Among the several stories out this morning noting the release of NYT reporter Judy Miller from further obligations to the Plame grand jury, this graph in the WaPo piece is interesting:

...As early as May of that year [2003], Cheney's office was actively seeking information about Wilson from the CIA, according to former senior administration officials. Libby was aware of the diplomat and his mission by the time he talked with a Washington Post reporter in early June. By then -- one month before Plame was unmasked -- the State Department had prepared a memo on the Niger mission that contained information in a section marked "(S)" for secret. Colin L. Powell, then secretary of state, brought the memo on a trip to Africa by President Bush in the days before Novak's column was published.

Rove and Libby had always suggested their interest in Wilson was so casual, so innocent that they couldn't even remember where they heard about his wife. Yeah, right.

Posted by Laura at October 13, 2005 08:49 AM