before testifying to Fitzgerald’s’ grand jury. [...] [...] I have long suspected that Ari Fleischer was up to this eyeballs in the leak of CIA anti-proliferation agent Valerie Plame’s name to Bob Novak. Yesterday, during the lawyers’ opening statements in the perjury trial of Scooter Libby, Fleischer’s activities at the time were revealed — as was new information that Fleischer testified about his involvement under a grant of immunity from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald: Fleischer was a short-timer when Plame’s name was leaked to Novak. He was replaced by Scott McClellan on July 15, 2003, the day after Novak’s column was published. And as the two legal teams began their courtroom battle, new information was disclosed about the leak affair, including the revelation that Ari Fleischer, White House press secretary at the time of the leak, had identified Valerie Wilson as a CIA officer to NBC News reporter David Gregory a week before the leak appeared in Robert Novak’s July 14, 2003 column, and that Fleischer, during the subsequent criminal investigation, took the Fifth Amendment and demanded (and received) immunity before testifying to Fitzgerald’s’ grand jury. [...]

]]> http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/comment-page-1/#comment-1506 Pensito Review » Third White House Official Involved in Bush CIA Leak Scandal Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:46:23 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/#comment-1506 [...] cret CIA agent to various reporters in the July 2003. Here at Pensito Review, we have also expressed our suspicion that former Bush flying monkey Ari F [...] [...] cret CIA agent to various reporters in the July 2003. Here at Pensito Review, we have also expressed our suspicion that former Bush flying monkey Ari F [...]

]]> http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/comment-page-1/#comment-1216 Pensito Review » Flying Monkey-Gate: Cajones Goeth Before the Fall Sat, 23 Jul 2005 17:29:22 +0000 http://www.pensitoreview.com/2005/07/18/fleischer-was-seen-reading-memo-about-plame/#comment-1216 [...] jail by coming forward. I suspect they even know which one. (As noted, I think it’s Ari Fleischer.) Who knows - maybe the press will earn its k [...] [...] jail by coming forward. I suspect they even know which one. (As noted, I think it’s Ari Fleischer.) Who knows – maybe the press will earn its k [...]

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