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[Snip]In an interview to air Sunday on CBS-TV's "60 Minutes" program, [Pakistani President Gen. Pervez] Musharraf said that after the [September 11, 2001] attacks, Richard Armitage, then deputy secretary of state, told Pakistan's intelligence director that the United States would bomb his country if it didn't help fight terrorists. He said that Armitage had told him, "Be prepared to go back to the Stone Age." Armitage has disputed the language attributed to him but did not deny the message was a strong one. Asked about the report, Bush said, "The first I heard of this is when I read it...

THE STATE DEPARTMENT PLOT THICKENS [John Podhoretz] Time Magazine has a new story about the revelation of Valerie Plame's name -- a story that, despite Time's own bizarre spin, reinforces the claim that Karl Rove and others learned that Joseph Wilson was married to a CIA operative from the media. "As the investigation tightens into the leak of the identity of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, sources tell TIME some White House officials may have learned she was married to former ambassador Joseph Wilson weeks before his July 6, 2003, Op-Ed piece criticizing the Administration," writes Massimo Calabresi. Later, he...