i thought the husband leaked it in the Who's Who blurb...
Posted on 04/13/2018 12:38:24 PM PDT by cotton1706
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage acknowledged Thursday that he was the source who first revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak back in 2003, touching off a federal investigation. Armitage told the CBS Evening News that he did so inadvertently.
"I feel terrible," Armitage said. "Every day, I think, I let down the president. I let down the secretary of state. I let down my department, my family, and I also let down Mr. and Mrs. Wilson."
In a column published on July 14, 2003, Novak, citing two senior administration officials, noted that Plame was a CIA operative. The column was primarily about Plame's husband, Joe Wilson, a former career diplomat and critic of the intelligence underlying the invasion of Iraq.
Novak has never revealed the original source of the information about Plame. However, he has confirmed that President Bush's chief political strategist, Karl Rove, confirmed the information and was the second source cited in the column.
Novak has said he would not reveal the identity of the original source unless the source came forward. However, he said Fitzgerald learned who the source was independently.
Last month, sources told CNN that Armitage had revealed Plame's role at the CIA in a casual conversation with Novak.
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Plame and Stormy: Birds of a feather.
i thought the husband leaked it in the Who's Who blurb...
Libby never served time in prison. GWB commuted that part of his sentence. Libby did pay a huge fine.
Yes, Wilson was very vocal about it in Washington conversations. The investigation was phony from Day One.
They wanted Libby to lie against Cheney.
They want Cohen to lie against Trump.
Libby and Cohen are strictly victimized traps for bigger fish.
Rule of law says it misses the good old days.
She was not deep cover. She was nominal cover, meaning her story was a thin vener and would not stand harsh scrutiny.
Besides she broke her own cover, or her husband did, before this.
Every day she drove down GW Parkway, pulled into Langley, and parked in the CIA HQ lot. If she were “undercover,” then she sucked real bad at it.
Ummmm, no.
Yup. When you are under cover you are not anywhere near the HQ building.
He did. He blew her nominal (ie thin) cover.
Wikipedia’s facts were as I remembered them.
I did not see evidence of a political bias in the information.
There are other sources as well that coould have been used.
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