SubscribeArmitage: Wilson Told Everyone About Plame
You can download the audio file for yourself (mp3 file) or listen to it via CNN.
Here is my transcription of the exchange:
Woodward: Well it was Joe Wilson who was sent by the agency, isn’t it?
Armitage: His wife works for the agency.
Woodward: Why doesn’t that come out? Why does that have to be a big secret?
Armitage: (over) Everybody knows it.
Woodward: Everyone knows?
Armitage: Yeah. And they know ’cause Joe Wilson’s been calling everybody. He’s pissed off ’cause he was designated as a low level guy went out to look at it. So he’s all pissed off.
Woodward: But why would they send him?
Armitage: Because his wife’s an analyst at the agency.
Woodward: It’s still weird.
Armitage: He — he’s perfect. She — she, this is what she does. She’s a WMD analyst out there.
Woodward: Oh, she is.
Armitage: (over) Yeah.
Woodward: Oh, I see. I didn’t think…
Armitage: (over) "I know who’ll look at it." Yeah, see?
Woodward: Oh. She’s the chief WMD…?
Armitage: No. She’s not the…
Woodward: But high enough up that she could say, "oh, yeah, hubby will go."
Armitage: Yeah. She knows [garbled].
Woodward: Was she out there with him, when he was…?
Armitage: (over) No, not to my knowledge. I don’t know if she was out there. But his wife’s in the agency as a WMD analyst. How about that?
According to Woodward, this exchange took place "nearly a month" before Bob Novak wrote his column referencing Ms. Plame.
I didn’t transcribe the beginning of the exchange. But in it Richard Armitage brags that "we" (at the State Department) are "clean as a whistle" regarding the yellowcake claims.
When Woodward asks him why the reference had been included in the State Of The Union address, Armitage notes it had been removed from an earlier speech. He then blames the White House. He adds that "Condi" "doesn’t like to be on the hot seat."
So it is abundantly clear Mr. Armitage was on Joe Wilson’s side in this argument. He was certainly not out to "punish" Joe Wilson by leaking the name of his wife or her job at the CIA.
In fact, Armitage claims "everybody knows" about Valerie Plame’s work at the CIA thanks to Mr. Wilson’s phone calls.
This substantiates what I have posited all along. That Wilson told every reporter he spoke to at the time about his wife’s job, to try to enhance his credibility.
And remember, Wilson pitched his story to numerous reporters before he got so frustrated by their soft-pedaling of his amazing scoop that he had to come out from behind the curtain and write his history-changing editorial for the New York Times.
A thousand lies later we learn that a compatriot of Wilson’s was the first government official on record for "leaking" this deep dark secret that "everybody" knew.
And we now know that Mr. Fitzgerald knew all of this even before he began his multi-year, multi-million dollar witch hunt.
But the media will use any weapon of mass deception to destroy its enemies.
And the truth be damned.
(Thanks to Enchante for the heads up.)
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February 13th, 2007 at 8:04 am
What is it going to take to put an end to Fitzgerald’s effort to effect a miscarriage of justice just so that he has something to show for a multi-year, multi-million dollar investigation that should never have happened in the first place? What is it going to take to bring Fitzgerald to justice?
The only good thing about the case is that it shows, for anyone willing to see, the corruption and partisanship of the mainstream media. But we alreday knew that so it is not worth it.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:02 pm
And it’s what everyone has said all along. Everyone knew Plame’s position. The whole affair was one big joke that has wasted time and money.
February 13th, 2007 at 12:24 pm
I guess the prosecution must be losing the case in court for this story to actually come out (remember we have to set up, whom to blame when we lose, it’s never our fault). It would be nice if Fitzgerald apologised to LIbby and then turned his legal license over to officials. But no like the liars Wilson/Plame, he will be the toast of DC until President Bush is out of office. . .
I have been saying this since this lie, oops story broke - Wilson was out there long before Libby, Rove or Cheney were even convicted, oops again, blamed for this whole non-story. Nice to see I was right all along.
esthier - it isn’t a joke, it’s a disgrace that Americans feel that they can smear a sitting President and his administration based on lies and can keep it going 3+ years later. They all deserve to do some jail time - to both get them out of their positions and to discourage anyone from doing this ever again. This is not what America is about - the Salam witchhunts proved that stupidity and intolerance were wrong - why are we allowing this to happen in the 21st century?
February 13th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
wardmama4, it’s revenge for Clinton. Ken Starr couldn’t prove that Clinton was guilty of anything more than perjury, so they went after Republicans trying to find something to make the Clinton trials seem trivial.
Unfortunately, it’s been so long that no one seems to care about the truth in this story. I’m not even seeing this on other Right blogs.
February 13th, 2007 at 2:41 pm
And this is sad. We’ve got to stand up for our own, here. Next time a conservative is on the chopping block for not helping Democrats hand our country over to islam, is Scooter Libby gonna be around to help defend him? After seeing nobody support him in his time of trial, will he help?
Trials and media smears are the Left’s weapon of choice. If we don’t defend the targets, we give those weapons more power. When we stand by the people who stand by us, when the slander fails, those weapons become weaker, and the people who wield them–the people who are them–suffer.
February 13th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
“Next time a conservative is on the chopping block for not helping Democrats hand our country over to islam, is Scooter Libby gonna be around to help defend him? After seeing nobody support him in his time of trial, will he help?”
This was the subject of a recent Ann Coulter column:
AnnCoulter.com - FREE THE FITZGERALD ONE!
http://www.anncoulter.com/cgi-.....rticle=168
It ends with the sentence:
“If you won’t defend your own champions, conservatives, then don’t sit back and wonder why so few people want to be your champions.”
February 13th, 2007 at 7:38 pm
Armitage: Yeah. She knows [garbled].
Woodward: Was she out there with him, when he was…?
This is the part that I’d like to know WHO was referenced. Someone high up in the CIA that Valerie knows helped her to send her husband.
And who is the “with him” referring to? Her husband or the mysterious WHO person?
Joe Wilson must be very happy now that everyone knows his name. When he goes to jail, maybe the other prisoners will ask for his autograph.
February 13th, 2007 at 7:41 pm
Nodems, I can’t make out the she knows line, but I think it is something like “she know that stuff.” That is, I don’t get the feeling Armitage was talking about a person.
As for who was the who referenced, Woodward was asking if Valerie went with Joe Wilson to Niger.
February 13th, 2007 at 9:50 pm
My bad, SG. I knew she’d mentioned it–and stopped myself from noting that this may be why our Republicans so often go RINO on us because that’s how Ann Coulter’s column started, but I forgot the part at the end.
I freely acknowledge the woman is smarter than I am, so by all means let her have the credit for that one.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:24 pm
she knows Acklin?
she knows ACRN?
she knows Aklyn?
she knows Akron?
she knows acronyms?
She knows Africa?
And yep, I agree that he was asking if she was there with Lying Joe.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Halprin!!!!
Let’s not forget, ABC is the same network where senior political director, Mark Halprin, was exposed as the author of a memo telling all ABC reporters and producers to favor Kerry in their coverage of the 2004 presidential race.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:40 pm
What’s Next for Libby? High-Profile Trial Could Be in Store
ABC News ^ | October 29, 2005 | Mark Hal
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Poli.....59619perin
ABC News’ Mark Halperin contributed to this report.
The funniest line is this trumped up story by a co-conspirator:
Politically at least, the indictment doesn’t seem like an overreach by Fitzgerald, or an easily-branded “criminalization of politics” by White House defenders.
February 13th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
ABC News’s “The Note” reported on October 19 that members of “The Old Media” are “giddy with excitement over the prospect of the Bush-Cheney-Rove-Mehlman machine losing,” and are having “secret morning conference calls with Howard Dean and George Soros” to discuss how they “can keep the meta-narrative (‘The Democrats are going to beat Bush and run Congress!!’) going for another 19 days, without interruption.”
Yet, there it was, in black and white. Please be advised that the writers by-lined included MARK HALPERIN, David Chalian, Teddy Davis, Tahman Bradley, Sarah Baker, Catrin Jones, Erica Anderson, and Daniel Steinberger. As such, this wasn’t one writer’s opinion:
February 13th, 2007 at 10:48 pm
Father of ABC Politics Chief Halperin: Bush ‘Far Greater Threat’ Than Nixon
Posted by Mark Finkelstein on July 16, 2006 - 15:03.
President Bush is an even greater threat to our civil liberties than that bête noire of the left, Richard Nixon. That’s Morton Halperin’s conclusion in a Los Angeles Times op-ed of today, Bush: Worse Than Nixon.
Halperin was once a name in the news. In 1969, then-National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger named Halperin to the NSA. But soon thereafter Kissinger suspected it was the dovish Halperin who leaked to the NY Times the fact that the US was secretly bombing Cambodia. The FBI began tapping his phone, and Halperin was soon gone from NSA. Perhaps Halperin’s biggest claim to fame is the fact that Pres. Nixon put him on his ‘Enemies List.’ A red badge of courage, no pun intended, off which a person can no doubt eat for a lifetime in liberal circles.
Halperin remains active politically, serving as a senior fellow at the ‘Center for American Progress.’ As detailed by the invaluable Discoverthenetworks, CAP is a George Soros-funded organization founded on the risible notion that American colleges and universities are dominated by . . . conservatives.”
Writes Halperin:
“It’s hard not to notice the clear similarities between then and now. Both the Nixon and Bush presidencies rely heavily on the use of national security as a pretext for the usurpation of unprecedented executive power.
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But soon thereafter Kissinger suspected it was the dovish Halperin who leaked to the NY Times the fact that the US was secretly bombing Cambodia.
Like father, like son??
February 13th, 2007 at 10:51 pm
Gosh, this all makes me sick:
Halperin, Soros, Wilson, Plame, Howard Dean
Talk about a damn conspiracy to get the President by any means necessary!!
February 13th, 2007 at 11:08 pm
What makes me sick is these people are still free…and still alive. That in itself is amazing to me….and if this were another time….not so long ago, they wouldnt be.
February 15th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
“Both the Nixon and Bush presidencies rely heavily on the use of national security as a pretext for the usurpation of unprecedented executive power.”
As opposed to FDR, who used socialism for an unprecedented grab of Executive and federal power.
March 8th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Why The Washington Post saw through Joe Wilson when the other liberal papers missed it….
It isn’t exactly a secret that the editors of The Washington Post aren’t the biggest supporters of the Bush Administration around. The Post is, like most of the other major newspapers in the country, both liberal and Democratic in its edi…