Armitage Outed Plame, So Says Associate

[Flying Headbutt]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/28/AR2006082801278.html

The leak of information about an undercover CIA employee that provoked a special prosecutor's investigation of senior White House officials came from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, according to a former Armitage colleague at the department.

Armitage told newspaper columnist Robert D. Novak in the summer of 2003 that Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the Iraq war, worked for the CIA, the colleague said. In October of that year, Armitage admitted to senior State Department officials that he had made the remark, which was based on a classified report he had read.

 

[hondo]

Here's a more concise account of what happened, by a very smart and very good writer:

http://www.slate.com/id/2148555

I notice how everyone who wanted Libby and Rove's head for allegedly outing some CIA flunkie who was a mere desk jockey -- and someone who had already been outed -- is strangly silent on this revelation.

 

[zeke12]

how about we wait for a story to hit tomorrow's papers before we make any comments about anyone being, "Strangely silent," eh, hondo?

Jeebus.

 

[hondo]

how about we wait for a story to hit tomorrow's papers before we make any comments about anyone being, "Strangely silent," eh, hondo?

Jeebus.

Uhhh.. it's been in the news cycle for two days now, going on three.

 

[Armchair_QB]

Sure like to hear Fitzgerald's explanation for going through with this dog and pony show when he had the information on Armitage before Libby was indicted.

Anything to take down a guy you don't like I guess. Wonder when Joe Wilson is going to apologize to Rove.

 

[zeke12]

Headbutt's story is from today.

First I'd heard of anything was on the radio this afternoon, and it was speculative.

 

[JR]

Here's a more concise account of what happened, by a very smart and very good writer:

http://www.slate.com/id/2148555

I notice how everyone who wanted Libby and Rove's head for allegedly outing some CIA flunkie who was a mere desk jockey -- and someone who had already been outed -- is strangly silent on this revelation.

Ah, yes, Christopher Hitchens. He with no axe to grind. He probably thinks the WMD's actually existed.

And Hondo, "CIA flunkie" speaks volumes about your, um, rather limited worldview.

 

[hondo]

Here's a more concise account of what happened, by a very smart and very good writer:

http://www.slate.com/id/2148555

I notice how everyone who wanted Libby and Rove's head for allegedly outing some CIA flunkie who was a mere desk jockey -- and someone who had already been outed -- is strangly silent on this revelation.

Ah, yes, Christopher Hitchens. He with no axe to grind. He probably thinks the WMD's actually existed.

And Hondo, "CIA flunkie" speaks volumes about your, um, rather limited worldview.

Here's a more concise account of what happened, by a very smart and very good writer:

http://www.slate.com/id/2148555

I notice how everyone who wanted Libby and Rove's head for allegedly outing some CIA flunkie who was a mere desk jockey -- and someone who had already been outed -- is strangly silent on this revelation.

Ah, yes, Christopher Hitchens. He with no axe to grind. He probably thinks the WMD's actually existed.

And Hondo, "CIA flunkie" speaks volumes about your, um, rather limited worldview.

Oh, please. The media and some of you people act like Joe and Valerie Plame were having regular meetings in darkened East Berlin alleys to get the microfilm of the Soviets' latest weapons system, then jetting to the Far East to help overthrow a dictator. She was a bureaucrat. He made sure the embassies were stocked with paper clips and toilet paper.

 

[Oz]

I notice how everyone who wanted Libby and Rove's head for allegedly outing some CIA flunkie who was a mere desk jockey -- and someone who had already been outed -- is strangly silent on this revelation.

Had it been Democrats in office, tell me you would be screaming treason.

And it doesn't matter if she was a "CIA flunkie who was a mere desk jockey." The fact that she was a spy, that blew years and years and years of work. Bottom line, she was still a spy.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

That's such an incredible load of bull**** it's hard to know where to begin.
Plame was a covert agent. Her operation -- which monitored WMD's in Iran, BTW -- also was covert. Both those operations were blown, maybe accidentally by Armitage, but later on by Rove and Libby, who almost assuredly lied about it to Fitzgerald. hondo, I have a little experiment for you. Please tell me now who the Director Of Operations is for the CIA. That person works at a desk in Langley.
Do you know why you can't tell me? Because you go to the federal pen for 25 years if you do, that's why. This was likely the fallback position all along -- I certainly believe Novak, god knows -- and what Rove and Libby did, they did for payback.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Interesting to watch Fenian twist into fun balloon-animal shapes trying to hold together the Daily Kos narrative on this one.

There's just no there there. Time to, uh, move on. Go help Nancy Pelosi pick out the drapes for the Speaker of the House office she think she's be occupying in January.

(Funny how on one part of the board folks are ready to take to the streets to protect the Barry Bonds grand jury leaker ... here, not so much love.)

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

Not a single bit of substance.
How do you keep your keyboard on the table?

 

[Oz]

(Funny how on one part of the board folks are ready to take to the streets to protect the Barry Bonds grand jury leaker ... here, not so much love.)

One is getting the scoop on an MLB story that's unraveling in a court case, which papers do all the time. The other is an act of national treason. Big difference.

 

[HejiraHenry]

How do you keep your keyboard on the table?

Gravity. Not just a good idea, it's the law.

 

[Football_Bat]

So, now that Valerie Plame is outed and Brewster Jennings has been exposed, who's our intel source in Iran now?

He has to be called "Slider" because "Curveball" is already taken.

 

[hondo]

Not a single bit of substance.
How do you keep your keyboard on the table?

No, there was a lot of substance...just not anything in lockstep with your take on the issue, therefore, you say there's no substance.
Fenian's definition of substance: Anything anyone says that is in agreement with everything I say.

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

Not a single bit of substance.
How do you keep your keyboard on the table?

No, there was a lot of substance...just not anything in lockstep with your take on the issue, therefore, you say there's no substance.
Fenian's definition of substance: Anything anyone says that is in agreement with everything I say.

Don't forget - if you don't agree with him you are making the baby Jesus cry.

I think it would be an understatement to say that Fenian holds himself in very high regard.

 

[zeke12]

As opposed to someone who thinks the world might be interested in his BLOG!

 

[Evil Bastard (aka Chris_L)]

As opposed to someone who thinks the world might be interested in his BLOG!

The world? No.

But I do enjoy jotting down my thoughts and opinions and the blog gives me a place to share them. I get about 500 visitors a day - so its not like I'm yelling at the ocean. I have a group of people who are regular visitors and who may not agree with what I write but enjoy the way in which I present it.

You too must think others are interested in your thoughts and opinions - otherwise you wouldn't be posting here. I find it a bit hypocritical for you to castigate me for having a blog when you are basically doing the same thing here. Then again hypocrisy seems second nature to some of you - so I'm not surprised in the least.

 

[Fenian_Bastard]

I think it would be an understatement to say that the moon somehow has passed once again into the House of Intellectual Insecurity.