Posted on 08/29/2006 7:27:38 PM PDT by kellynla
The leak of information about an undercover CIA employee that provoked a special prosecutor's investigation of senior White House officials came from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, according to a former Armitage colleague at the department.
Armitage told newspaper columnist Robert D. Novak in the summer of 2003 that Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the Iraq war, worked for the CIA, the colleague said. In October of that year, Armitage admitted to senior State Department officials that he had made the remark, which was based on a classified report he had read.
Novak collected what he considered to be a confirming comment from White House political strategist Karl Rove, then wrote a column in July 2003 that cited Plame's CIA employment as a reason to question the credentials of the critic, former U.S. ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV.
In 2002, the CIA sent Wilson to Niger to determine whether Iraq was seeking nuclear material there. He subsequently accused the White House of distorting intelligence to justify the invasion of Iraq.
Novak's column set off a chain of events that culminated in the appointment of special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald and a grand jury's indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, for lying to investigators about his own conversations with reporters regarding Plame.
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Powell sure comes off looking bad as a result of this.
MLH - Modified Limited Hangout.
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why? no one did anything wrong here, she was not covert, and she had inserted herself into the Niger story by recommending her husband for the trip.
don't forget - Libby is not charged with outing her.
The buffoons in the Senate need to be demanding "a probe" into what actually went on with this Plame fiasco and have the 'RATS explain why so many taxpayer dollars were thrown into this sewer.
Your link seems to go to Hitchen's Slate article....not the WP
Your links are messed up. They just go to another Free Republic thread.
obviously, I am not talking about Fitzgerald.
Libby fell into a perjury trap set by Fitzgerald - Powell and Armitage did not set that perjury trap, and they did not violate the intelligence acts, since Plame was not covert.
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Here's the correct link.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801278_pf.html
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there are no charges that could be brought against Armitage, which is why Fitzgerald didn't do anything to him.
look, the grounds for immediate dismissal of Fitzgerald are clearly in place now. That likely will not happen, the administration has never been able to do anything but play defense on this story, so I don't expect Fitzgerald to be fired - the sheeple are so ignorant about the facts in this case, the MSM would just spin his firing into a "saturday night massacre" watergate issue, and the sheeple would believe it.
I have neither the time or the inclination to point out the indiscretions of Powell & Armitage.
But since you have the link to Christopher Hitchens article on this entire mess...try reading it and then maybe you will see what Powell & Armitage did wrong!
Someone, anyone, needs to OUT Joe Wilson for his role in Niger,,,his company has ties to terrorist sympathizer ALAMOUDI!!!!
Powell/Armitage are co-cabalists...coup-plotters.
where is that link?
Libby is charged with perjury - with telling the FBI X when other facts show he knew X at a different time. now, we can argue about the facts as they pertain to this "perjury". But what are you saying, that Armitage and Powell should have gone public before the GJ convened?
how? this information Armitage "leaked", wasn't a leak at all - it was a legitimate piece of information in the rebuttal argument against Wilson.
what are you saying, that Powell and Armitage set the whole thing up by "leaking" this non-leak? that this communication to Novak was a planned setup to have a special prosecutor, and a GJ, and a perjury trap for Libby? that is a stretch.
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