I almost get the feeling Armitage was IN on the outing of Plame

[Quixote1818]

It's like he was acting for the recording so it sounded like it came out accidentally. Once it was out they could go wild and suddenly Plame is "fair game".

Armitage strikes me as the one that is on the inside and acts like he is on the outside. They send him out as a decoy because he always seems to be the straight shooter and everyone trusts him. They use him to pull the wool over our eyes.

I think it's all an act and I don't trust him or Woodward!

Also, do we have proof of when that recording was made?

[The Backlash Cometh]

1. If Armitage had been black or hispanic, he would have been kicked out on his ass.

But he's white, so assume he was part of a very tactical leak.

[BuyingThyme]

2. Me too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x192324

[Quixote1818]

3. You would imagine Fitz has considered this

If true they must have covered their tracks.

[BuyingThyme]

5. Well, he made it very clear that he knows that a bunch of people

were conducting a cover-up. That seems to be more clear all the time.

[aquart]

4. Once it was out, they STILL weren't allowed to confirm it.

[BuyingThyme]

6. And as you sit back, you want to learn:

Why was this information going out? Why were people taking this information about Valerie Wilson and giving it to reporters? Why did Mr. Libby say what he did? Why did he tell Judith Miller three times? Why did he tell the press secretary on Monday? Why did he tell Mr. Cooper? And was this something where he intended to cause whatever damage was caused?

Or did they intend to do something else and where are the shades of gray?

And what we have when someone charges obstruction of justice, the umpire gets sand thrown in his eyes. He's trying to figure what happened and somebody blocked their view.

As you sit here now, if you're asking me what his motives were, I can't tell you; we haven't charged it.

So what you were saying is the harm in an obstruction investigation is it prevents us from making the fine judgments we want to make.

I also want to take away from the notion that somehow we should take an obstruction charge less seriously than a leak charge.

This is a very serious matter and compromising national security information is a very serious matter. But the need to get to the bottom of what happened and whether national security was compromised by inadvertence, by recklessness, by maliciousness is extremely important. We need to know the truth. And anyone who would go into a grand jury and lie, obstruct and impede the investigation has committed a serious crime.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/28/AR2005102801340_pf.html