Advocate wrote:Okie, you must know by now that Armitage did work in the administration. Rove, who corroborated Plame's ID, and thus is equally guilty, certainly worked in the administration. What are you talking about?
Joe Wilson's report was accurate, and the White House later admitted this. The CIA has said a hundred times that Plame was covert.
Ho hum, I am aware of that. That is why I qualified my description to be those in the administration that you are mad it, because that includes Rove, Cheney, and Bush, not Armitage. There is no anger or blame felt toward Armitage by the left, even though he was the leaker. Rove simply said something to the effect of "Oh you heard that too," or something to that effect, as Novak already had the information.
Again, Joe Wilson never submitted a written report, as I recall. He was debriefed and he did confirm that contacts had been made between Iraq and Niger, which strengthens instead of disproves the likelihood that Iraq was seeking to obtain yellowcake, since that is the only export Niger would have of any value to Iraq. Wilson's trip proved nothing in Niger, and in fact as far as I can tell he did no intelligence work, but somehow must have thought he knew about all the intelligence that the CIA had. Otherwise, how could he claim to be the ultimate authority on the subject, as he did in his oped column? Did his wife leak all of the intelligence work that she and the CIA had to him? If so, is that legal, and why has this man not had to answer a few questions?
