Posted on 08/21/2006 9:12:22 PM PDT by STARWISE
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.
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That is truly sad but most likely true.
Woo-Hoo!
Jason richly deserves a smack down.
I am sure as the parent, I would be responsible to buy superwimpyman Leopold a pair of replacment x-ray glasses, to replace the ones my son embedded in his melon.
LOL!
May never know, but my guess is that it was Powell and State that 1) prevented us from installing an emigre regime in Baghdad in 2003, and 2) prevented us from moving on to Syria.
So true. The blood and dirt on their hands is plainly despicable .. all in the name of shameless personal greed, retribution, politics and power.
I echo both of your words. Sooner or later, they will have to pay the piper. May it be sooner.
I'll drink to that. Who thinks Powell has been in on it all along?
And I bet that YOU are correct!
As far as in on it, I am not sure. I do believe though he was aware of Armitage's disclosure after the fact and failure to declare it publicly to help salvage Libby's reputation. If we are right, it reflects very poorly on Powell. Nothing like letting an innocent man go to the gallows and swing for an offense he did not commit, all along while the guilty party stands in the crowd watching.
Someone made the observation, I think on JOM, that is worth repeating here: This is the very information that the Judge in the case would NOT allow Team Libby to have. Yet media can get it through a FOIA request. The case against Libby should be dropped; Armitage should go public and clear the air, and the media should immediately issue apologies to President Bush, Libby and Rove (yeah right, like that would ever happen).
Ping, since y'all had posted earlier stories on Armitage linkage.
That the Valerie Plame leak actually originated - not from Cheney's office - but from Colon Bowell's office.
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