And while we're talking about the Plame case....

....let's talk about Jailhouse Judy. Just who is she? Simply a WH press whore? Someone once wondered whether she might be CIA herself. Or maybe the Bush administration's CIA mole? Perhaps, at the least, she is one source of the leaking of Valerie Plame's position.

Whoever she is, she's apparently pretty important to the White House.

Ever since President Bush slipped him through the UN's backdoor via a recess appointment, John Bolton has been giving reporters the cold shoulder. He strode past them when he showed up at the UN on August 2nd to present his letter of appointment, and WaPo columnist Al Kamen shows that he hasn’t opened up much since (via TWN).

But Bolton apparently has a warm spot in his heart for at least one journalist: none other than Judy Miller.

According to a trusted Judy File source, Bolton recently took time out of his busy schedule to pay a jailhouse visit to Judy.

No word on what they talked about.

Maybe they swapped notes on Pat Fitzgerald (Judy: “He really got mad when I wouldn’t tell him what he wanted...” Bolton: “...and they say I’ve got a temper!”(laughter all around))

Or maybe they just talked about old times, when Bolton was reportedly a regular source for Miller’s WMD and national security reports.

Just two potential Plamegate sources shooting the breeze.

  Huffington post

What is the new UN ambassador doing visiting a jailed reporter? Fitzgerald's investigation getting too close?

Maybe he was just getting the name of a replacement press tool to feed phony Iran stories to the paper while Judy's in jail.

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