{"id":893,"date":"2007-02-07T09:08:12","date_gmt":"2007-02-07T14:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/07\/the-end-of-the-beginning\/"},"modified":"2007-02-07T09:11:35","modified_gmt":"2007-02-07T14:11:35","slug":"the-end-of-the-beginning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/07\/the-end-of-the-beginning\/","title":{"rendered":"the end of the beginning&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.1boringoldman.com\/images\/timeline1.gif\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"justify\"><font color=\"#cc0000\"><strong>Libby&#8217;s Story:<\/strong><\/font> Although Vice President Cheney mentioned that Joseph Wilson&#8217;s wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the C.I.A. in the Counterproliferation Division on June 12th, Libby forget all about it until Tim Russert mentioned it on July 11th in a phone call. After that, he confirmed he&#8217;d heard it with Matthew Cooper [and Judith Miller?].<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><strong><font color=\"#0000ff\">The Story so far in the Trial:<\/font> <\/strong>So far, we&#8217;ve heard from any number of people that Libby not only knew about Valerie Plame, he was actively researching the matter, and spreading the word.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Today, after the rest of the tapes of Libby&#8217;s Grand Jury testimony, we hear what Tim Russert has to say about things. That&#8217;s the Prosecution&#8217;s case. You can follow it on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.firedoglake.com\"><strong>Firedoglake<\/strong><\/a>. Then we move on to the Defense, <strong>the beginning of the end&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Libby&#8217;s Story: Although Vice President Cheney mentioned that Joseph Wilson&#8217;s wife, Valerie Plame, worked for the C.I.A. in the Counterproliferation Division on June 12th, Libby forget all about it until Tim Russert mentioned it on July 11th in a phone call. After that, he confirmed he&#8217;d heard it with Matthew Cooper [and Judith Miller?]. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}