The Armitage red herring
Mother Jones
by Daniel Schulman
09/04/06
In the Journal's interpretation, one shared by like-minded ideologues, this means that: '... the leaker wasn't Karl Rove or Scooter Libby or anyone else in the White House who has been accused of running a conspiracy against Ms. Plame as revenge for her husband Joe Wilson's false accusations against the White House's case for war with Iraq. So what have the last three years been all about anyway? Political opportunism and internal score-settling, among other things.' Not quite. The very significant news about Armitage's role in all of this is but one strand in a many-tentacled scandal that has led, among other places, to the office of the Vice President and to the President himself. Attempts to portray this news otherwise are just the latest effort by the right to mute the scandal, which has included questioning whether Plame was really covert and not just a Langley office hand...
http://tinyurl.com/mqrvh
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by Daniel Schulman
09/04/06
In the Journal's interpretation, one shared by like-minded ideologues, this means that: '... the leaker wasn't Karl Rove or Scooter Libby or anyone else in the White House who has been accused of running a conspiracy against Ms. Plame as revenge for her husband Joe Wilson's false accusations against the White House's case for war with Iraq. So what have the last three years been all about anyway? Political opportunism and internal score-settling, among other things.' Not quite. The very significant news about Armitage's role in all of this is but one strand in a many-tentacled scandal that has led, among other places, to the office of the Vice President and to the President himself. Attempts to portray this news otherwise are just the latest effort by the right to mute the scandal, which has included questioning whether Plame was really covert and not just a Langley office hand...
http://tinyurl.com/mqrvh
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 6. Sep, 14:07
