State Media really piss me off on this topic, they Never Ever mention the true culprit!
Posted on 11/02/2009 3:09:29 PM PST by tobyhill
Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.
On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.
The Cheney interview reflects a team of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to find out whether the leaks of Plame's CIA identity were orchestrated at the highest level of the White House and carried out by, among others, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.
Among the most basic questions for Cheney in the Plame probe: How did Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA?
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Gee, Hillary did the same thing and nobody batted an eye.
Smart move... Didn’t want to get tripped up stating something he wasn’t 100% sure about and end up in a cell next to Scooter.
Is 6-2” tall? Not in the NBA.
Is 79 a lot? We need context-How did clinton do?
I thought it was Novak that outted her ....
72? 72! What a piker. Why that would not even show up on the stat sheet for a Clinton. One of Hillary’s interviews I think set the world record for equivocal answers can’t remember which one since there were so many during those times.
She also has FBI file copies. Does anyone care.
The right wing balls better start twisting some arms
and quit this pansy wrist slapping. Tit for tat.
How did Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA?
They’re kidding, right?
MSNBC:
As it turned out, Novak wasn’t the only person Armitage talked to about Plame. Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward has also said he was told of Plame’s identity in June 2003. Woodward did not respond to requests for comment for this article, but, as late as last week, he referred reporters to his comments in November 2005 that he learned of her identity in a “casual and offhand” conversation with an administration official he declined to identify. According to three government officials, a lawyer familiar with the case and an Armitage confidant, all of whom would not be named discussing these details, Armitage told Woodward about Plame three weeks before talking to Novak. Armitage has consistently refused to discuss the case; through an assistant last week he declined to comment for this story. Novak would say only: “I don’t discuss my sources until they reveal themselves.”
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek/print/1/displaymode/1098
I believe it was Dick Armey. Novack knew but kept it a secret.
Don’t quote me on that.
Heck, I’d miss at least 72 questions on what I did just yesterday!
OOps, I should have kept my mouth shut
Armitage not Armey. Duh! Sorry
I knew it was a leak of some sort - but she was just a desk jockey, not an agent in the field. So what was the big deal???
Yes, and that cloud was Patrick Fitzgerald.
And judging by the fact that he railroaded an innocent, maybe Cheney was right to stone-wall him.
Armitage outed her. Novak confirmed her employment with CIA headquarters.
If CIA outs you to some reporter calling on the telephone, then believe me, you are not covert.
Fitzgerald ordered Armitage, Colin Powell, and Novak to remain silent while he investigated, what?, for a year and a half at the end of which he convicted a guy who had nothing to do with it.
Armitage confessed his role to Fitz on the very first day of the investigation. The very first day. Fitz deserves at the least to be disbarred and better yet to do time in the cell he had planned for Libby.
The hilarious thing about the whole exercise is that it is pointless.
Dick Cheney, the American hero, has no need to prove anything to Yost and his ilk. :)
So fire away, Don Quixotes! You illustrate yourselves to be deluded numbskulls!!
Because it was a Republican. Democrats get away with worse.
Armitage not Armey.
State Media really piss me off on this topic, they Never Ever mention the true culprit!
Somehow, I don’t think this was such an important thing to the administration that the details would be memorable.
What? You can't recall! Obviously a conspiracy!
No matter what party one belongs to, there memory just goes out the window once they are in DC and under questioning.
K - Thanks :)
Why on Earth would Cheney remember things he wasn’t involved with or details of what amounts to a really stupid false-scandal?
The bottom line is that Plame was not that important except in her own mind and the minds of salivating witch-hunters.
It still just came down to “get the Bush administration” no matter how innocuous it is ....
The irony to me is that the Bush administration did not purge the FBI for the mass homicides at Waco, and for the transfer of law enforcement/surveillance files for political purposes in filegate.
Heads should have rolled for those and other abuses.
Instead the leviathan was given a longer leash and more rations.
Still, I hope Cheney stuffs them even more effectively than G. Gordon Liddy did.
Yes, of course. But it is important for conservatives to know the facts. If Republicans are bull****ting us, then we need to call them OUT. Same goes for the Dems. This is an issue the Dems love because it they can lie about it and no one corrects them. We need to correct them.
The Libs are just mad that Cheney didn’t fall for the perjury trap.
Yep. “You said that on that day you wore a blue tie and we have evidence that it was in fact ‘teal’”.
He read VANITY FAIR, STUPID, boy we sure hell overpaid that special prosc.
If Cheney would run for president and promise to put Fitz in jail (and pardon Libby) I would quit my job and work for his campaign.
Wilson’s NYT op-ed outed his wife first.
Well, that's one instance where Cheney can't compete with the world's smartest woman, Hillary Clinton!
Richard Nixon told his staff many times...If you just say I dont remember you can never be charged with perjury.
A lesson to remember.
I believe Vice President Cheney was far too busy to remember every little detail months or even years later. Tragedy of the whole situation is that the Plame and Wilson were not tried for treason and executed. Democrats are the enemy of
America and will stop at nothing, including giving aid and comfort to America’s enemies to destroy us...think about that!
‘Armitage says he didn't come forward because “the special counsel, once he was appointed, asked me not to discuss this and I honored his request.”
“I thought every day about how I'd screwed up,” he adds.
Armitage never did tell the president, but he's talking now because Fitzgerald told him he could.’
Libby was railroaded, with none of the original charges ever confirmed, Fitz got Libby convicted because his recollection of dates of discussions differed with those of heavy drinking, and now deceased, TV personality Tim Russert. This is the textbook example of how a lawyer with unlimited funds and time can find a way to convict any target. Fitzgerald is more insidious than a blatant crook. He is a tool of criminals hidden in the folds of justice.
Fitzgerald mysteriously exposed the taping of phone conversations, prosecuted Rezko, and then requested that sentencing be delayed - a full year ago. Comments from agents involved suggested that among those recorded were Michelle Obama, Rahm Emmanuel. Rezko is out of sight and nothing ever came of those recordings - nothing ever will as long as Holder is AG.
That Bush didn't fully pardon Libby will forever be a stain on his ethics. Everyone knew Armitage revealed Plame’s employer, and most in Washington knew Mrs. Wilson's name was Valerie Plame.
It is possible, perhaps likely, that this has more to do with Colin Powell than Armitage. Powell, as was seen in the next election, was always a climber with a racist chip on his shoulders. He didn't support Bush Senior, and exposes another weakness of G.W., who certainly knew Powell was not to be trusted, but appointed him anyway. Bush tried to disarm his enemies by appointing many of them to his administration. The Plame/Wilson affair was one result.
Is 79 a lot?
I thought Clinton could’t remember more than 200 times.
The media deliberately omits mentioning that Hillary did the same thing.
Hillary used the same answer a couple of hundred times, when she testified before investigating committes.
And she's Secretary of State!
Actually they did once or twice, but these days they prefer to pretend that Armitage doesn't exist and that Cheney must have been responsible for outing Plame. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend (if it serves the agenda.) Only a very small percentage of the MSM's audience will notice that the legend is a lie.
The official MSM line is that the photo you linked shows a man who does not exist, and the Washington Post never printed this article on Friday, September 8, 2006:
Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak
It usually goes unmentioned that the left's narrative of the Plame affair never made the slightest sense. No one would exact revenge on a political enemy by outing his wife as a CIA agent. What would be the point? How would outing Valerie Plame harm Joe Wilson? Obviously, it would not, in fact it did just the opposite: it made Wilson and Plame famous. They are now represented by the Greater Talent Network:
http://www.greatertalent.com/ValerieandJoseph
Their speaking fee is not mentioned. Presumably if you have to ask, you can't afford them. And let's not forget their books, and the upcoming film Fair Game about the charming couple starring Sean Penn and Naomi Watts. If this is how Dick Cheney exacts revenge on his enemies, please sign me up as an enemy.
The Plame scandal was ENTIRELY manufactured by the left, to serve the left. Anyone with access to the Internet can get the whole story with a few mouse clicks, but few will bother. Most prefer the legend to the truth.
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