Plame Gossip - The leaker identified?

[kpete]

Plame Gossip - The leaker identified?

It's Drudge, so several grains of salt on this one, but he claims that Ben Bradlee told Vanity Fair...

'That Armitage is the likely source is a fair assumption,' former WASHINGTON POST editor Ben Bradlee said."

Now if this is wrong, as is Drudge's grand journalistic tradition, it will disappear with no explanation, but Armitage has been the guess for a long time, so this, although questionable conduct by Bradlee, is certainly possible.

http://bornatthecrestoftheempire.blogspot.com/2006/03/plame-gossip-leaker-identified.html
http://www.drudgereport.com/flash3.htm

[Trevelyan]

1. Interesting, I wonder what FireDogLake has to say... the front page of DU

article last week made a statement that Rove was expected to be indicted soon but that statement was it, no sources??? I certainly hope so.

[swag]

2. Also here, via warandpiece.com

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x645593

[Catrina]

3. Why would Armitage want to help the neocons? That sounds like Rove's

latest attempt to take the heat off Libby, himself and Cheney who everyone pretty much knows now are the leakers ~

I never heard that Armitage was the leaker ~ it's looking more and more like it was Cheney from the court documents and from Libby's own testimony before the GJ. Armitage had no interest in going after Wilson ~ he disagreed with the neocons most of the time ~

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. Yeah, that's what I think too.

Sounds to me like either Bradlee joined the dark side or Drudge wants us to think he did.

[BlueManDude]

5. blame one of the only sane ones. yeah we believe that - not. n/t

[AlCzervik]

7. thats a good theory, from everything i've read about Armitage

he was on Powell's side, yes Powell enabler but what would be in it for him to leak Plames name? I think you're correct about Rove. Armitage is just the latest red herring.

[Garbo 2004]

8. Speculation that Armitage told Woodward, but not as part of the Cheney

gang anti-Wilson campaign. Perhaps just as gossip about what was going on at the time. And mentioned it casually just as Woodward claimed.

Woodward did nothing with the info. And no indication that Armitage was intentionally planting info with the media to hurt Wilson as Libby etc were doing. Armitage was not a part of their gang.

One wonders perhaps if Woodward was tipped to the concerted effort of the Cheneyites to out Plame in an attempt to discredit Wilson. If so, that puts Woodward's subsequent public pooh-poohing of Plamegate in even a worse light than before.

[Catrina]

10. Yes, that's possible I suppose, or maybe Woodward, having heard it

from Hadley, mentioned it to Armitage, either deliberately, or just as gossip, not as you already said, with the intention of harming Wilson ~

I recall that Woodward's 'source' was thought to be Hadley ~ not Armitage. I wonder where this is coming from? Hardly from Armitage. That would leave Woodward, unless someone else overheard a Woodward/Armitage conversation. Even if that was the case, it's still possible that the information came to Woodward from Hadley ~

Someone is getting really desperate to throw this case off balance ~ between this little story and the other article claiming CIA information could be bought online ~ the 'swiftie conspirators' seem to be hard at work this week. That could mean that Fitzgerald is getting close to the truth ~

[hang a left]

11. Armitage and Powell

I don't think so. Maybe they are cooperating with Fitzgerald but I highly doubt it was Armitage. Must be an indictment coming soon.

[Me.]

6. Assumptions Aren't

facts, whether they are fair or not.

[Hutzpa]

9. I have a funny feeling this is a sign

of a set-up and people here are already wetting their pants. Sometimes I wonder. Its like he's nolonger in office, so we can get him to take the fall, especially couple with the fact he has been speaking against the Neos....as in 60mins.

:mad: :mad: