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Audacity of Truth
Big Government- Hot Air
- Michelle Malkin
- Wheeling & dealing: Snowe pow-wows with Obama; Landrieu, Schumer, Daschle behind the scenes
- Saturday in the Senate: Cash for Cloture; Reid gets 60; Update: 8:15pm Eastern cloture vote – 60-39; Voinovich absent; Dems invoke Teddy Kennedy; Reid: “Ted would be happy.”
- Another day, another Berkeley tantrum
- Jake Tapper
- Lynn Sweet
Was Armitage not telling the whole story?
Interesting info via Drudge:
“When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state’s interviews obscured what he really did,” Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release.
Novak, attempting to set the record straight, writes: “First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he ‘thought’ might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.”
Novak slams Armitage for holding back all this time.
Armitage’s silence for “two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Rove of being my primary source,” Novak explains.
“When Armitage now says he was mute because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s request, that does not explain his silent three months between his claimed first realization that he was the source and Fitzgerald’s appointment on Dec. 30. Armitage’s tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive.”
Over to you, Mr. Armitage …
Update: Here’s Novak’s column.
Prior:
- Richard Armitage: “I screwed up”
- The pLame question has been answered, to everyone but the far left … and the NYT
- Put the blame on Plame – her husband, that is
- Joe Wilson: Liar liar, pants on fire – VIDEO
- Speculation: Armitage was the Plame ‘leaker’ and it was done so without malicious intent
- Former WaPo exec. editor Ben Bradlee: Woodward’s source may be Armitage
- Plamegate: Woodward testifies
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What stood out to me was this:
Armitage now says he was mute because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s request
At what time did Fitz make this request and WHY?
If Fitz had his source of the leak, why this investigation fiasco that went on as long as it did?
Politcal Witch hunt and who is pulling Pitz’s strings?
If I remember correctly, Fitzgerald wasn’t even going to prosecute this case when he first got it. He was pressured into going forward. The big question is where the pressure came from. He probably got one of those letters from the senators that threatened ABC over thier broadcasting license. (P2911)
How deep will this rabbit hole go? Fitz cannot be considered an “independent” prosecutor if he was influenced to proceed when all the evidence was saying otherwise.
The question is, will the media care now?
Everybody knows that Armitage is just Rove in a bald guy suit! Rove did it! The fact that the facts show otherwise is just a clear indication of how much power the eeevvvviiiillll Rove has! He can transform the truth into facts!
Or something, but anyhow, Rove did it!
Scooter Libby is under indictment for “differing” statements that are probably less different than Armitage’s by far, but notice the break he gets? Especially from the MSM, and the “it’d too complex a story now” appologists.
“It’s too complicated now” – translation: “Well crap. We thought we finally had that evil Rove, and Bush, and Cheney on a flat out Waterergate type scandal, and it all falls apart. Damn Sam. No more mining this one. Just move along.” – DNC
- BTW – After how many million lines of accusations, atricles in the lame-stream press, and countless left wing bloggers comments, including outright phoney Leopold type flaps, I have not seen one single DemDork apologize to Rove or anyone in the Bush adminstration that the moonbats were so intent in gleefuly denegrating. But that would require a tiny bit of character and class, which we all know simply does not exist in the progressive ranks.
- What a pack of losers.
- Bang
When I read Armitage’s statement and explanation for saying nothing before now, something was not ringing true. If Fitz was aware of this as early on as Armitage claims then we are looking at gross prosecutorial misconduct. If it was not a crime for Armitage to make the revelation about Joe deWhiner’s wife then how is Libby’s erroneous rememberance a crime? There was no crime to commit perjury about in the first place.
Fitz knew therewas nothing to the case and proceeded so he could make some money doing nothing, but doing it in such a way that the Dems could gleefully parade Roves head on a pike. Some of them still think the indictment is forthcoming. Then again, they also believe that Bush is simultaneously the biggest idiot to ever be in office and an evil genius with the combined intellect of Lex Luthor, Thaddeus Sivana and Victor VonDoom.