With trembling, jittery fingers, I ransacked web site after web site looking for an angry fix. The paucity of the news today has me feeling jumpy, irritable, disoriented and fretting a long "dry" weekend. But then I came across this new Murray Waas piece. One tidbit is that Miller did not come forward with the June meeting until she was confronted with Secret Service logs...suddenly her memory came oozing back, viscuous and slow. They still had to "refresh her recollection" on other things as well.
There's all kinds of information in the story. I haven't parsed it thoroughly yet - I don't know if there are any major blockbusters. As someone in withdrawal, however, I thought that I would linger over it -word by word- who knows when more sustenance will come? Here's an excerpt...after the flip. Enjoy!!
Libby has told federal investigators, according to legal sources familiar with his testimony, that he told Miller at the meeting that he had heard that Wilson's wife had played a role in Wilson being selected for the Niger assignment. But Libby testified regarding both the June 23 and July 8 meeting that he had never named Plame nor told Miller that she worked for the CIA, because either he did not know that at the time, or, if he had heard Plame was a CIA employee, he did not know whether it was true.
Miller's grand jury testimony as well her notes on the July 8 meeting contradict Libby's version. Miller's notes indicate that Libby did indeed tell her that Plame worked for the CIA. Her notes said, according to Miller: "Wife works at Winpac." Asked for an explanation by the grand jury, Miller has said she testified she knew that Winpac meant Weapons Intelligence, Non-Proliferation, and Arms Control, a CIA unit.
Murray Waas - National Journal