From Truthout:
Robert Parry says, "A well placed conservative source has added an important clue to the mystery of the Bush administration's 'outing' of CIA officer Valerie Plame." This source reveals a detail, continues Parry, that, "... undermines the current 'conventional wisdom' among Washington pundits that Armitage acted alone - and innocently - in July 2003 when he disclosed Plame's covert identity to right-wing columnist Robert Novak, who then got Rove to serve as a secondary source confirming the information from Armitage."Seems there are increasing reasons for Plame to be adding Armitage's name to her suit, and decreasing reasons for conservatives to try to spin this thing as over. Check it out.
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So. Rove told Armitage to tell Novak about Plame. Armitage did, but didn't tell Novak that the info came from Rove. Then Novak called Rove to get confirmation of the info. And Rove said "Oh, yeah, I've been hearing that same thing, too."
Let's keep Gitmo open for a while longer. We have a few more "terrorists" that we need information from.
Schyeah, really.
WHY ARE THESE PEOPLE STILL IN WASHINGTON??
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I still want to know who's job it was to de-classify the document citing Plame and which came out one day after the Novak article. Even if it was a red herring (which I don't think it was), whoever did it has knowledge of the purpose of the goal.
Second, putting all else aside, even if Rove did "only" confirm the information for Novak - that's the same as divulging the information. He could just as easily have said, "I know nothing about that." THAT would be the right answer. Or, if he was a good man he might have said, "I don't know but if that is true then it shouldn't be published because it would be giving the enemy information that we shouldn't give them."
Third, and my favorite point because it's so obscure, Novak called Wilson an "asshole". From where did he get THAT leak? The Armitage? Er. Rove? Perhaps. Cheney? I can see that without using any imagination whatsoever.
The whole perception that Wilson was an asshole and was sent by Plame is the stream I like to follow.
Miss P.
This is the act of treason anywhichway you spin it, dice it, cut it or toss it. The Paramilitary CIA officiers feel that way. WE should too.
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