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 Dick is covering for the Colin.
The ol' Rovian bait and switch! What's the fuss, I thought the left believed that "Any Dick'll do"?
..I'll guess, your in the medical field
Doogle
Liberals can't get their Dicks straight.
This just confirms what I've always thought about the "great" Colin Powell - a total backstabbing a-hole.
Screw you Colin. Just become a Democrat and get it over with.
Joe Wilson's verasity on anything is cloudy; his wife outed herself to neighbors and friends - all this was known; why did the Plame/Wilson/CIA/Miller Bong Show ever get off the ground? Slow news days or just more BBS?
Yes I have seen this written elsewhere, which begs the question; What to f*ck is up with Fitzgerald?
Why was he even appointed and why did he go thru the motions of that charade and dog and pony show if Justice knew about this all along?
Something stinks here to high heaven.
If the rats win in November it will be due in some part to the inability (or unwillingness) of the Bush administration to rein in their own turncoats, particularly those in Foggy Bottom. Watch the Plame affair redux now die a quick death in the media.
Because the simple fact is, Armtage has NO honor. We now know that he is a man totally lacking in integrity and courage. He is a coward, a skulking coward who willingly allows others to take the blame for his blunders.
This business has done great damage to the Bush administration for years and years, and it has led to the widespread perception of ordinary people that there was no real danger of WMDs in Iraq.
"Bush lied, people died" is still in the minds of many credulous voters, and you can be sure that the MSM is not about to correct the propaganda lies they helped foster.
I agree. You can talk about Rove's cleverness, but this whole business, like most of the media's other lies, has been incredibly damaging. Sure, they have damaged their own reputations, but they have also done much to wreck the Bush administration, which has been pretty much paralyzed for the past two years.
Don't forget, Powell evidently knew this also. I think they had an agenda, don't you.
I suspect that too .. and confirms why I was never in Powell's camp.
Because the simple fact is, Armtage has NO honor. We now know that he is a man totally lacking in integrity and courage. He is a coward, a skulking coward who willingly allows others to take the blame for his blunders.
Powell's past in Washington in-battles was all about using leaks and the like to get an edge. This President Bush tried hard to stop that, with some success, as he had seen how it grossly eroded the ability to command.
Powell and Armitage allowed misinformation to damage the Administration as part of the continuing war over the national direction. They also must have truly hated members of the Administration. Despite my own leanings, I have little doubt some of those members themselves played serious hardball.
Ahahahah! That is clever :~)
As Rush mentioned yesterday, don't expect an apology. The Administration staff's names are smeared and they'll stay smeared.
Libs caught trying to beat the wrong dick?
Where's Joycelyn Elders whenyou need her?
Libs caught trying to beat the wrong dick?
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Easy now !!!!
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