Armitage, a well-known gossip who loves to dish and receive juicy tidbits about Washington characters, apparently hadn't thought through the possible implications of telling Novak about Plame's identity. "I'm afraid I may be the guy that caused this whole thing," he later told Carl Ford Jr., State's intelligence chief. Ford says Armitage admitted to him that he had "slipped up" and told Novak more than he should have. "He was basically beside himself that he was the guy that f---ed up. My sense from Rich is that it was just chitchat," Ford recalls in "Hubris," to be published next week by Crown and co-written by the author of this article and David Corn, Washington editor of The Nation magazine.
Firedoglake, ostensibly the "go-to blog for all matters Plame," has nothing about this.
This story seems like a distraction from a couple of "liberal" but too-deeply-inside-Washington journalists who want to "get a scoop" and "have a hot book" so are helping Rove and Cheney.
As for the right or wrong of it, sounds like Armitage f-up and tried to come clean, while Cheney/Rove f-ed up and tried to cover it up.
You don't go to prison for the former.
It would be nice to have some perspective from the "go-to blog," which has been pretty chatty, breezy, and lightweight lately.
today on meet the press novak again refused to divulge or confirm his source, but added, he thought it was way past time for the source to reveal them self.
pre 911 plame was head of the task for looking for wmd in iraq. i cant wait til theyre all lined up against a wall and shot for treason. we still do that, right? we are in a war after all. no time for niceties.
Well, she didn't do a very good job, now did she? If she had truely cared about our dear leader's legacy, she would have found a way to find WMDs in Iraq. We have some perfectly good binary nerve gas munitions in the US that are being incinerated when they could have been hidden in one of Saddam's palaces. Such a waste.
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- bill 8-27-2006 5:35 pm
Firedoglake, ostensibly the "go-to blog for all matters Plame," has nothing about this.
This story seems like a distraction from a couple of "liberal" but too-deeply-inside-Washington journalists who want to "get a scoop" and "have a hot book" so are helping Rove and Cheney.
As for the right or wrong of it, sounds like Armitage f-up and tried to come clean, while Cheney/Rove f-ed up and tried to cover it up.
You don't go to prison for the former.
It would be nice to have some perspective from the "go-to blog," which has been pretty chatty, breezy, and lightweight lately.
- tom moody 8-27-2006 7:06 pm
today on meet the press novak again refused to divulge or confirm his source, but added, he thought it was way past time for the source to reveal them self.
- bill 8-27-2006 7:27 pm
pre 911 plame was head of the task for looking for wmd in iraq. i cant wait til theyre all lined up against a wall and shot for treason. we still do that, right? we are in a war after all. no time for niceties.
- dave 9-06-2006 3:47 pm
Well, she didn't do a very good job, now did she? If she had truely cared about our dear leader's legacy, she would have found a way to find WMDs in Iraq. We have some perfectly good binary nerve gas munitions in the US that are being incinerated when they could have been hidden in one of Saddam's palaces. Such a waste.
- mark 9-06-2006 7:53 pm