NOVAK: ARMITAGE DID NOT TELL ALL

[RoveRage]

Wed Sep 13 2006 08:37:07 ET

"When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state's interviews obscured what he really did," Bob Novak claims in a column set for Thursday release.

Novak, attempting to set the record straight, writes: "First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he 'thought' might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson. Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column."

Novak slams Armitage for holding back all this time.

Armitage's silence for "two and one-half years caused intense pain for his colleagues in government and enabled partisan Democrats in Congress to falsely accuse Rove of being my primary source," Novak explains.

"When Armitage now says he was mute because of special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's request, that does not explain his silent three months between his claimed first realization that he was the source and Fitzgerald's appointment on Dec. 30. Armitage's tardy self-disclosure is tainted because it is deceptive."

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Novak's a lying BASTARD!!!

[jaysunb]

1. Desparate little man....

I'm beginning to think this asshole may have a legal problem and knows it.

[RoveRage]

2. I think you're spot-on jaysunb!!!

He's in self-preservation mode like the rest of that criminal cabal in the Repuke party.

[cboy4]

3. I'm so sick of Novak. I wish one of his sources would finally throw him

under the bus......LITERALLY!

[whalerider55]

4. do i have this straight...

armitage admitted he told Novak.
armitage told the special prosecutor this right after Fitzie was hired, so fitzie knew who the initial perp was all the time. did armitage work a deal with fitzie to avoid preosecution? was it like the deal Novak worked? If so, given the public discrepencies emerging between Novak and Armitage, it looks like Fitzie cut two deals with the two major players, which in turn yielded testimony that differs on key points. only one of those can be right, so it seems like one of these two fine specimens of pond scum committed perjury to leverage their ass out of jail. ahem.
my bet is Novak, just because Armitage looks like he'll be able to handle himself in jail just fine.

of course, we note that Novak is pissed because the world was allowed to think that rove was his primary source, when he was only his secondary (confirming) source- which, in reality, doesn't mean that rove didn't still commit a crime, and secondarily, doesn't absolve his own perjury committed in four appearances before the grand jury.

i can't figure out Armitage. I thought he was State, Colin Powell's guy. whyat he playing footsie with the VPOTUS wankers?

although, you have to admit, when Novak bleats about "deceptive", he has a lot of experience in that regard.

it's always the coverup.

whalerider

[RoveRage]

6. I'm with ya whalerider, I've still not figured out what exactly Fitzie...

....was up to as he got his investigation started. Seems to me he had a couple of the key players in-hand and immediately gave them a pass.

Why? Why would he do such a thing?

[bleever]

5. The plot thickens, again.

Welcome to DU, RoveRage.

[RoveRage]

7. Full Story from the rat Novak!

When Richard Armitage finally acknowledged last week he was my source three years ago in revealing Valerie Plame Wilson as a CIA employee, the former deputy secretary of state’s interviews obscured what he really did. I want to set the record straight based on firsthand knowledge.

First, Armitage did not, as he now indicates, merely pass on something he had heard and that he ‘‘thought’’ might be so. Rather, he identified to me the CIA division where Mrs. Wilson worked, and said flatly that she recommended the mission to Niger by her husband, former Amb. Joseph Wilson.

Second, Armitage did not slip me this information as idle chitchat, as he now suggests. He made clear he considered it especially suited for my column.

An accurate depiction of what Armitage actually said deepens the irony of him being my source. He was a foremost internal skeptic of the administration’s war policy, and I long had opposed military intervention in Iraq. Zealous foes of George W. Bush transformed me improbably into the president’s lapdog. But they cannot fit Armitage into the left-wing fantasy of a well-crafted White House conspiracy to destroy Joe and Valerie Wilson. The news that he and not Karl Rove was the leaker was devastating news for the left.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/novak/cst-edt-novak14.html

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Novak needs to be frog-marched with his fellow rat, Rove.