CIA Leak Case Watch: Richard Armitage Comes “CLEAN”

Washington Post: Armitage Says He Was Source of CIA Leak

Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage said yesterday that he believes he was the initial source for a 2003 newspaper column by Robert D. Novak that disclosed the CIA’s previously secret employment of Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the U.S. war in Iraq.

Armitage said that he learned about Plame’s employment from a State Department memo that did not mention her covert status, and that he had no knowledge of it at the time. In 40 years of reading classified materials, Armitage said in a telephone interview, “I have never seen in a memo . . . a covert agent’s name.”

Novak’s disclosure of Plame’s CIA employment ultimately led to the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the leak. In October of last year, a grand jury indicted vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby on charges of lying to investigators about his conversations with reporters about Plame, forcing his resignation and embarrassing the White House.

Richard Armitage is a SELF-SERVING DUMBASS.

Patrick Fitzgerald should end the prosecution of Scooter Libby and/or the President should pardon him.

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