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Originally Posted by team_barlo
Okay--what about the fact that there was no penalty for the blabbermouth as was promised? This issue has been addressed by foundit but not you redd.
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Simple...
The people who just hate Bush interpret his statement of involvement as "involvement even if they didn't do anything wrong"...
Which is nearsighted and done on purpose...
As AG Fitzgerald found out, there was NO malicious behavior on anyone's part...In fact, the person who actually DID leak the name (
Armitage) did so without recognizing what he did...
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The man who revealed that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA said that he was "extraordinarily foolish" to leak her name.
Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage told CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview broadcast Sunday that he did not realize Plame was a covert agent when he discussed her with syndicated columnist Robert Novak.
Novak, a former CNN contributor, wrote the July 2003 column in which Plame was named as a CIA employee. He later cited his sources as Armitage and Karl Rove, then President Bush's top political adviser.
Armitage said he had seen a memo that said Plame was publicly chairing a meeting, so he assumed her CIA employment was not a secret.
"There was no ill intent on my part, and I had never seen, ever in 43 years of having a security clearance, a covert operative's name in a memo,"
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These two sentences tell the WHOLE story...
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Neither Armitage nor Rove was charged with a crime in the leak.
Wilson and Plame have accused Rove and other Bush officials of leaking her identity as a CIA officer in retaliation for her husband's emergence as an administration critic.
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The second sentence is obviously false due to NOT ONE PERSON being indicted for leaking...
But Bush-haters continue to believe the second sentence with absolutely nothing to fall back on...
The funny thing is is that, for as many people who consider waterboarding torture, I think that if the next president ordered Bush, Cheney, and Rove to be waterboarded, those same people would be clapping and crying tears of joy...
