Jeff Greenfield was on CNN earlier and said that Republicans that are celebrating the disintegration of this Plame case against the Bush Admin..
better think again...because there was ONE paragraph in a WaPO article back in 2003 that said something to the effect that "a top White House official reported that 2 White House people called 6 journalists to tell them Plames' name"...and that this happened BEFORE Armitage told Novak???
I just checked DUmmieland...and they have glommed onto that reports and are doing the snoopy dance that THEY were right all along...!!!!!
I heard Rush mention that yesterday on his program, and he said it was October 2003 (exactly 6 months after we liberated Baghdad). Colin Powell was asked and his answer simply was that he couldn't go into the specifics at [this] that time.
I've always figured it was either Powell (his sudden departure came as no surprise) and Armitage (Powell's right hand man at State -- he spent more time trying to cover up his own tracks even while he was still in the White House, right in front of the Senate hearings he was asked to testify in front of.)
Jeff Greenfield is an horse's arse and doesn't know what he's talking about.
That's interesting because I was just reading over here about potential WaPO sources for 2003 stories on this. The theory was that there was a counter leak campaign, a deep throat feeding information to the WaPo. One of the names that came up was none other than Armitage.
That report sounded bogus- there is no way someone would have to shop a story around to six reporters before getting one to take the bait.
Throwing gossip to reporters is like throwing bread in the air at the beach- you will be up to your eyeballs in gulls before you complete the throw.