will the hanky panky never end?

Posted on Saturday 3 February 2007

eriposte is not the only one poring over the Libby exhibits [see below]. Canuck Stuck in the Muck [see comments in The Next Hurrah] first called my attention to this one:

Hey, Marcy. Take a look at the date on the hand written memo, GX104. Maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight, but if you’re right, Libby would not want the world to know that he knew anything on June 11th. This document image is such high resolution that you can really zoom in on the date. Notice that the initial numeral one is a slightly tipped vertical line with a half hook at the bottom. If you zoom in on the overwritten second numeral, you’ll see that the 2 is written over a previous numeral with the identical tipped vertical line ending in a half hook. It also looks to me as if there was some consternation about which numeral to superimpose on the 11, because the top half of the 2 almost looks like a closed loop. Again, if you look closely you can see at least three strokes–the original 11, something that looks like the lower left-hand part of a closed loop, and the multiple iterations of the numeral 2 overtop all. Like I said, maybe the hat’s a little too tight. Or I’m a bear of very little brain. One or the other.

It’s in Libby’s notes from June 12th, 2003. As you can see, it’s been changed.

The only question is "Why? Why change it from June 11th to June 12th?" Well this is from those notes a bit down the page:

Supposedly, Cheney told Libby that Plame was a C.I.A. Agent on June 12th, 2003. This note says that Libby knew that Valerie Plame, Wilson’s wife, worked for the Counterproliferation Division ["CP"] on the 11th. Wonder what this particular lie is about? I guess after Niger, forgery became a standard operating procedure…

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