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Author Message   themp Supporter Username: Themp Post Number: 2946 Registered: 12-2001 Posted on Thursday, May 25, 2006 - 12:52 pm:        As you can probably tell, the central issue of this part of Libby's testimony is that he did have conversations about Dick's annotated copy of Wilson's op-ed. But that he must not have had them until after Novak's column. Because if he had, then he obviously would have re-remembered Plame's identity, given the way Dick had suggested in the notes that Plame had sent Wilson on a junket. Which puts Libby in the position of arguing that he and Dick had a conversation in which Dick made the case that Plame sent Wilson on a junket ... after Novak already published a column to that effect. Okay, whatever Scooter. Fitzgerald's not buying it. In one passage, he takes one Dick annotation after another Dick annotation and asks whether Libby remembers Dick talking to him about the questions he wrote on Wilson's op-ed. Then Fitzgerald points out the same logical problem with Libby's claims I pointed out. Q. And lastly it says, or did his wife send him on a junket? Do you recall the Vice-President indicating or asking you or anyone in your presence whether or not Ambassador Wilson's wife had arranged to have him sent on a junket? A. I think I recall him -- I don't recall him asking me that particular question, but I think I recall him musing about that. Q. Okay, and do you recall when it was that he mused about that? A. I think it was after the Wilson column. Q. Okay, and obviously -- A. I don't mean the Wilson column, I'm sorry, I misspoke. I think it was after the Novak column. Q. Okay. And you mentioned last time that you thought he had written, handwritten here, may have been discussed at a later date, like August or September by the Vice-President? A. Yes, sir. Q. And -- A. I don't know, later. I don't know when, but yes. Q. Okay. And can you tell us why it would be that the Vice-President read the Novak column and had the questions some of which apparently seem to be answered by the Novak column, would go back and pull out an original July 6th op-ed piece and write on that? http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2006/05/libby_forgets_d.html#mo re