Date: August 30, 2006 4:10:48 AM PDT
Subject: [A-albionic_Subscription] What Did Fitzgerald Know and When Did He Know It?
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Dear Readers.
You gotta think a bit about this one. Why did the prosecutor indict Scooter
Libby when he knew that Richard Armitage was the perp and there was no love
lost between the 2. Y would Scooter Libby lie to protect Armitage? Y would
Fitzgerald bring a false accusation? Y hasn't Fitzgerald brought charges vs
the real leaker?
Fitzgerald should be prosecuted for abuse of power. Every newspaper who
misreported the story should run a retraction.
They won't so the real qustion to ponder becomes: why won't even one of the
100's who misrepresented the truth (aka lie), even unintentionally, admit
their error.
The answers to these questions are much more disturbing than one crooked
prosecutor.
Rich Martin
[CPA] What Did Fitzgerald Know and When Did He Know It?
What Did Fitzgerald Know and When Did He Know It?
Posted by Jason Smith on August 27, 2006 - 22:59. | Jason Smith's blog
Now we know where Robert Novak learned about Valerie Plame. To the Left's
dismay, it wasn't some mega-whopper conspiracy of historical proportions
aimed at paying back a critic of the administration. .. instead, it was just
a guy who liked Washington gossip, and actually once called Bush, Cheney, et
al. a "bunch of jerks".
In the early morning of Oct. 1, 2003, Secretary of State Colin Powell
received an urgent phone call from his No. 2 at the State Department.
Richard Armitage was clearly agitated. As recounted in a new book, " Hubris:
The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War ,"
Armitage had been at home reading the newspaper and had come across a column
by journalist Robert Novak. Months earlier, Novak had caused a huge stir
when he revealed that Valerie Plame, wife of Iraq-war critic Joseph Wilson,
was a CIA officer. Ever since, Washington had been trying to find out who
leaked the information to Novak. The columnist himself had kept quiet. But
now, in a second column, Novak provided a tantalizing clue: his primary
source, he wrote, was a "senior administration official" who was "not a
partisan gunslinger." Armitage was shaken. After reading the column, he knew
immediately who the leaker was. On the phone with Powell that morning,
Armitage was "in deep distress,"
says a source directly familiar with the conversation who asked not to be
identified because of legal sensitivities. "I'm sure he's talking about me."
According to Michael Isikoff, peddling his new book (written with liberal
David Corn) in Newsweek:
Armitage's central role as the primary source on Plame is detailed for the
first time in "Hubris," which recounts the leak case and the inside battles
at the CIA and White House in the run-up to the war. The disclosures about
Armitage, gleaned from interviews with colleagues, friends and lawyers
directly involved in the case, underscore one of the ironies of the Plame
investigation: that the initial leak, seized on by administration critics as
evidence of how far the White House was willing to go to smear an opponent,
came from a man who had no apparent intention of harming anyone.
Oops.
Now, here's the big question... what did Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald know
and when did he know it?
Armitage's admission led to a flurry of anxious phone calls and meetings
that day at the State Department. (Days earlier, the Justice Department had
launched a criminal investigation into the Plame leak after the CIA informed
officials there that she was an undercover officer.) Within hours, William
Howard Taft IV, the State Department's legal adviser, notified a senior
Justice official that Armitage had information relevant to the case. The
next day, a team of FBI agents and Justice prosecutors investigating the
leak questioned the deputy secretary. Armitage acknowledged that he had
passed along to Novak information contained in a classified State Department
memo: that Wilson's wife worked on weapons-of-mass- destruction issues at
the CIA . (The memo made no reference to her undercover status.) Armitage
had met with Novak in his State Department office on July 8, 2003just days
before Novak published his first piece identifying Plame. Powell, Armitage
and Taft, the only
three officials at the State Department who knew the story, never breathed a
word of it publicly and Armitage's role remained secret.
and...
Armitage himself was aggressively investigated by special counsel Patrick
Fitzgerald, but was never charged. Fitzgerald found no evidence that
Armitage knew of Plame's covert CIA status when he talked to Novak and
Woodward.
So, Armitage admitted being the leaker and was promptly investigated by the
Justice Department investigators. .. even "aggresively investigated" by
special counsel Fitzgerald. Within months of Novak's article, investigators
knew exactly who had leaked... and had "found no evidence" that an "outing"
was intentional.
So the big question now is why did Fitzgerald continue his investigation for
another two years until he was able to indict an administration official for
a bad memory?
Maybe another investigation should be launched...
Put on your ears and hear it from John's lips.
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