[IrishMike]

Audio Link and transcript links.

[Lurker]

FYI.

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[IrishMike]

Text of a Recorded Conversation Between Armitage and Woodward
http://www.nysun.com/article/48554

[johnny7]

“ ...a profanity-laden rant in which a former deputy secretary of state, Richard Armitage, told a prominent journalist, Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, about Ms. Plame's ties to Langley”

And the DBM treated his Plame gaffe as if it was so sweetly innocent. Man, how I hate these skunks!

[angkor]

Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, about Ms. Plame's ties to Langley a month before she was unmasked in a syndicated column

Yes yes, but when did the the bartender at Kinkead's and the maitre de at CityZen know about it?

[bjc]

I don't get the import of Libby being the source of the story about the trip being in response to some inquiry by Cheney, since there is apparently documentation that the trip was organized prior to any query from the OVP. Is this simply another example of an uniformed reporter?

[silverleaf]

Mr. Woodward testified that the disclosure from Mr. Armitage came in a June 13, 2003, interview as the pair discussed news reports that a former ambassador, Joseph Wilson IV, had traveled to Africa at the CIA's request to investigate claims that Iraq was seeking uranium from Niger

I believe this frappe arose because Wilson was claiming (or allowing his journalist friends to believe) that he, Joe Wilson, was sent to Africa at the request of VP Cheney.... this made Joe look like a big man on a mission from the highest levels of govt - instead of being a semi-contractor hack who traveled on a 5 star boondoggle on the CIA's dime because his wife pulled some strings.

Libby and others in the know were most adamant in refuting the involvement or even prior awareness of the VP or the White House in "Joe's big sweet mint tea adventure"

[showme_the_Glory]

I haven't been following all the details but it sounds like what I first heard was pretty much correct. Plame in the CIA was not a secret to many.

[JWinNC]

geepers... what a circus... the trial about nothing continues

[Loyal Buckeye]

Based on the little I have seen and heard from Armitage, I am not impressed.

[popdonnelly]

The Associated Press is doing its best today to blame it all on the Administration. They're lying. The Armitage tape shows that Joe Wilson was calling around DC to let everyone know it was him and his wife who were responsible for the Niger trip. The entire story of the Administration waging a secret campaign against Wilson is a lie.

Unless the news media admits publically to the truth in this case, I will never believe a single thing they publish again.

[Freee-dame]

It seems that Novak wrote the article on July 11 and sent it out to his 100 or so syndicated papers that day. Though it was embargoed until Monday, July 14, anyone in the newsrooms that got the copy of the 11th was free to read it. Did any of us in the general public ever know before this that columns went out over the AP (an enemy of Republicans/conservatives) wire? or that news people had access to columns up to three days before they were published?

Perhaps some of the news people testifying that they learned about Valerie Plame from Novak's column are hoping that the defense/American people would not find out that they learned it from the embargoed copy they had access to before publishing. Is misleading lying? not if you are a "prominant" newsperson, it seems.

[Howlin]

Scooter Ping!!!

[art_rocks]

As I am not a lawyer, I have a question. If the prosecutor is allowed to play tapes from the grand jury as evidence, is the defense allowed to see the grand jury evidence so they could tapes that are beneficial to their case?