Leakers leaking leaks
July 18, 2005Murray Waas provides some good commentary in Prospect (and more in his blog) on the Fitzgerald’s Plame Inquiry. He notes how reporting on an investigation about self serving anonymous leaks is now being driven by another series of what seem suspiciously like self serving anonymous leaks.
The unnamed lawyer also told both the Times and the Post that it was Novak who first broached the subject of Plame with Rove, with Novak saying that he had heard that Plame worked for the CIA. Both newspapers quoted the attorney as saying that Rove responded, “I heard that, too.”
The coverage underscores the secrecy surrounding Fitzgerald’s grand-jury investigation. The few leaks that constitute public knowledge of the investigation’s progress have largely come from one side: the defense attorneys’. And what they have to say is oftentimes self-serving, misleading, and in some cases untrue. Their all-too-willing collaborators have been the nation’s leading newspapers.
