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sabra (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:02 PM Original message |
(Richard) Armitage Says He Was Foolish in CIA Leak |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yeah I believe -amazing how our media now sells Armitage as "good guy" despite prior bad guy history |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Well, the media isn't "selling" anything--they're QUOTING the guy. |
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papau (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:56 PM Response to Reply #4 |
31. True - but it is well past the time that papers should report the "news" without giving |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:18 PM Response to Reply #31 |
39. You absolutely need the context to understand his regret. |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. He got gossipy and hubris-laden. He would have been better off if he'd gone to a dentist instead |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:21 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Do you find that damn tooth distracting too? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:39 PM Response to Reply #10 |
12. He looks like he should be trying to steal Olive Oyl from Popeye, or something!! nt |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
51. Uncle Fester from Addams Family Values is more attractive. nt |
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hlthe2b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
3. The rarest of rare... |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 07:30 PM Response to Reply #3 |
20. He takes no responsibility for anything. He knows he won't be touched |
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chelsea0011 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 08:54 AM Response to Reply #20 |
35. You got that right. Here is a guy confessing and it's hands off to him? |
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sofa king (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
42. I still think he's covering for Hadley, Cheney and Rove. |
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louis-t (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
5. Yes, foolish, and treasonous. |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 11:20 AM Response to Reply #5 |
36. He would do better to distinguish his off-the-cuff remark, from the calculated effort managed by the |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. Why isn't that big fat bastard in jail?? |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
13. He didn't fuck around. He copped to what he did, immediately. |
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The_Casual_Observer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:50 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. It makes nonsense of the fitz thing about the case being confused by lies |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 05:13 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. No it doesn't. |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 07:32 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. and what about rove, he lied also, but fitzey baby kept giving him an opportunity to get it right |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 07:36 PM Response to Reply #22 |
23. He got his story straight, and then came clean. He had better legal help, and it was "decided" |
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still_one (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 07:39 PM Response to Reply #23 |
24. He lied, and whether you are talking to an FBI agent or under oath, both are prosecutable |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:20 PM Response to Reply #24 |
40. Only if you can PROVE it, as Fitzgerald noted. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 09:40 PM Response to Reply #15 |
27. If this guy had said the same thing to a....let's say Russian |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:25 PM Response to Reply #27 |
41. I heard Plame make that argument on Real Time. |
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DemoTex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. I tend to think that Armitage was a Judas Goat ... |
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calimary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:00 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. Well, he sure as hell was a Judas Something. |
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struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:46 PM Response to Reply #7 |
30. Bingo! |
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Benhurst (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. In BushAmerica, treason is soooooo silly. |
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Baby Snooks (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 09:16 PM Response to Reply #8 |
25. "Just a technicality" |
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Eurobabe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:19 PM Response to Original message |
9. So why isn't Uncle Fester behind bars? |
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Rosa Luxemburg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 04:24 PM Response to Original message |
11. Foolish eh? What a lying toad |
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bjobotts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 05:16 PM Response to Original message |
16. It was foolish of me to get so many people killed from a slip of the tongue |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
17. Hmmm, no one seems to question this.... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 11:29 PM Response to Reply #17 |
45. It was that memo they were handing around AF1--Ari and others saw it, too. NT |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 05:34 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. Not according to Fitzgerald... |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 06:42 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. The AF1 memo WAS a State Department memo |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:00 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Ahhh, got it, thanks, it wasn't clear from what I had read that |
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MADem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:22 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. To be quite precise, it probably wasn't word-for-word the same, but the |
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Spazito (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:54 PM Response to Reply #52 |
53. Yes, that's very true, it does answer my question as to the |
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mahatmakanejeeves (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 05:50 PM Response to Original message |
18. Oh, fiddle-dee-dee. |
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lovuian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 06:28 PM Response to Original message |
19. To out a CIA agent intentionally is TREAson |
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mod mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 07:31 PM Response to Original message |
21. treasonous is the term I would choose. |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
26. Ummm.....did he just admit that he committed "Treason"? |
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humbled_opinion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-11-07 10:05 PM Response to Reply #26 |
29. DOH.. Yep but notice everyone is silent including the Democrat Leadership. n/t |
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MadMaddie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 02:18 AM Response to Reply #29 |
32. Yea and the Democratic leadership seems to fail again. |
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0007 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 08:08 AM Response to Original message |
33. When did Armitage ever show any common sense? |
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leftist_not_liberal (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
34. EVERY CIA agent should be outed |
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Doctor_J (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 11:29 AM Response to Original message |
37. One man's fool is another one's traitor |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 12:03 PM Response to Original message |
38. Will this stop any congressional investigation? |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 04:58 PM Response to Original message |
43. Naughty boy. |
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yardwork (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Nov-12-07 05:11 PM Response to Original message |
44. ya think? |
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sutz12 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 06:45 PM Response to Original message |
48. Working for the Bush administration is foolish.. |
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Ilsa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-13-07 07:14 PM Response to Reply #48 |
50. Yep, working for them is foolish. Eventually you are expected |
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