ARMITAGE THE LEAKER - - -EXPOSED

The Real Story Behind Armitage's Role
By Robert Novak

"WASHINGTON -- 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. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.
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Duberstein told me Armitage wanted to know whether he was my source. I did not reply because I was sure that Armitage knew he was the source. I believed he contacted me Oct. 1 because of news the weekend of Sept. 27-28 that the Justice Department was investigating the leak. I cannot credit Armitage's current claim that he realized he was the source only when my Oct. 1 column revealed that the official who gave me the information was "no partisan gunslinger."

Armitage's silence the next 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. 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."



Read the whole thing, and just on FOXNEWS they are reporting that Valerie Plame shall continue suing THE VICE PRESIDENT & will add Richard Armitage to the lawsuit...

I think the Plame/Wilson's should be facing a "class-action" lawsuit filed against them by the American public for wasting our tax dollars...


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1) The Real Story Behind Armitage's Role