[Laverne]

Some parsing by Powell regarding Armitage....what a crying shame that this whole thing went down the way it did. This just shows what scum Fitzy really is. He knew from the very start (confirmed here by Powell) yet he pursued a witch hunt against the White House anyway. All the while, Powell and Armitage were silent while LIbby spent millions in defense of his misremembering that Fitzy called perjury. Shameful stuff.

[ozzymandus]

I still don’t see why Armitage isn’t the one in trouble.

[hgro]

Colon Bowell is guilty as hell in the the Scooter Libby lynching.

[hgro]

Colon Bowell is guilty as hell in the the Scooter Libby lynching.

[LS]

Reading the “Reagan Diaries” right now. Guess what? Powell OPPOSED Reagan’s attempts to make the USSR back down. He was wimpy in the 1980s, and didn’t get any better.

[jazusamo]

I would add Armitage and Powell to your scum list, they remained silent for nearly three years and watched Libby and the Bush administration be hung out to dry.

[Cyber Liberty]

We already know Powell stabbed Bush in the back by refusing to tell him about Armitage spilling the beans. Anything Powell says is colored by that fact.

[jackv]

bttt

[Enchante]

This must be a new meaning for the word 'parsing' (while trying to give Powell the benefit of any doubt). A better word for what Powell said would be 'dissembling' or 'deceiving' or 'distorting' or 'obfuscating' ..... both Woodward and Novak have said emphatically that Armitage asserted without doubt that Valerie-the-spy worked at the CIA and was involved in sending hubby to drink green tea in Niger, and that Armitage explicitly meant this as an explanation of why Joe Wilson was/is not credible. Powell is blowing a smokescreen after 4 years of devastating silence and dishonesty when he and Armitage could and should have ended this fiasco early on.

Here's Novak's version - one which suggest Armitage sought him out and urged him to publish the Plame information:Here's Novak's version of that conversation: "Well," Armitage replied, "you know his wife works at CIA, and she suggested that he be sent to Niger." "His wife works at CIA?" I asked. "Yeah, in counterproliferation." He mentioned her first name, Valerie. Armitage smiled and said: "That's real Evans and Novak, isn't it?" I believe he meant that was the kind of inside information that my late partner, Rowland Evans, and I had featured in our column for so long. I interpreted that as meaning Armitage expected to see the item published in my column.

[Suzy Quzy]

I PRAY that Libby SUES POWELL and ARMITAGE’s PANTS OFF!! I want to see them PAY BIG MONEY out to Libby!!