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WASH POST: It's unfortunate so many people took Joe Wilson seriously...(Drudge headline)
Washington Post ^
| Sept. 1, 2006
Posted on 09/01/2006 6:46:03 AM PDT by AZRepublican
It turns out that the person who exposed CIA agent Valerie Plame was not out to punish her husband.
WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years. But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame's cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.
Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported the invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the White House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr. Wilson accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to destroy him. Unaware that Ms. Plame's identity was classified information, Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak "in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip," according to a story this week by the Post's R. Jeffrey
Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr. Armitage.
It follows that one of the most sensational charges leveled against the Bush White House -- that it orchestrated the leak of Ms. Plame's identity to ruin her career and thus punish Mr. Wilson -- is untrue. The partisan clamor that followed the raising of that allegation by Mr. Wilson in the summer of 2003 led to the appointment of a special prosecutor, a costly and prolonged investigation, and the indictment of Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, on charges of perjury.
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TOPICS: Editorial; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 4thestate5thcolumn; armitage; cialeak; d; drudge; plame; plamegate; wilson; wmd; wot; yellowcake
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To: AZRepublican
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:47:18 AM PDT
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: AZRepublican
Is this their idea of an apology?
To: AZRepublican
Technically you were right.
Joe Wilson's story is a Dead-line.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:48:35 AM PDT
by
new yorker 77
(FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
To: AZRepublican
It's unfortunate that so many people took him seriously.It's unfortunate he's not in prison being horsewhipped on a daily basis.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:49:06 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(Zarqawi died, liberals cried....)
To: Paine's Ghost
I find it amazing that they are willing to blame Wilson for the Plame kerfuffle at all.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:49:30 AM PDT
by
GreyFriar
( (3rd Armored Division - Spearhead))
To: AZRepublican
This is not from the Washington Times????
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:49:53 AM PDT
by
The South Texan
(The Democrat Party and the leftist (ABCCBSNBCCNN NYLATIMES)media are a criminal enterprise!)
To: AZRepublican
WE'RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie PlameYou are??? Since when?!
You're reluctant to return to it because YOU GOT IT WRONG.
To: AZRepublican
"It's unfortunate so many people took Joe Wilson seriously . . ." (including us).
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:50:16 AM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(If the people lead, the leaders will follow.)
To: AZRepublican
It's nice of them to make treat this with such emphasis.
Their story being a FRIDAY DUMP along with it being BURIED IN THE PAPER.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:50:47 AM PDT
by
new yorker 77
(FAKE POLLS DO NOT TRANSLATE INTO REAL VOTERS!)
To: NRA1995
The real shame is Wilson was never called before a Grand Jury. That sack of sh&& can't help but perjure himself.
To: AZRepublican
This should be on the front page of every newspaper.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:50:57 AM PDT
by
Guard Dog
("Who fears the wrath of cowards?" Thomas Paine)
To: AZRepublican
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:51:43 AM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: AZRepublican
Does Wilson now call for Armitage to be marched out of the State Dept.?
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:52:40 AM PDT
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. "--Aeschylus)
To: Arm_Bears
"It's unfortunate so many people took Joe Wilson seriously . . ." (including us).
(laughing) That is a great comeback Mr. Arm_Bears.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:53:11 AM PDT
by
AZRepublican
("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
To: AZRepublican
Like the WP didn't know the whole truth......
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:53:29 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark!)
To: AZRepublican
Found something interesting yesterday:
Kerry Exploring Cabinet Options
An excerpt:
A dark-horse candidate for defense, some said, is Richard L. Armitage, Bush's second in command at the State Department.
Remember...many of the players involved worked for the Kerry campaign. Could Armitage have sold his soul for a potential Cabinet position?
To: AZRepublican
I wonder if Dana Priest of the WP is being investigated as part of the CIA leak probe?
She has been very quite since her friend had to resign from the CIA.
To: AZRepublican; Grampa Dave
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:55:00 AM PDT
by
george76
(Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
To: AZRepublican
"That's not to say that Mr. Libby and other White House officials are blameless. As prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald has reported, when Mr. Wilson charged that intelligence about Iraq had been twisted to make a case for war, Mr. Libby and Mr. Cheney reacted by inquiring about Ms. Plame's role in recommending Mr. Wilson for a CIA-sponsored trip to Niger, where he investigated reports that Iraq had sought to purchase uranium. Mr. Libby then allegedly disclosed Ms. Plame's identity to journalists and lied to a grand jury when he said he had learned of her identity from one of those reporters. Mr. Libby and his boss, Mr. Cheney, were trying to discredit Mr. Wilson; if Mr. Fitzgerald's account is correct, they were careless about handling information that was classified."
They've still got it wrong.
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posted on
09/01/2006 6:55:20 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway~~John Wayne)
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