Posted on 08/31/2006 7:57:26 AM PDT by IrishMike
Wouldn't you know, but the critics of the Bush administration were right. A Richard was indeed at the heart of the Valerie Plame episode. Only, it wasn't Richard Cheney. Instead, we now know it was Richard Armitage, Secretary of State Powell's right-hand man until they both left Foggy Bottom early in Mr. Bush's second term. The disclosure, which came after Mr. Armitage's official calendar from 2003 was released to the Associated Press in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, answers one big question that has spurred incessant speculation since 2003. The news raises plenty of other questions, however. For example, where has Mr. Armitage been all this time? Why didn't he speak up when the controversy over the leak first surfaced? Or when Patrick Fitzgerald launched his grand jury investigation? Or when Mr. Fitzgerald indicted Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, in connection with the case? Or when Ms. Plame and her husband, Joseph Wilson, filed their civil suit against Messrs. Libby and Cheney and Karl Rove? The instinct for self-preservation is understandable, even enshrined in the Fifth Amendment, but Mr. Armitage's inaction is appalling in light of the trouble he could have spared so many people had he come forward sooner. Even though investigators appear to have known about his involvement as early as autumn 2003, Mr. Armitage stood silently by while the president's critics sullied the good names of Messrs. Cheney, Libby and Rove. At least now it will be possible to dispense with all the conspiracy theories, since Mr. Armitage is certainly not part of the neoconservative cabal at the White House that the left has blamed for retaliating against Mr. Plame after her husband took to the pages of The New York Times to oppose the war in Iraq.
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The moral is, don't be a dick, Dick!
Rove used the Force to have power over weaker (i.e., liberal) minds.
THEN when you're exposed - say it's old news. Copyright - BJ Clinton
Very true and funny.
Fitzgerald was appointed because Democrats insisted on such an appointment, believing their own propaganda, certain they would succeed in destroying Karl Rove and seriously wounding President Bush, who happens unfortunately to have inherited to some degree his father's tendency to "make nice" with his political adversaries, usually to no good effect.
But perhaps this brouhaha will yet redound to the dishonoring of the Dems. I'm a bit surprised that the AP would reveal what they learned from their FOI request. Perhaps they got trapped, and couldn't avoid it.
Be that as it may - R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. puts a more humorous light on the subject of Ms. Plame and her conniving spouse: From the American Spectator:
Ms. Valerie Plame's persecution complex continues to make headlines. On July 13 the willowy CIA operative, who in recent years has apparently been CIA station chief at the Tysons Corner shopping center in northern Virginia, filed a lawsuit against Vice President Dick Cheney and his aides for blowing her cover and making it impossible for her to enter Bloomingdale's unidentified. Ms. Plame has been particularly good as photographing members of the Arab diplomatic corps as they shopped for picnic lunches at Victoria's Secret. Unfortunately, since the Bush administration identified her as an operative in an effort to discredit her husband, the handsome perjurer Ambassador Joseph Wilson, she has not dared to venture from her Georgetown purlieus even for a Vanity Fair photo op. The consequence has been an incalculable loss to our national security and a grievous inconvenience to Mr. Wilson, who can no longer get a pedicure or a leg waxing without attracting public notice.
F*** you, pal, I just blew coffee all over my keyboard and monitor! :)
The Brooks Brothers' store at Tysons Corner Galleria saved my business twice in six years after the airlines lost my luggage...
Bush should pardon Libby just before Christmas and Libby ought to be informed now
I resurrected this thread instead of starting another, but on Meet the Press this morning, Russert was STILL trying to pin this on Cheney. Cheney wanted to smack him, you could just tell. THEY'RE STILL riding this dead horse. UNBELIEVABLE.
liberal scum,, may they all die
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