So much for your assumptions...

[Garrdor]

Highschool current events debate team WRU?

[Ddrak]

I don't think anyone was seriously thinking that Armitage was malicious in leaking. There was definitely a campaign from the VP's office to smear Wilson/Plame and there's significant doubt as to whether they already knew Armitage had leaked Plame's status prior to their own leak. The CIA seems to think Plame was covert at the time, so I have no real clue what the score is there.

Dd

[Kulaf]

I think Jecks was not trying to underscore Amitage's intent.....but the fact that he had:

never seen, ever in 43 years of having a security clearance, a covert operative's name in a memo

The crux of this entire issue really revolves around the CIA's handling of her status. The "leak" is just a distraction from the main focus.....the CIA's mishandling of Plame. She should never have been in that meeting, she should never have been alowed to recomend her husband, he should never have been sent.

I said it when this issue first broke.....the CIA really dropped the ball if they were seriously trying to maintain her cover status.

[Partha]

Armitage claims he had no ill intent - but how does he know Valerie Plame is Joe Wilson's wife at the time, for curiosity's sake?

I also note that Rove has never disclosed the reasons he spoke to Cooper or Novak about Plame's identity.

[Klast Brell]

So do the guys trying people at Gitmo......but you can Klast are in here all the time harping about how they are being denied access to evidence.

Funny that.

Whuh? care to translate that sentance in to English for me?

[Kulaf]

So do the guys trying people at Gitmo......but you can Klast are in here all the time harping about how they are being denied access to evidence.

Funny that.

Whuh? care to translate that sentance in to English for me?

You want me to translate something I wrote in April of 2006 just because you read it now?

[Klast Brell]

Sorry. Didn't realize this thread was a zombie.