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Judith Miller Finds Earlier Notes on Libby

By Jeralyn, Section Valerie Plame Leak Case
Posted on Fri Oct 07, 2005 at 02:01:54 PM EST
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Uh-oh. For Scooter Libby. Reuters reports that Judith Miller has found and turned over notes on an earlier conversation from June, 2003 with Scooter Libby.

Miller's notes about a June 2003 conversation with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, could be important to prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's case by establishing exactly when Libby and other administration officials first started talking to reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson.

What else happened in June, 2003? One thing is the classified State Department memo that mentioned Valerie Plame. WAPO reported

The material in the memo about Wilson's wife was based on notes taken by an INR analyst who attended a Feb. 19, 2002, meeting at the CIA where Wilson's intelligence-gathering trip to Niger was discussed.

Bloomberg reported in July, 2005:

Another key question that Fitzgerald is interested in, according to the grand jury witness and the lawyers familiar with the case, is whether Rove or Libby learned of this earlier report and, if so, shared its content with reporters.

So, if Libby told Miller about the memo in June, and she has it in her notes, Libby could be in big trouble if he denied it. On the other hand, maybe this is what Libby meant when he said Miller could help him. Maybe her notes show no discussion of the memo.

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