Everyone flirted with the "I heard it from a reporter" defense, talking about how they learned about Valerie Plame. Where did that come from? It wasn’t true, but both Libby and Rove gave it a shot.
Judith Miller didn’t remember that she’d met Libby on June 23rd. When confronted with the log-in roster documenting their meeting, she found it in her notes.
I don’t know which "official" was Novak’s source, but I wonder if Libby said to Miller on June 23rd, 2003:
"Look, this can’t be coming from me. So spread it around, so we can say we heard it from some reporter." Miller then passes it on, to Novak, or someone who told Novak, and he got some "official" to say it. I’m suggesting that the "I heard it from a reporter" was a preconceived defense that didn’t hold water…
Plus, Judith Miller is a known conduit to the press from her prewar reporting debacle and race across Iraq in a Hummer.
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