Posted on 09/14/2006 7:12:55 PM PDT by MichiganMan
Fred Barnes
THE rogues' gallery of those who acted badly in the CIA "leak" case turns out to be different from what the media led us to expect. Note that we put the word "leak" in quotation marks, because it's clear now that there was no leak at all, just idle talk, and certainly there was no smear campaign against former US ambassador Joseph Wilson for criticising President George W.Bush's Iraq policy. It's as if a giant hoax were perpetrated on the country - by the media, by partisan opponents of the Bush administration, even by several Bush subordinates who betrayed the President and their White House colleagues. The hoax lingered for three years and is only now being fully exposed for what it was. Let's start at the top of the rogues' list:
Richard Armitage, the deputy secretary of state under Colin Powell, was the first to reveal that Wilson's wife was a CIA employee. He blabbed carelessly to Bob Woodward of The Washington Post, then to columnist Robert Novak, who mentioned it in a July 2003 column. Armitage, after admitting this to the FBI in October 2003, stood by silently year after year as Vice-President Dick Cheney, Cheney's chief of staff, Scooter Libby, Karl Rove and other White House officials were blamed for what he had done, and Bush suffered politically.
Loyalty is not Armitage's strong suit.
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Boy, Colin's name sure is popping up lately.
Maybe Fitzgerald should call him to testify.
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HA HA, John "Vichy" Kerry trying to further the talking points of his disgraced former campaign advisor Joe "Weasel" Wilson.
You'd think that Kerry would have the common sense to stay far away from the insidious weasels that have perpetrated this hoax on the public, but then common sense has never been Kerry's strong suit......
bttt - thanks for posting.
Thanks for the ping -- good on Fred Barnes.
What a mess. The surprise is, the truth is finally coming out.
Weasels of a feather, clump together.
Anytime, its a great summation of a story that is, by his own admission, "too complex" for Chris Matthews. It seems straightforward enough to me, but I suppose Chris knows his limitations. Poor guy, at this rate he's probably challenged making change. But hey, at least he admits it.
Oh, and BUMP.
Change your handle to Mr. Thesaurus. If I had you around when I posted I could have gone on but I ran out adjectives rhyming with "ul". :-}
Powell is probably responsible for the chants of No WMDs found in Iraq before we had controlled Iraq.
He probably was told by his Russian and Syrian Friends that all of Saddam's WMDs were now in Syria. Then, he told his rat buddies and of course the MSM controllers.
"Great summary. One thing, Armitage according to Novak did not blab carelessly to Novak, it was deliberate, he expected the "revelation" to be published. It was a deliberate betrayal by Armitage and Powell of the President. They then kept quiet for years and watched the President twist in the wind while he dealt with two wars."
Thanks for posting this.
He certainly did!
Not that I'm holding my breath, but I'm curious what the rationalization for Armitage not being charged with anything is.
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