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September 13, 2006
Novak To The Future
"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," Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release.Novak, attempting to set the record straight, writes: "First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column."
*whistling*
Armitage's silence for "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," Novak explains."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."
Well, well, well... it appears there may yet be more crow to be eaten.
Posted by Cassandra at September 13, 2006 11:55 AM
Comments
But if Armitage was no friend of the Iraq war, and he was "no partisan gunslinger", what was his motive? It made sense when we could think that he had no interest in discrediting Wilson and just let something slip. But to think that he had no interest in discrediting Wilson but he was full of details and even mentioned the column?
Something is newly missing here.
Posted by: Tim Smith at September 13, 2006 12:28 PM
Who this Armitage oppressor is being the minion of, do you think? Who at Soviet Department of State is being most free with insider information of a most conspiratorial nature when it serves his purpose?
Comrade Powellski, izvestia???
Posted by: Tovarisha Cassandranova at September 13, 2006 12:34 PM
Bravo to Novak for laying it all out there! Yes, there is more to come, I think.
Posted by: FbL at September 13, 2006 12:50 PM
The more Comrade Cass sees of this pitiful affair, the more she thinks no one comes off well.
Purge them all.
Posted by: Tovarisha Cassandranova at September 13, 2006 12:58 PM
Purge them all? I'm on it!
-- Oleg
Posted by: a former european at September 13, 2006 06:31 PM
Armitage's silence for two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues
And Novak's silence? Conveniently forgotten. Wasn't one of his "colleagues" locked up in the pen for 90 days or so?
I think Novak comes out of this looking just as sleazy as the rest of the pitiful crew.
Posted by: Daveg at September 14, 2006 07:44 AM
Da, comrade. I have said as much in prior posts. I don't know when he testified, but this is a troubling point for me.
Posted by: Tovarisha Cassandranova at September 14, 2006 07:52 AM