Posted on 03/13/2006 8:02:26 AM PST by blogblogginaway
WASH POST's Ben Bradlee Claims Plame Leaker Was Richard Armitage Mon Mar 13 2006 10:48:34 ET
THE WASHINGTON POST's famous Watergate editor Ben Bradlee claims that it was former State Department Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage who was the individual who leaked the identity of CIA official Valerie Plame.
In the latest issue of VANITY FAIR: "Woodward was in a tricky position. People close to him believe that he had learned about Plame from his friend Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's former deputy, who has been known to be critical of the administration and who has a blunt way of speaking. 'That Armitage is the likely source is a fair assumption,' former WASHINGTON POST editor Ben Bradlee said."
'I had heard about an e-mail that was sent that had a lot of unprintable language in it.'"
Developing...
FACTS or shut up.
Or more percisely, when the results of the premature ending came to fruition.
When the REAL truth starts coming out, watch this story go poof! How can Patrick Fitzgerald be anything short of an incompetent boob? Common sense says you first produce rock-solid evidence that Plame was undercover or you have NO CRIME. Not only has Fitzgerald not done this, but he seems to think it won't even be an issue. He's banking on a plea agreement that he will never get.
Because maybe there was something bigger going on?
Maybe Armitage (and Powell, and Tenet, and "others") had designs that had all to do with embarrassing the White House, generally, and Bush, specifically?
It's no secret that the tensions between the various "camps" within the administration. The "Cheney camp", the "Powell camp", the "Rumsfeld camp", blah, blah. The "eeeevil neo cons" vs. the "doves".
Unfortunately, our game should be focused on 1 thing: kill our enemies.
Unfortunately, our real enemies are here at home.
They are the liberals that run around deconstructing our society at every chance they get. They are the willing accomplices in the press. They are the illegal aliens that are rotting this country from the inside out. They are those that indulge in the social malaise and suckle off of the government teat and continue to pump more children out by the truckload.
Yeah, we need to kill the sons-a-bitches that would seek mass destruction on our societies, but it might be a good idea to address these other issues first.
Instead, we get some BS political games between different "camps". It's a friggin' joke.
No, because the true beat journalist is gone, replaced in the budding journalist's pantheon by The Op-Ed Writer. They'd rather thrust their deeply-held beliefs in front of a captive audience than report on the ACTIONS of others.
This is not really news. That was a foregone conclusion when Woodward came forward. All one had to do was to read Woodward's book to know this. Armitage is, as was stated, a blunt speaker. And he and Powell were joined at the hip anyway.
But he is in no legal jeopardy because Plame was not a covert agent. A "non-story" story.
The WaPo's possibly famous Watergate editor and possible journalist Ben Bradlee claims that it was former State Department Deputy Secretary Richard Armitage who was the individual who leaked the identity of CIA official Valerie Plame.
The whole point is that Valerie was supposed to be NONofficial. WaPo hasn't got a clue.
Ben Bradlee is a senile old fart who's trying to recapture the glory days of Watergate.
I still say it was Rove in a rubber mask. Like the one he used for Osama...
I forgot, the MSM will jump to the next "controversy" and beat that dead horse some more. Did you hear about Nixon and Watergate?
Lets be honest. Just put a couple of teenagers out at the CIA headquarters for six months...collect license plate numbers and I can publish a document with every single CIA member on it. These idiots park just like every other government worker...in the big parking lot outside of their complex.
Well, well, well, isn't this a fine how-do-you-do...
Getting snacks ready..
That's not the worst typo that you could have made.
Yes, my comparison was very superficial. No question, I'm guilty. And, yes, Bradlee is no longer managing editor (I think that was his position during Woodstein-days). But it is interesting that his "jounalistic ethics" -- that's the currency in which he deals -- only go so far. I'm sure Old Ben still considers himself a jounalist.
They were after the President and, most likely, Rove. That Libby allegedly lied to during the investigation is only a consequence of the investigation itself, not the subject matter it was investigating.
how would outing Plame do that
Well, if I knew that, I wouldn't be posting this note right now. I would probably be pulling some strings and banking a lot more cash.
Look, bottom line is: this type of thing is a game to these people and I don't think that this is what our country is supposed to be about.
And, I know, there has always been and always will be this kind of BS in a political process, but that comment never makes it anymore palatable for me.
FYI
Is this an orchestrated subject of the day??
The story may be old and stale, but it's still extremely important, because it's plum at the center of the rogue element in the CIA, the manipulators of news at such major sources as the New York Times and Washington Post, the DNC, and the traitors on the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Jay Rockefeller. Plus, as this current story suggests, the State Department.
It's a golden opportunity to expose some of this treasonous trash to the light of day, and the news media can't complain, because they were the ones who pushed it. I want to see more reporters and leakers doing jail time, and this is one of the keys to accomplishing that.
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