Eight Mystery Pages! The stuff of movies!:
There are eight blank pages in the public version of a decision the federal appeals court in Washington issued in February. The decision ordered two reporters to be jailed unless they agreed to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a C.I.A. operative, Valerie Wilson. What is in those pages is one of the enduring mysteries in the investigation.
In a filing yesterday, the special prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, told the court that he had no objection to the unsealing of parts of those pages, and he gave hints about what they say.
The pages, in a concurring opinion by Judge David S. Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, analyze secret submissions by Mr. Fitzgerald. Judge Tatel suggested, in a terse and cryptic public summary of what he wrote in the withheld pages, that testimony from the reporters, Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, was needed to determine whether a government official committed a crime in identifying Ms. Wilson.
Tom Maguires comments on what isn’t in those eight pages.
Stormy70
Narnia! Next week!
Plame is boring.
Foeper
No she is’nt. There is a new study called Plameology or Plameologist. It studies the transition from traditional treason, the organized crime investigation, and the use of spy terrorists or bombers instead of the traditional operations officer in the intelligence community – with YOU PAYING THE BILL.
France, Italy, and now Germany(they waited too long to put a Plame in) are all paying just like Spain and those Spanish operations officers in Iraq.
nyrev
The best part of the link John posted is the comments. Most of the people who comment here are wise to DougJ now, but it’s kind of fun to watch him mess with the heads of people who don’t know any better yet.
ppGaz
Stormy is boring.
CaseyL
nyrev – Isn’t it a hoot? I squee’d when I saw him working his dark, dark magic over there :D
Steve S
Why is noone talking about the good things that happen when a CIA agent is outed?
Krista
Damn those libruls – they just don’t understand that compromising national security is justifiable if it will keep the public from questioning their government.
DougJ
That’s not me. There seems to be someone with the same name who posts regularly at Totten and now has taken to posting at Tom Maguire.
Pb
What a maroon.
Sorry DougJ–you’ve got a stupid doppelganger.