‘Armitage said there was no ill-intent on his part.’
Bullshit. He did Powells bidding, and it was too undermine the Administration that rejected his point of view.
The fact Powell lied to the media at least twice on this topic is also something many don’t know, or have forgotten.
I’ll never forgive either Armitage or Colin Powell, each of whom could have stopped that witch hunt with a single press conference.
That they choose not to do so speaks volumes about the character of BOTH Powell and Armitage.
From http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1725871/posts :
Finally, there’s the perplexing case of Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson. According to dozens of media reports, Valerie Plame was introduced to Joe Wilson by Brent Scowcroft at an ATC function. Shortly thereafter, the pair was invited to a Turkish Embassy function. Quickly after that, Plame’s CIA WMD operation (Brewster Jennings) was exposed by then Under Secretary of State, Richard Armitage. Coincidently, Dickerson was in close proximity to Plame & Wilson in the 1999-2002 timeframe and the Pentagon and US State Department. It seems likely that only a Turkish operative located somewhere in the US government/intelligence community would have uncovered that information and disclosed it to the Turks and their US sympathizers. Was it Wilson? Dickerson? Armitage?