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I was wrong after all. I assumed from the start it would be an offhand mistake by whoever did it, but instead it was a diliberate leak by Armitage. His motivation, as an opponent to an Iraqi invasion seems somewhat unlcear. This of course means trusting Novak here, but I can't think of what he would gain by lying. Was he hoping to embrass the administration somehow? His silence seems to be golden here as he allowed many to suffer the slings and arrows he deserved. Was he hoping to somehow taint the war effort to prevent it from being launched? Honestly I'm not sure what his motivation would be here.
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Deja Moo
Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA
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Interesting news Ustwo. I would appreciate the source link.
What would his motivation be? I'm equally confused as to why he would point Novak to Plame. If Armitage wanted to embarass the administration regarding the war, that seems an odd way to go about it. And I agree with you that Novak's credibility is in question at least on my part. You have presented an interesting puzzle, Ustwo. |
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it is kinda funny that it took this to put robert novak's credibility into question. i dont know where the assumption could have come from that he had much previously for folk not conservative themselves.
part of the reason the novak piece is confusing is that he wants (typically for novak) to tow the republican party line concerning the storyline they would prefer to have framing the leak itself (pretending that it has already been reduced to a question of motivation such that any deviation from I AM DOING THIS TO DETROY A CRITIC OF THE BUSHWAR counts somehow as falsification of the problems attending the leak---a ludicrous line that has not been defended coherently, either here or anywhere else)----this spin creates something of a false dilemma concerning armitage as the source. that is because in the end all the article really does is loop back onto the question of motive at a slight remove---while at the same time compounding it by making it clear that armitage knew exactly what he was doing when he gave novak this information in the first place. so let's think about this for a minute: armitage was a signatory to the project for a new american century call for saddam hussein's removal in 1998. he is well known as a neocon. it follows that if he opposed bushwar, it was probably because he saw the case the administration was floating for it for what it was--flim flam--and objected to the political damage that it might do. so there is no reason to imagine that armitage opposed invading iraq--only the way in which the bush people played the game to enable it. so i am not at all sure where this notion of armitage as an opponent of invading iraq came from--it reads to me like another conservative bit of horse doo doo. that's right, i said horse doo doo. let's assume for a minute that armitage opposed how iraq was to be invaded, not the invasion of iraq itself---would that mean somehow that he would cease to also be in the employ of the administration and would therefore be ruled out as someone who could carry a bit of---um----cargo for the administration in an effort to destroy a critic? if anything novak's piece, beneath the regurgitation of the rightwing line of the moment, indicates that armitage was acting in something of an official capacity, doesn't it?
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Its just too complex for the American people now. Typical.
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Deja Moo
Location: Olympic Peninsula, WA
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A clever bit you are doing here with you OP, no? Not worthy in any sort of honest contribution to Politics, but you tried to set the bait and only got roachboy's logic in response. Then comes the typical u2 leap to "attack the liberals" posture. Your troll was far too obvious, u2. You must really make a better effort than this OP to stir up some antagonism. Why do you continue to try to provoke/inflame those that post here? Don't you have teeth to attend to? |
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http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/...t-novak14.html and here is the link to my response to the last claim posted about the complexity of the Fitzgerald investigation of the Plame CIA leak: <a href="http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?p=2118609#post2118609"> Quote:
<b>(Click on any of the text in the preceding quote box to view my linked post.)</b><br> Novak has reported this several ways, in the past. IMO, his POV is contradictory and unreliable, have a look: Quote:
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Suddenly, in the Oct., 2003 Blitzer interview, what was obvious to Novak in his July, 2003 writing about why Wilson was qualified to be sent to Niger in 2002 for the CIA, became the "mystery" that caused Novak to ask the "right" question....and not as he reported earlier....that the "senior officials" were eager to tell him that "Wilson's wife who worked for the CIA, sent him to Niger". We know that this "new line" from Novak, was a transparent ruse to make the Bush administration intimidation and payback "Op' against Wilson, by outting his wife at CIA, seem a result of Novak's journalistic "sleuthing", instead of what it really was, as I detailed from John Dickerson's reporting, here: http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthr...on#post2117020 <br> or here: <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2135565/">Time's John Dickerson: "I was told I should go ask the CIA who sent Wilson."</a> or here: <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2135565/">Time's John Dickerson: "It seemed obvious that the people pushing me to look into who sent Wilson knew exactly the answer I'd find. Yet they were really careful not to let the information slip, which suggested that they knew at the time Plame's identity was radioactive."</a> and here: <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2129097/">Time's John Dickerson: "More astonishingly, we learn from the Fitzgerald indictment that Ari Fleischer knew about Plame and didn't tell anyone at all. He walked reporters, including me, up to the fact, suggesting they look into who sent Wilson, but never used her name or talked about her position. Why not? "</a> Quote:
He's still trying to pass off that bullshit, here in the Sept. 13, 2006, OP column: Quote:
<b>"Ask us who sent Wilson to Niger."</b><br> It's so fucking simple....and obvious, that this is what happened....and Novak had to shift to the "mantra" that he thought up and asked that question....on his own, after the CIA complained that classifies information about Plame's employment, had been leaked.<br> ....and these are the idiot misfits, keeping us all safe from terr-herrr....or are they the fucking terrorists? People still back these "frat boys" turned traitors! IMO, it still seems an uncomplicated story about a US presidential administration behaving as intimidating thugs, too clever by half, intent on conning journalists into asking the officials about classified details about one CIA employee, to provide plausible deniability when they leaked the classified identity of the CIA employee, to the journalists who they conned into asking. ....All intended to set an example of what would happen to any other employee in the US intelligence community who thought about disclosing that the excuses for invading Iraq were known to be disputed, tenuous, or untrue, by officials such as Bush, Cheney, Rice, Rumsfeld, Tenet, Wolfowitz, and Perle, at al, when the uttered them to manipulate public support to pressure resistant senators and congressman to vote for the Oct., 2002 authorization to use force, as a last resort, against Iraq. As far as this last bit of Novak "crap", flung at the wall in the hope of some of it actually "sticking": Quote:
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I imagine the press will do their best to report this, but it's too convoluted at this point. Americans have lost interest in the story, but they haven't lost the bad taste the earlier parts of the story have left. The ambiguity of Armitage's intentions, in particuar, makes this a hard story to report on. News outlets with the opportunity to do deep, nuanced work might be able to handle it, but they don't have nearly the reach of the nighly news--and this piece of news doesn't reduce well into a 90-second package. Listen: Republican mid-term candidates are distancing themselves from Bush as hard as they can. There's a reason for that. This administration has gone from limping to crawling. We can argue whether that's right or wrong, I guess, but my point is just this: the damage is done. |
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I imagine when Scooter Libby goes on trial in Jan '07 for two counts of perjury, two counts of giving false statements to the FBI, and one count of obstruction of justice.....the press will cover it!
I agree the entire "plame affair" is convoluted, but that doesnt make the charges against Libby any less serious. Read the indictment yourself (pdf file): http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/osc/do...y%20charges%22
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