Armitage source of Plame leak??? Deafeningly silent bombshell?

[Mugsy]

I don't know what to make of this. I heard only sideways comments regarding this last week, regarding the possibility Powell's CoS, Richard Armitage, may have inadvertently been Novackula's source on the identity of Valery Plame, and the lack of a reaction in the bloggosphere has me scratching my head. Either, it's a bombshell no one wants to acknowledge, or it's total nonsense not worth responding too. But Armitage himself seems genuinely concerned.

The most notorious pseudo-Democrat, Vanity Fair's Christopher Hitchens, had a story in Slate yesterday cheering his "vindication" after years of defending George Bush and disparaging the Plame investigation (God only knows why Left-leaning mags like Slate and Vanity Fair continue to call him a Democrat and give him space on their pages (a pro-Iraq-war hawk that makes Lieberman look like Barney Frank, Hitchens is as much a Democrat as I am Karl Rove's love-child).

So what is the story here? I know there's more too it, and the fact regarding the way the Bush Administration *used* this information to discredit Wilson and justify their war can not be disputed, but the deafening silence around here on the subject bothers me.

[MADem]

1. What more is there to say, really?

Reporters have more than one source. Good ones, or OLD School ones, do, anyway.

Tweety was told by ROVE that Valerie was fair game. Not by Armitage. Tweety then picked up the phone and told Joe Wilson.

The original leak means nothing without the attack that accompanies it--the attack on Plame came from the WH.

[DURHAM D]

2. That darked haired creepy little guy (wears glasses) who appears

on Countdown all of the time was on there the other night and basically said the attack on Wilson was justified because he was going around "pretending that he worked for the State Department".

I hate that guy and I don't understand why KO has him on alllll of the time. I think he is a political writer for Newsweek or Time. I can't remember his name because I don't want to. Right click - delete the creepy little glasses wearing rodent.

[Chiyo-chichi]

4. Mike Allen, Time Magazine?

He's a zombie & he's on ALL the MSNBC shows.

[DURHAM D]

7. No - isn't Allen bald ? eom

[Chiyo-chichi]

13. You're right.

And I don't know that KO has him on. He is usually on Hardball, I guess.

[magellan]

12. You mean Michael Isikoff, Newsweek?

Agreed. I saw his name on this story and I've been extremely skeptical of it since, even without all the loose ends it leaves dangling.

Never mind Armitage signed on to a couple of PNAC's letters in the late 90s, including the infamous letter to Clinton urging him to attack Iraq. No one who has any history with PNAC and the neocons is credible as far as I'm concerned.

[oneighty]

3. Armitage

Phony and fake US Navy SEAL says it all.

The truth is not in such people.

180

[AValdoux]

5. Outing Armitage...

...vindicates Rove. The Libby trial will a "legal technicality driven by partisan politics".

Case closed.


AValdoux

[Warpy]

6. Who told ARMITAGE???

Keep asking that question.

The fingers still point to the White House. He had no way of knowing Plame's real job nor did he have any way of knowing about her front company.

Somebody told HIM. Keep making that point.

[DURHAM D]

8. And we wonder why the CIA and the Pentagon does not

(never has) been able to trust the State Department. And, why the State Department does not trust the spooks.

[Mugsy]

9. Considered that. But raises other questions.

Despite a few comments, for the most part, Amitage has been surprisingly anti-NeoCon, so the question as to "why" anyone would supply him with the information as a means of inflicting damage on Plame while defending the Bush WH doesn't make any sense.

It would be like using a butter-knife to cut a loaf of bread... it may work... it may not, but a mess is guaranteed. So why bother?

[H2O Man]

10. It will soon

be seen as an important part of the advances in the civil case. It may have Chris Hitchens happy at this moment. But it will not have Rove or Cheney happy. But you are correct in that the significance is not yet understood by the general public.

[librechik]

11. wake me up when the fat lady sings

I'm sick of their jury poisoning crapola.

And I don't believe Armitage is the end of the story--but I do believe he is a "nice enough guy" to fall on his sword for the cause--especially if there are no punishments involved in a "silly booboo."