Posted on 08/21/2006 5:26:32 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Calendars show Armitage met reporter
By MATT APUZZO and JOHN SOLOMON, Associated Press Writers 11 minutes ago
Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Armitage's official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show a one-hour meeting marked "private appointment" with Woodward on June 13, 2003.
Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has investigated whether Bush administration officials intentionally revealed Plame's identity as a one-time CIA covert operative to punish her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for criticizing the administration's march to war with Iraq.
When contacted at home Monday night, Woodward declined to discuss his meeting with Armitage or the identity of his source in the CIA leak case. Instead, he referred to his statement last year that he had a "casual and offhand" discussion about Plame with an unidentified administration official in mid-June 2003.
A person familiar with the information prosecutors have gathered, who spoke only on condition of anonymity because the material remains sealed, said Woodward's meeting with the confidential source was June 13, 2003.
The calendar released to the AP is the first confirmation that Woodward and Armitage met during the key time in the CIA leak case that was the focus of Fitzgerald's probe.
The identity of Woodward's source remains one of the big mysteries in the case because the Post reporter is the first member of the news media known to have discussed Plame's CIA employment with an administration official.
Woodward's former Post editor, Ben Bradlee, has speculated publicly that Armitage was the reporter's "likely source."
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To a philosopher all news, as it is called, is gossip, and they who edit it and read it are old women over their tea.
—Henry David Thoreau
I doubt if anything of consequence was said about Valerie. The article said the main conversation was about Pakistan.
This article is ridiculous. All those words and they don't give us a yes or no on a Novak meeting?
Attempting to give a damn...
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Great tagline, lol.
I don't think anyone is shocked that this came out of the State Dept.
What happened?
Did another book deal fall through so the infamous duo have to shop for another and need their names on the front page again to help them snag one?
It's time someone slapped irons on their wrists for the damage they've contributed to the stability of this country.
"...who spoke only on condition of anonymity..."
It's a rare article that doesn't have that phrase in it, LOL!
Lying reporters. The Government was relying on intelligence from the Brits, and Wilson's conclusion was neither solicited nor reliable.
A source who spoke only on condition of anonymity revealed that Catherine Zeta-Jones, Monica Bellucci, Salma Hayek, and Anna Kournikova all want me.
Since Richard Armitage is the principal Foreign Policy Advisor to the Presidential Campaign of Sen. John McCain, I can take some amusement in this bit of "news".
Oh... Richard Armitage...
Nevermind.
ROTFL! Good one!
Other events of June 13, 2003 :
JUNE 13, 2003 : (GREG THIELMAN, FORMER STATE DEPT DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC, PROLIFERATION AND MILITARY ISSUES OFFICE IN THE BUREAU OF INTELLIGENCE AND RESEARCH, COMPLAINS ABOUT COLIN POWELL'S FEBRUARY 5, 2003 UN PRESENTATION ON PBS's 'NOW WITH BILL MOYERS' SHOW - see JOE WILSON) - October 16, 2003 CyberAlert, via "60 Minutes II Re-Runs Ex-Official’s Attack on Powell’s UN Case," by Brent Baker, Media Research Center , 2-5-04
JUNE 13, 2003 : (BRITISH STILL STAND BY THEIR CLAIM THEY HAVE INTEL ON IRAQ SEEKING TO BUY URANIUM FROM AFRICA) The British included their information in a public statement on Sept. 24, 2002, that said Iraq "sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." The British have stood by their statements. - "White House Says Bush Had More Evidence Iraq Sought Uranium in Africa," by John J. Lumpkin, AP , 6/13/03
JUNE 13, 2003 : (REPORT : OFFICIALS SAY IT WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER TO LEAVE BRITISH INTEL OUT OF THE SOTU SPEECH EVEN THOUGH THE INTEL CHECKED OUT) In retrospect, officials said, it would have been better to have left the [British] uranium claim out of the president's speech, even though the speech was fact-checked by the CIA and other agencies. - "White House Says Bush Had More Evidence Iraq Sought Uranium in Africa," by John J. Lumpkin, AP , 6/13/03
And a couple days later Joe Wilson's group MOVEON.ORG starts a new website:
JUNE 15, 2003 : (MOVEON.ORG CREATES WEB SITE MISLEADER.ORG) Organization: EliPariser, Registrant ; 452W57thSt , NewYork ,:NY , 10019, US , 646/326-6333; Email:eli.pariser@moveon.org - sourcec: whois.publicinterestregistry.net*
The Mislead is a new project of the increasingly influential liberal organization MoveOn.org, which claims to reach more than two million activists and recently received a donation of up to $5 million from philanthropist George Soros, who is working to prevent President Bush's re-election.
The Daily Mislead claims that it provides "an accurate daily chronicle for journalists of misrepresentations, distortions and downright misleading statements by President Bush and the Bush Administration," but in most cases since its first issue on Sept. 15, it has done nothing of the kind. Instead, despite numerous examples of actual deception by the Bush administration, the Mislead has generally presented a series of partisan accusations of dishonesty based on nothing more than political disagreement. Like too many participants in the media bias debate, MoveOn is churning out a series of analyses designed to support a preconceived agenda--whether the facts fit the case or not.- "Who's Lying Now?," Opinion Journal via http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1037366/posts
"A source who spoke only on condition of anonymity revealed that Catherine Zeta-Jones, Monica Bellucci, Salma Hayek, and Anna Kournikova all want me."
Sorry 'puzz, ever since that trip to Utah, I been happily married to all four of 'em, but I'll tell 'em you said hey, soon as they git back from washin' ma truck...
I can imagine the conversation:
Woodward: "By the way, who was the genius working in the White House who decided to send that dingbat to Niger?
Armitage: "WE didn't send him! His WIFE did!"
Woodward: "Oh."
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