Excellent piece on Plame, Armitage & his friend "Duberdog".

[robertpaulsen]

Published on October 12, 2006 by TomDispatch.com
Who Said All Roads Lead to Karl?
How CIA-Leak Pardons Could Clear the Decks for 2008
by Elizabeth de la Vega

snip

Armitage talked to Novak on July 8, 2003, two days after Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times questioning President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to acquire "yellowcake" uranium in Africa. Novak then relayed the information to Rove, who replied -- according to Novak -- "Oh, you know that too?" Novak then used this confirmation as a basis for disclosing these nuggets in a July 14th column. Yet, as the story is told in Hubris, Armitage had no idea he was Novak's source until October 1, 2003 when he read a new Novak article that described one of the leakers as "no partisan gunslinger." At that point, Armitage was allegedly pained and distressed to realize that Novak must be referring to him.

Let's stop right there. A public furor about the leak had begun to simmer in mid- July, almost immediately after Novak's column appeared. Throughout August and September, the controversy had escalated into calls for an investigation. Yet Armitage claims to have been blissfully unaware that any of this brouhaha related to him. He gave not a thought to his conversation with Novak -- and apparently did not talk about the leak controversy with anyone -- not even on Friday September 26, 2003 when news broke that the CIA had asked the Justice Department to investigate the Plame leak. (Novak himself hired a lawyer on that day.)

By Monday, September 29, according to Hubris, "The Plame leak was the news consuming Washington." At the daily White House briefing, press spokesman Scott McClellan told reporters that "the President expects everyone in his administration to adhere to the highest standards of conduct. No one would be authorized to do such a thing." McClellan vouched for both Rove and the Office of the Vice President as having no involvement in the leak. Yet Armitage -- who, as Hubris reports, had told Iran-Contra investigators in 1987, "I am pretty nosy and frankly I think I've learned the lesson in a bureaucracy that the more you know, the more you can put things together." -- was reportedly completely oblivious?

After the aha! moment when Armitage realized he was the only non-partisan gunslinger in town-- so the story goes -- he immediately called his then-boss and close friend, Secretary of State Colin Powell. Both promptly called... Ken Duberstein.

http://www.commondreams.org/views06/1012-27.htm


I was not familiar with Duberstein until reading this. So I share de la Vega's disgust at all the intertwining machinations that occurred regarding Plame's outing. And I hope she's wrong about a December surprise.

[Greeby]

1. He was on the Daily Show one time

Ed Helms noted he looks like "The dad from Family Guy"

[riderinthestorm]

2. Kick. Calling H2O man....

[slaveplanet]

3. am I supposed

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Armitage was allegedly pained and distressed to realize that Novak must be referring to him.
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be envisioning Armitage doing his best Urkel impression- "Oops, Did I do thaaat"

what a joke.

[robertpaulsen]

4. Damn! Looks like The Thing from The Fantastic Four.

At first I thought Armitage was OK, but not after Plame and Wilson sued him.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. google: Armitatage heroin Southeast Asia

have fun

then, try this

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=armitage+iran+contra