"I met and married this cheeky hot blonde CIA-Press conduit sitting next to me.
She first bared and exposed herself, her CIA background, and the CIA's assets to me on our second date."
Posted on 08/27/2006 7:08:47 AM PDT by jrooney
Michael Isikoff and David Corn have a new book coming out that reveals the inside details of the leak that allowed Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA agent to be uncovered. As widely speculated, the leak came from Richard Armitage, Colin Powell's key deputy, and it came without malicious intent:
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." ...
(Excerpt) Read more at captainsquartersblog.com ...
I still think it was Rove < /S >
No, couldn't have been. It says clearly "As widely speculated, the leak...came without malicious intent:". If Karl Rove had leaked it, it would have been malicious. All motives of Bush supporters are malicious. Come on, you know that!
The fact that Isikoff would write a book with Commie Corn shows just how "fair and balanced" he is.
"He was basically beside himself that he was the guy that f---ed up..."
Well if he was so beside himself why did he do it twice; with Novak AND Woodward?
Between Armitage pulling this stunt and Wilkerson forgetting that it is the President who implements foreign policy it appears it was Powell's team at State that was not ready for prime time. But then again, Powell is apparently unassailable.
I'm not trying to be a jerk or anything, but does anyone have another source on this? It kind of seems to come from no where, and this is really the lynch pin.
why, isn't Armitage Rove's secret "good" twin?!!!!
Actually those bloggers investigating the Plame affair have pieced together for a long time now tht Armitage was the source and a recent FOI request by the AP confirmed Armitage met with one of the reporters on the day it was reported the leak occurred. Armitage's own state calender provided this clue.
Rove MADE Armitage do it. < /S >
Rove MADE Armitage do it. And Bush LET it happen. < /S >
Chrissy Matthews is going look even more foolish than he already does, if that is possible, when this becomes common factual knowledge in the near future.
Well, he has written for Newsweek for a while now. He is fair and balanced, alright. Just to the wrong side.
"Newsweek" and "Fair and Balanced" are oxymorons.
"Newsweek" and "Fair and Balanced" are mutually exclusive.
And so it goes for Michael Isikoff.
I don't know about that. I don't see any button on this machine for Armitage.
-bflr-
Nowhere in all this do I see anyone commenting on the fact that it was not illegal to reveal her name because she has not been a covert agent since 1995.
It is a little noted fact that it was David Corn, not Robert Novak, who was the first reporter to publish Valerie Plame's name.
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