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Rove never made the perp walk....
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08-29-2006, 8:46 AM | Post #182248
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When the history of the 21st century is written, there may be mention of something called the Valerie Plame affair. In this scandal, member(s) of the Bush Administration supposedly "leaked" the identity of a secret, covert CIA agent to get back at her husband, Joe Wilson for criticizing the war in Iraq.
Problem. It never happened. As Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald discovered, no one leaked anything. Plame, it turns out, was not a secret, covert anything. Her identity was not a secret. She had a desk job. No one has been charged and no one will be charged for "outing" Valerie Plame. All we have now is a flimsy perjury and obstruction of justice case against Scooter Libby, *** Cheney's former Chief of Staff. Even that looks like it's headed nowhere.
But yet, there is still a fascination with the case. And a new book is out, written by Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and The Nation's David Corn. In it, we get some juicy tidbits about who said what and to whom. For instance, Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage is said to be the one who first "leaked" Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak.
Not Scooter Libby. Not Karl Rove. Not George W. Bush. Richard Armitage. You can hear the hopes and dreams of the impeachment crowd deflating as we speak. Armitage is not even really a big supporter of George W. Bush's war policy and is considered a moderate.
And yet Armitage was never charged. There you have it: the main figure in this non-scandal was Richard Armitage, some guy most people have never heard of at the State Department. So much for all the controversy.
Maybe some of the polls saying that Dems will not win as much as they say, are a result of the Dem bungling of this type of scenario.
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