This will be a short, but useful diary to anyone interested in Gannon/ Plame and the newest meme being spread re: the plame memo. I posted this info in the live CNN thread in response to comments, but only did so after it was at 400+ comments.
Gannon and the right-wing blogosphere are making the case that he copied the question he asked Ambassador Wilson from the WSJ piece by David Cloud on Oct. 17th. I covered this article in the original timeline and the timeline summary... brief re-cap after the jump as well as link to summary.
the wsj article came out anywhere from 3 days to 5 days before gannon conducted his phone interview with wilson. but, there are factors involved, including subsequent statements and the WaPo article of dec. 26th that suggest strongly that someone told him to ask that question.
the wsj article was the only mention after novak and before gannon of a classified memo and neither novak nor cloud of the wsj conclusively stated what was in it -- i.e. plame's name. and the cia would not confirm... then there is the whole tone of the interview and the agenda revealed therein.
imho, i would like to suggest anyone interested to re-read the summary because the gop will be pushing the wsj article hard to try to skirt around the access and agenda of gannon. and it would be nice if more kossacks could familiarize/ re-familiarize with the work we on the propagannon crew did on the timeline to make up your own mind.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/2/9/191334/0754