Jason Leopold - Keep Hadley Alive!

Jason Leopold has an article suggesting that Stephen Hadley of the NSC may be the mystery source for Bob Woodward in the Plame leak.  Since Mr. Leopold is working off the transcript of the Feb 24 hearing where this was discussed, he ought to be able to address this bit of puzzlement - per the WaPo, 

Defense attorneys in yesterday's hearing described the official as someone who did not work at the White House... .

Is it possible that Libby's attorney's are being cute  - maybe as Deputy National Security Advisor, Hadley had an office in the EOB across the way from the White House.  Anyway, the transcript might clear up the context in which this comment was made, and give it a bit more (or less) weight, since the attorneys are less likely to spin the judge than to spin reporters ("Defense attorneys in yesterday's hearing" is ambiguous - does it mean "Defense attorneys said it during the hearing", or "Attorneys who were at the hearing told reporters later...").

Rick Ballard with MJW and Emptywheel have both been puzzling over the Armitage question; I will be entering an indeterminate period of radio silence (or, in Bauer-speak, "going dark").

Background to the "It's Armitage" case is here.  And the recent defense filings certainly featured both Hadley and Armitage, so maybe the defense is keeping options open.

Comments

[kim]

Note, too, that the pair cannot be compelled to testify against each other, unless perhaps given immunity. Is that the way through this? I don't like that solution. My need for justice is too great. and punishment is prophylactic.
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[kim]

Nice, JF. there was a big deal here awhile ago about those six reporters being notified after Novak's article hit the wires, but I believe the connection with Fitz's White House source was not as explicitly made as you point out. More the fool be he. When does Fitz get audited?
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[clarice]

IIRC "whistleblower" was Joe himself, who reported these calls and on further examnation the reporters he said received these calls either denied the report or said they all occurred after the Novak article and all that had occurred was when they asked about Ambassador Munchausen people in the WH referred them to Novak's article.

[kim]

And Fitz hasn't figured this out. How about we have our own little listing of Fitz's errors. Like a timeline of his goofs. Then email it to him.
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[clarice]

I've been working this weekend on an article on the Motion to Dismiss during which I had to read more carefully than before the Libby brief..I think his arguments are very compelling.

[kim]

It's like one of those bad news good news jokes. Please don't dismiss, even if you should.
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[Sue]

I wish Tom would come back. Or we moved this off-topic anyway comment section to one that didn't take 1/2 hour to refresh for those of us on dial up.

::grin::

[kim]

I feel for you, Sue. I was on a 1997 Mac with meager memory. They Won't Stop was an ordeal for me. I finally took to running off to the library basement to post, but my cell phone had no service, there. Choices.
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[larwyn]

Dial-up here also. Kim @ 9:06 is
708th comment.

Is that a record?

[larwyn]

9:05!

[Sue]

Kim,

What are you saying? I'm exaggerating? I'm prone to that. ::grin::

[kim]

They Won't Stop got over 1300, and only stopped when Tom made us stop.

Sue, no, I was on broadband. I can hardly imagine dial-up anymore.

Twenty years ago I used a 512K(brain-damaged) original Mac to research scuba diving in pregnancy. I could only look at abstracts, then order the papers. It cost $25 in long-distance fees, and $25 in copying fees, but I got my answer. Little data, but probably safe at half maximum depth and half maximum duration.
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[Sue]

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[Sue]

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[Sue]

2 minutes is shy of 1/2 an hour. ::grin:: But, in my defense, 2 minutes seems like 1/2 an hour when I'm waiting on it to refresh.

[kim]

They Won't Stop got so it would freeze my computer. The depth of my addiction froze my soul.
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[JM Hanes]

There are only 9 comments on the Mullah thread. How about moving over there? I'll go first.....

[windansea]

LOL...our poop and scoot troll has got himself banned over at Protein Wisdom...top part is Jeff...in brackets is Jeff Goldstein reply

Jeff, these peristent attempts to defend the lamest lies of the Bush administration in support of the war in Iraq are just humiliating to you.

Where’d you go to school again, Ole Miss? Or was it some community colege in Maryland? I forget.

[Towson University, Johns Hopkins, University of Denver, and summer work in crit theory at Cornell; and again, you seem to have me confused with Bob Kerrey. Tell me, is he still a Democrat? I mean, now that he’s had the gall to say we need to better scrutinize the pre-war connections that, should they prove to be true, would force people like you to surrender your entire smug worldview?

By the way, Ole Miss is a good school. Whereas you are just an asshole who needs to start commenting elsewhere - ed]

Posted by Jeff | permalink
on 03/26 at 02:01 AM

[topsecretk9]

Wind
Smug indeed.

I am a teensy surprised, that [email protected] would make fun of the college someone attended though. Who does he think he is?

[Larry]

OT: No more pickin and grinnin. Buck Owens has died. R. I. P. :(

[kim]

Raoul Malo was at his last birthday party and I think he sounds like Roy Orbison.
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[Jeff]

That, of course, was not me over at Protein Wisdom, a site I have never been to. I would not in a million years make fun of the college someone went to. What was Goldstein's term of criticism, Windansea? Oh that's right.

[kim]

The comment certainly didn't meet your standards, Jeff but must you assume the mantle of 'poop and scoot troll' in order to be insulted? I find your deposits not only odoriferous, but also nutritious. Little delights me more than rolling my head around in them.
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