The Fight Over Andrea Mitchell

The defense's filing:

The defense intends to elicit testimony from Ms. Mitchell to show that she
was intensely covering the Wilson story during the relevant time period. Her activities
included interviewing Mr. Wilson on television and talking to government officials
(including officials at the CIA) about his trip. Based on her focus on the Wilson story,
the defense will explore the likelihood that Ms. Mitchell had heard a rumor, prior to July
14, 2003, that Mr. Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA.


Fitzgerald is trying to block Mitchell's testimony. He doesn't want Libby to question her about this statement that she made on Capitol Report on October 3, 2003.

Here is Fitz's filing.

From the Capitol Report:

MURRAY: And the second question is: Do we have any idea how widely known it was in Washington that Joe Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA?

MITCHELL: It was widely known among those of us who cover the intelligence community and who were actively engaged in trying to track down who among the foreign service community was the envoy to Niger. So a number of us began to pick up on that. But frankly I wasn’t aware of her actual role at the CIA and the fact that she had a covert role involving weapons of mass destruction, not until Bob Novak wrote it.
Andrea Mitchell has since disavowed the statement, saying she was confused, or it was taken out of context, or she was just wrong.

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