Re: OT: The Republican's Richard Armitage red herring

On Wed, 21 Mar 07 3:20:45 GMT, risky biz <43086772@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In the September 4, 2006 issue of Newsweek magazine, in an article titled "The Man Who Said Too
Much", journalist Michael Isikoff, quoting a "source directly familiar with the conversation who
asked not to be identified because of legal sensitivities", reported that Armitage was the "primary"
source for Robert Novak's piece outing Plame. Armitage apparently mentioned Ms. Wilson's CIA role to
Novak in a July 8, 2003 interview after learning about her status from a State Department memo which
made no reference to her undercover status.[8] Isikoff also reported that Armitage had also told Bob
Woodward of Plame's identity in June 2003, and that special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald investigated
Armitage's role "aggressively", but did not charge Armitage with a crime because he "found no
evidence that Armitage knew of Plame's covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and Woodward".

Armitage knew about Ms. Wilson s C.I.A. role only because of a memorandum that Mr. Libby had
commissioned as part of an effort to rebut criticism of the White House by her husband, Joseph C.
Wilson IV.


But, but, didn't Armitage learn about Plame's status from that State
Department memo?

In the very next sentence it says that he knew about her role because
of a memo by Libby.

Which is it?

At the time of the offhand conversation about the Niger trip, Mr. Armitage was not aware of Ms.
Wilson s undercover status, those familiar with his actions said. The mention of Ms. Wilson was
brief. Mr. Armitage did not believe he used her name, those aware of his actions said.


It appears that nobody even today knows exactly what Plame's status at
the CIA was.

In Plame's testimony in front of the Waxman committee, she said that
even she doesn't know what it was.

Bob Novak himself says that Armitage didn't mention the name Plame,
only that he told Novak that said that Wilson's wife worked for the
CIA.

How did Novak find out the Name of Plame?
Simple.
He looked it up in the Who's Who entry submitted by Joe Wilson.

Apparently, the only people who actually knew that Plame was in fact a
Double Super Secret Agent for the CIA were the White House and their
evil henchmen.

Shhhh.
It's a Conspiracy.

But Mr. Fitzgerald did obtain the indictment of Mr. Libby on charges that he had untruthfully
testified to a grand jury and federal agents when he said he learned about Ms. Wilson s role at the
C.I.A. from reporters rather than from several officials, including Mr. Cheney.

The Plame leak case has not been closed. We will see if Libby is ready to tell the truth if his
appeals fail and if Bush doesn't supply the pardon necessary to protect himself and those around
him.


GMAFB.

The only "truth" that will be accepted by the Moonbats is a Conspiracy
involving the White House that will fulfill their dream of having Karl
Rove frog-marched in an orange jumpsuit.


From the desk of the incomparable Tom Macquire, here is a little
glimpse into the mind of Joe Wilson.

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/footnotes/2005/08/joe_wilson_deni.html

August 19, 2005
Joe Wilson Denial Of Wife's Involvement
An excerpt from "The Politics of Truth" (p. 346) on the question of
whether Valerie Plame was involved in the decision to send Joe Wilson
to Niger:

Quite apart form the matter of her employment, the assertion that
Valerie had played any substantive role in the decision to ask me ot
go to Niger was false on the face of it. Anyone who knows anything
about the government bureaucracy knows that public servants go to
great lengths to avoid nepotism or any appearance of it... Valerie
could not havce stood in the chain of command had she tried to. ***
Cheney might be able to find a way to appoint one of his daughters to
a key decision-making position in the Staet Dept's Middle East Bureau,
as he did; but Valerie could not - and would not if she could - have
had anything to do with the CIA decision to ask me to travel to
Niamey.

[SKIP A Few Paragraphs...

So what of she conveyed a request to me to come to the Agency to talk
about Niger? She played absolutely no part in the decision to send me
there.

Here is a WSJ article from Oct 2003 noting her involvement; more here.

"Absolutely no part in the decision"?

Per Time, he is no longer denying it.
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But that was written in August 2005, so Val and Joe may be back to
denying it again.

Conspiracy theories are fun, aren't they?
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