How come Woodward didn't write about what Armitage told him???? OMFG!

[Quixote1818]

Woodward: Why wasn't taken out of the State of the Union then?

Armitage: Because I think it was overruled by the types down at the White House.


Come on! Holy shit, that was a HUGE story right there yet Woodward remained silent and even stood up for the Whitehouse EVEN after Armitage gave him the inside scoop!

This smells so bad and yet Woodward is getting a pass. What is going on here?

[JDPriestly]

1. I don't believe the Armitage story.

I don't believe he was just an innocent gossip. I believe the conspiracy to out Plame was a lot bigger than anyone could have thought. In his alleged conversation with Woodward, Armitage reflected the same anger at Wilson that motivated Libby, et al. Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems to me that Armitage was just as much a part of the conspiracy to out Plame as Libby or Rove. They were all set to discredit Plame. Armitage knew very well that Plame was top CIA and undercover. He knew how sensitive the information about her was. And he wanted to discredit Wilson. So he came forward. That doesn't change the fact that he knowingly revealed the name of an undercover CIA agent in order to discredit her husband. I don't see why Armitage has been given a free pass.

Also, where did Armitage learn that Plame was CIA and undercover?

[Quixote1818]

3. Whoops, the below post was meant for you.

I accidental linked it to my OP.

See here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=196336&mesg_id=196448

[lligrd]

5. Same Here.

I want to know what the story behind Armitage is. Why would he be talking to Woodward about Plame and who told him?

[JDPriestly]

8. Bush values loyalty and secrecy above all.

Bush does not tolerate anyone who speaks without his approval and permission. Bush is a total control freak when it comes to his message (or maybe, more correctly, Rove is). Armitage would not have lasted very long if he had really been the jovial free-lance gossip that Woodward says he was. No way. Armitage is the affable tool here. His accidental leak wasn't accidental at all. That's my take.

[DearAbby]

7. I get that too..

I remember Woodward saying that it was difficult to get an interview with Armitage, being refused time and time again. Then out of the blue (conveniently at the time of the outing) Armitage calls and says, he will do the interview, and drops the name? It was all orchestrated.

Woodward would have been considered a friendly in the White House. Seems logical they would drop the nugget on Woodward to pass along. But Woodward remained silent on it....Why?

[Garbo 2004]

9. Armitage learned from State Dept memo prepared in response to request for info

from the OVP. The memo did not indicate that Valerie Wilson's status was covert: http://truthout.org/imgs.art_01/fordmemo.pdf

What is your source for your assertion that Armitage knew she was "undercover?"

The real news from Woodward's testimony is that Armitage indicated that the Niger claims wound up in the State of the Union because the WH ignored and overrode the CIA's objections. Remember, the State Dept had also debunked the Niger claims before Wilson was sent to Niger.

[Quixote1818]

2. .

Two of us feel the same as you do


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x196163

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

[SoCalDem]

4. Because that "ruh-pordur" is a toady. He "saves" news for

sale when he writes his books.

This shit is what irks me the MOST. Employees of papers/news services etc are PAID to research stories/articles and for submitting editorials etc, and yet they hold back the "juicy stuff" to be sold at a later date..to the highest bidder.

News is more important now, than ever before and how many times has stuff come out YEARS after it should have? Too many times to count.

Had the wiretapping stuff been printed by the NYT when they paid for its discovery and their people wrote about it, we would NOT have a 2nd term idiot.. They "conveniently" sat on it until AFTER the election.and what did they get for their loyalty to doofus? They got reamed by him and the right wingers still never miss a chance to diss the NYT.

[BuyingThyme]

6. I think this RAH-porter only prints the stuff that serves his

contacts.