Armitage On CIA Leak: 'I Screwed Up'

CBS Exclusive Interview ^ | 9/7/06 | None Identified

[leadpenny]

Grow up!

[Sacajaweau]

Look...Valerie was born Valerie Plame. Her name has nothing to do with nothing. Washungton knew her as Plame before she married Joe.

What did the Justice of the Peace say: Do you Valerie X take Joe Wilson to be your co-conspirator till..........And the marriage certificate...A Public record, right!! geez.

[Suzy Quzy]

I NEVER post to you until you bug me so just stop it////NEVER reply to me again...NEVER.

[leadpenny]

Have you no dignity? No class? No shame?

[the Real fifi]

Accprding to the WaPo, Armitage testified to the House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday Sept. 30, 2003, and was supposed to leave for his trip to Pakistan the next day.

Lexis-Nexis then provides the following, from the Press Trust of India, Oct 2, 2003:

In a sudden move, US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage and Assistant Secretary Christina Rocca have put off their visit to Pakistan from Thursday to hold talks with President Pervez Musharraf and other officials on a host of issues, including Indo-Pak ties and resurgence of Taliban on Pakistani soil.

"They are not coming. The visit has been postponed due to scheduling issues," Pakistan Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan told PTI here.

[AmeriBrit]

I think that must be the thread I'm reading right now. I've read it before but it's amazing going back to it how all the dots start to connect and lead to so many of clinton's other crimes. Strange too how they all have their files sealed. Thank goodness for the power of the internet and forums such as this or half the nation would still be in the dark having to rely on the lying MSM as the dimwits do.

BTW: Excellent idea you had about donating Jayna's book to the library, I think I'll follow up on that myself tomorrow a.m. when I'm in town. Thanks for the idea.

[AmeriBrit]

Was Plame her maiden name or did she keep it after her first marriage was dissolved?

[Mike Darancette]

Armitage apologizes to the Wilsons and not Libby?

[Freedom is eternally right]

But the trip wasn't canceled, maybe it was postponed. It would be interesting to find his schedule and find where he did go and on what dates. I refuse to sign up for the NY Times, but maybe you can find this article.

October 6, 2003, Monday By CARLOTTA GALL (NYT); Foreign Desk Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 2, Column 5, 356 words DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Deputy Sec of State Richard L Armitage flies into troubled southern province of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in visit to address threats to government of Pres Hamid Karzai and reconstruction efforts by resurgent Taliban and members of Al Qaeda; says in news conference following meeting with Karzai in Kabul that he expects that United States will spend $2 billion in Afghanistan this year

NY Times Article

Off this current subject, but this is an interesting article from 1996 about Duberstein, Armitage and Powell : General Letdown

[the Real fifi]

The article is behind the wall and I can't get it. You might check the Indian papers around that time , but I don't think it's worth the time.

[nutmeg]

ping!

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[demkicker]

Interesting he doesn't say he let down Scooter or Rove or Cheney....all the ones who have been vilified by the outrageous lies of the old drive by media.

First thing I noticed too, which makes his so-called apology ring hollow. The s.o.b. is a political hack coward and was complicit in ruining Libby's life and doing unforgivable harm to the Bush administration.

[ravingnutter]

Nope...wasn't Hillary and wasn't Cooper. It was Marc Grossman who initiated this whole thing per the article Libby says Powell, Armitage and Grossman were source for Plame Leak - Insight Mag April 3-9, 2006 Issue

Grossman drafted the original memo to Armitage and Powell and made sure it was distributed on AF-1, and Grossman told Libby. Perfect set-up. And check this out...from my files:

The MSM are still pulling the wool over our eyes, the Plamegate fiasco isn't over. The underlying story needs to be published for all to see. First of all, a story I found last week:

Kerry Exploring Cabinet Options

An excerpt:

A dark-horse candidate for defense, some said, is Richard L. Armitage, Bush's second in command at the State Department.

Remember...many of the players involved worked for the Kerry campaign. Could Armitage have sold his soul for a potential Cabinet position?[Note: Sen. Biden also has recently floated his name as a possible Defense Secty. position. See post #9]

Clarice Feldman gives us another tidbit of infom that might explain some things:

If Fitzgerald has known since January 12, 2004 of the name of the leaker, why is he still protecting him, and why is he treating the leaker’s (that is, Armitage’s) source, who is almost certainly Marc Grossman, former Under Secretary of State for political affairs, the man reportedly the source for the first accusations against Libby and Rove, as an impartial witness to the events? In the discovery process it turned out that Grossman was a longtime friend of Wilson’s, dating to their college days at the University of California—Santa Barbara. Is it likely that the famous prosecutor missed this fact?

Source

More on Grossman at Strata-sphere. Seems he traveled with some cohorts of John Kerry's...Rand Beers in particular...and was the first one to point a finger at Libby. He also went to the same college and graduated the same year as {drum roll please} Joe Wilson and also had the same job in a neighboring country. Strato-sphere also has some interesting comments about a Turkey connection. You remember Turkey…the country that balked at allowing our forces passage into northern Iraq?

It's all beginning to make sense now. Nope...this story is not over. Not until someone is indicted for an attempted coup of a sitting President.

[ravingnutter]

Check out my #153...it was Marc Grossman.

[Peach]

It's all beginning to make sense now. Nope...this story is not over. Not until someone is indicted for an attempted coup of a sitting President.

Your research on this has been stellar but I don't think we should hold our breath for anyone to be indicted for attempting a coup on a sitting president.

The malignant limp wristed metrosexual leftists in our society can't even let a movie be aired without having a hissy fit. They certainly won't stand for one of their brethren to be indicted.