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Armitage comes out the biggest loser here. By most people he will be remembered now as the leaker that sat back for three years and let others reputations be tarnished, slandered and put through hell because he did not have the courage to come forward when he was at fault.

It is like letting an innocent man go to the gallows and swing for a crime he did not commit, all along the real guilty party watches from the crowd.

Whatever Armitage did in his past and will do in his future will be overshadowed by this. He is a disgrace and should be shunned.

Powell could have come out publicly and he did not. He should be shunned. Powell is a disgrace.

Fitzgerald should be investigated for continuing an investigation for three years, when he knew the guilty leaker when he took over the case in Dec. 2003. Libby, Cheney, Bush and Rove should have NEVER BEEN INTERVIEWED because the guilty party was known. Fitzgerald is toast now. He has forever hurt his reputation and WILL NEVER RECOVER FROM THIS.

Corn and Issy Boy should NEVER BE TRUSTED WITH ANYTHING THEY SAY OR WRITE. May Corn especially burn for this one because he knew early on the it was Armitage, yet he continued to go on TV and blame others.

Finally, all charges agaisnt Scooter should be dropped. If they are not by this judge, they will on appeal. Fitzgerald had NO PROBABLE CAUSE to continue the case, so anything obtained after finding out about Armitage, might be considered as "fruits from a poisonous tree." Inadmissable and tossed as evidence. I hope it would be.

"Whatever Armitage did in his past and will do in his future will be overshadowed by this. He is a disgrace and should be shunned.

Powell could have come out publicly and he did not. He should be shunned. Powell is a disgrace."

Neither one should ever have a job in public service again. I wouldn't trust either one as far as I could throw them.

Let's see if McCain keeps them on his foreign-policy advisory staff.

It was a strikingly effective bit of propaganda while it was in play. "the reporting was so damning that 72% of American’s indicated they believed the White House did it. Close to three-quarters of the United States populace were duped by the media reporting that the Bush Administration had done it in retaliation." http://rayrobison.typepad.com/ray_robison/2006/08/president_bush_.html

Serial liar Wilson with the aid of the press (most especially Corn who started it) persuaded so many that a decent and honorable President had "lied" to them abouta very important matter, when he most certainly had not.

Another decent man was pilloried, indicted and financially ruined (Libby, a brilliant, hard working official).
Rove came out stronger.
Fitz' reputation, like that of Armitage and Powell will be forever tarnished.So will the medias'-Kristof and Pincus should be drummed out of the business.

The NYT which did so much to push the story (like much of the media) now must live with--for them--a disastrous precedent respecting reporters' need to testify in criminal cases.

It's time for the plug to be pulled on this nonsense

This should tarnish Powell, but it was Armitage's responsibility to out himself. And it was Fitz' responsibility (remember that he knew Armitage was the leaker from almost Day 1) to kill the stupid investigation.

I think it would have been bad character to snitch on Armitage, but Powell should have (and IIRC, he did, but not aggressively enough IMHO) downplayed this as hard as he could in general terms.

May Corn especially burn for this one because he knew early on the it was Armitage, yet he continued to go on TV and blame others.

David Corn is a monstrous hypocrite. He is the person who first leveled the charge that the administration outed Plame in order to harm Wilson.

The following two paragraphs are from a piece I did here on FR in 2003 entitled Set up? Anatomy of the contrived Wilson "scandal."

The first charge that the Bush administration "outed" Wilson's wife in order to "punish" him comes in a piece by David Corn in The Nation on July 16 [2003]—a scant two days after Novak's piece appeared. Titled, "A White House Smear," the piece begins with a suitably inflammatory Leftist spin:
"Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security-and break the law-in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?...It sure looks that way, if conservative journalist Bob Novak can be trusted."

David Corn was an integral part of the cabal who ginned this phony story into a scandal. Now he's writing about it in the third person, as though others are responsible for what he, himself, did. And yes, the writer of the posted article above is correct -- Corn is doing this to make dirty money off the vicious deceit he has perpetrated on the American public since 2003.