Has Armitage himself admitted disclosing Plame's identity?

[rzemanfl]

Not hearsay, not "persons close to" but he himself? Has Novak ID'd him?

[napi21]

1. Not that I've heard, BUT, this has been announced for at least a

week now, and I would surely think thatif he didn't do it he would have been on the TV screaming FALSE!!!

[rzemanfl]

2. Like Kerry was able to un-Swiftboat himself? Remember LBJ

and the pig. "Have you stopped beating your wife?" is proof these days?

[lonehalf]

3. Yes

Yhe NYT says that both Armitage and Novak told Fitzgerald that it was him.

As far as I know neither one has said so publicly, though.

Here's the link:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/02/washington/02leak.html?ei=5065&en=1939cd793ece790a&ex=1157774400&partner=MYWAY&pagewanted=print

[rzemanfl]

5. So the answer is really , "No, but he'd defend himself if it were

false." To me that is just "No." Just like the "pig f***er" who ran against LBJ. All of this "not for attribution" shit means nothing to me. If these people are willing to violate grand jury secrecy they probably are also willing to lie.

[Igel]

4. His lawyer said he did it.

Presumably with Armitage's permission.

A couple of days ago, IIRC.

[rzemanfl]

6. Where does one find "his" lawyer saying it? Is the lawyer

identified by name? Why should we have to "presume" anything about something that has a simple "yes" or "no" answer?

[Igel]

10. I stand corrected.

It wasn't "his" lawyer, it was "a" lawyer, as well as "associates":

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/washington/30armitage.html

" Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, has acknowledged that he was the person whose conversation with a columnist in 2003 prompted a long, politically laden criminal investigation in what became known as the C.I.A. leak case, a lawyer involved in the case said on Tuesday.

"Mr. Armitage did not return calls for comment. But the lawyer and other associates of Mr. Armitage have said he has confirmed that he was the initial and primary source for the columnist, Robert D. Novak, whose column of July 14, 2003, identified Valerie Wilson as a Central Intelligence Agency officer."

There's your simple 'yes or no' answer.

As the renowned academicians Klenin and Andersen said, in their 1991 UCLA debate, "One must make things as simple as possible." "Yes, but you can't make them simpler than possible."

[rzemanfl]

11. So, a group of unnamed people who claim to associate

with him or are lawyers of some sort with some connection to the case say he says he did it? The simple answer is he may or he may not have and until one of these folks in the in crowd gives their name, it doesn't even rise to the level of hearsay.

[clark08]

7. Yea, he admitted it early on to Fitz.

Why didn't he just shut the investigation down then and not get our hopes up?????????

[Sparkly]

8. Because it didn't start or end with Armitage. nt

[rzemanfl]

9. And whose word do we have for that? n/t