The Man Who Said Too Much [Armitage responsible for Plame leak]

originally posted here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1990900

pardon my repost, but i feel this is very important.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14533384/site/newsweek/

Sept. 4, 2006 issue - In the early morning of Oct. 1, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell received an urgent phone call from his No. 2 at the State Department. Richard Armitage was clearly agitated. As recounted in a new book, "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War," Armitage had been at home reading the newspaper and had come across a column by journalist Robert Novak. Months earlier, Novak had caused a huge stir when he revealed that Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq-war critic Joseph Wilson, was a CIA officer. Ever since, Washington had been trying to find out who leaked the information to Novak. The columnist himself had kept quiet. But now, in a second column, Novak provided a tantalizing clue: his primary source, he wrote, was a "senior administration official" who was "not a partisan gunslinger." Armitage was shaken. After reading the column, he knew immediately who the leaker was. On the phone with Powell that morning, Armitage was "in deep distress," says a source directly familiar with the conversation who asked not to be identified because of legal sensitivities. "I'm sure he's talking about me." <more>

Unless it's already been posted here (I don't think it has).

This is

HUGE.

No "hugh" jokes, please.

Fitzgerald's investigation may have just opened a new front here.

wonder who he's taking the fall for


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1990745

Even if they'll never nail a soul for it, just because Armitage (assuming this is correct) made a massive, massive mistake, that did not make it legal for Rove and Libby to shop the information around prior to formal declassification. To say the least. And I'll keep it at the least until I see more than vapors.

vapors.????

What sort of hack journalist writes this sort of soap-opera plot, and what sort of hack editor publishes it?

"Omigosh! I just learned from the newspaper that I am the leaker! I'm shocked! I really had no idea!"

:puke:

How can Armitage have had a covert career himself, AND also has the reputation of having a BIG mouth? Why pick a guy who, allegedly, has a big mouth for covert activity? I can think of two possible answers. First, that Armitage REALLY has a big mouth and someone leaked information to Armitage knowing that he would leak it eventually to the necessary parties; or second, that Armitage is the next Oliver North and he's willing to take a hit for the team.

for an accepted reason, but they get away with it time and time again. On a local level, when I would finally find something that I could pin on someone, I would confront them with it only to watch them go into Gomer mode. Gomer mode is sort of like when a dog rolls over and shows his soft underbelly. They play a submissive role, and damn it, it always works. Well, it worked on me primarily because I had no where else to go to turn the son of a bitch in. But the big question is, why is Fitz giving him a free pass? Unless the person who spilled it to Armitage was another anti-neocon "moderate" like Powell?

RayGun regime - can't find that link now, but when I do, I'll post it.

this isn't the link I remember - but it may have to do:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/Iran_Contra_Israel_CA.html

excerpt:

The campaign for world economic and political domination gathered momentum during the final years of the Cold War, including the decade-long Iran-lraq War of the 1980s (in which the United States sold arms to both sides) and the "clandestine" wars against Nicaragua's Sandinista Government and the revolutionary movements in El Salvador, Guatemala Angola, South Africa and elsewhere. What became known as the IranContra scandal-clandestine U.S. arms sales to Iran, facilitated by Israeli intelligence guidance, with the huge profits used to fund the terrorist war of the contras against the revolutionary government of Nicaragua-was a major part of these operations. Both ends of the operation were ostensibly prohibited by U.S. Iaw and the secret sales to Iraq were not even part of the publicly known equation.
The psychological operations, or "psyops" apparatus, institutionalized today, which have virtually eliminated public media debate while severely damaging civil and constitutional rights, began in earnest during the Reagan and Bush I administrations. And the forces shaping administration policies and consequently government propaganda, include familiar faces from those years: Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Richard Armitage, Eliot Abrams and Michael Ledeen, among many others.

here as a juicy gossiper just don't match. We're being conned again.

There is soo much s*** raining down on Cheney, this, in addition to Halliburton, War Crimes w/Rumsfeld,would certainly land them both in Gucci stripes. Cheney is trying to close any perceived cracks in the door that would open him up to investigations of conspiracy to commit High Crimes and Misdemeanors.

He must have figured that his job is done anyways because the PNAC stooges are about to lose power and his services will no longer be desired by the next crew. Might as well as make a strategy move, a la Risk.

Dead Men Walking?

Watch, $$$ to OOO..Armitage takes the fall for #2, then suffers a fatal heart attack and voila, they're all playing poker at some 100 room swank (rooming house) hotel on a deserted island, waiting for their surgery to heal until the scandal blows over.

In the game, players will make a strategic move which may not make sense at the time, but may prove to be a good gamble and put them in a better vantage point -- all of it depending on what the other player does on the next play.

mixing in a slip of levity.

:toast:

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

January 26, 1998



The Honorable William J. Clinton
President of the United States
Washington, DC


Dear Mr. President:

We are writing you because we are convinced that current American policy toward Iraq is not succeeding, and that we may soon face a threat in the Middle East more serious than any we have known since the end of the Cold War. In your upcoming State of the Union Address, you have an opportunity to chart a clear and determined course for meeting this threat. We urge you to seize that opportunity, and to enunciate a new strategy that would secure the interests of the U.S. and our friends and allies around the world. That strategy should aim, above all, at the removal of Saddam Hussein’s regime from power. We stand ready to offer our full support in this difficult but necessary endeavor.

<snipping to signatures>

Elliott Abrams    Richard L. Armitage    William J. Bennett

Jeffrey Bergner    John Bolton    Paula Dobriansky

Francis Fukuyama    Robert Kagan    Zalmay Khalilzad

William Kristol    Richard Perle    Peter W. Rodman

Donald Rumsfeld    William Schneider, Jr.    Vin Weber

Paul Wolfowitz    R. James Woolsey    Robert B. Zoellick

presidency. BushI, Cheney and their Motley Crew are responsible for the PNAC Agreement, even though 41 and #2 names are conveniently absent from the signing.

And I love the idea of Isikoff having egg on his RW-enabler face!

"MR. NOVAK: I told Mr. Isikoff, the investigator—he’s a very good investigative reporter, by the way—but I told him that I do not identify my sources on any subject if they’re on a confidential basis until they identify themselves. I don’t say that somebody was or wasn’t. I’m going to say one thing, though, I haven’t said before. And that is that I believe that the time has way passed for my source to identify himself." http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14452115/page/7/

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story is bullcrap to clear the White House.

Just my two cents.

This mofo wakes up every day thanking his lucky stars that he is no longer facing federal prison. Today there's another sucker that will take the fall for him.