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Plame leak: Wurmser to Libby to Rove and Rice

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Monday, 24 October 2005

Raw Story is reporting the pregnant-with-indictments investigation has something of a flow chart:

Those close to the investigation say that Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has been told that David Wurmser, then a Middle East adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, met with Cheney and his chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby in June 2003 and told him that Plame set up the Wilson trip. He asserted that it was a boondoggle because she was a CIA agent, the sources said.

Libby then shared the information with Karl Rove, President Bush's deputy chief of staff, the sources said. Wurmser also passed on the same information about Wilson and his CIA to Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley and Security Adviser Condoleeza Rice, they added.

Within a week, Wurmser, on orders from "executives in the office of the vice president," was told to leak her name to a specific group of reporters...

Wurmser told

Libby (and possibly Cheney; it's not clear if you read closely); Libby then told

Rove, Hadley, and Rice.

If the story is accurate, once the leak occurred, all of the above would likely have had knowledge that the leak was illegal and who was responsible. Lots of folks in trouble here.

Where Wurmser got the information isn't specified.

Interesting week ahead.