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Plamegate, RIP
By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 28, 2006
Unfortunately for her vanity lawsuit, the “leaker” in the Valerie Plame “scandal” is the one Bush administration official she didn’t sue.
According to an article written by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff’s entitled “The Man Who Said Too Much,” the first person to tell the press that Valerie Plame sent her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, on his preposterous trip to Niger was then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
The article was designed to promote Hubris, the new book Isikoff co-wrote with David Corn, Washington editor of the far-Left Nation magazine – a fact which in itself ought to speak volumes about Newsweek’s “unbiased reporting.” The book relates that, upon reading Bob Novak’s description of the original source as “no partisan gunslinger,” Armitage told others in State he was “the one that f-cked up.”
Appearing on yesterday’s “Meet the Press,” Novak would neither “confirm nor deny” the story by Isikoff but offered that Isikoff is “a very good investigative reporter.” Reiterating his policy not to name sources without their permission, he concluded, “I believe it is way past time for my source to come forward.”
At this stage, permission is perfunctory. Records show Armitage met with Bob Woodward on June 13, 2003, weeks before his discussion with Novak. Bloggers have speculated for months that Armitage was the Bush league Deep Throat, and Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee named him a “likely source.”
The revelation discredits the Left’s conspiracy theory that the Bush administration leaked Plame’s name to Novak in retaliation for Wilson’s op-ed, “What I Didn’t Find in Niger.” Corn admits, “Colleagues of Armitage told us that Armitage – who is known to be an inveterate gossip – was only conveying a hot tidbit, not aiming to do Joe Wilson harm.” This confirms Woodward’s
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By Ben Johnson
FrontPageMagazine.com | August 28, 2006
Unfortunately for her vanity lawsuit, the “leaker” in the Valerie Plame “scandal” is the one Bush administration official she didn’t sue.
According to an article written by Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff’s entitled “The Man Who Said Too Much,” the first person to tell the press that Valerie Plame sent her husband, Ambassador Joe Wilson, on his preposterous trip to Niger was then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.
The article was designed to promote Hubris, the new book Isikoff co-wrote with David Corn, Washington editor of the far-Left Nation magazine – a fact which in itself ought to speak volumes about Newsweek’s “unbiased reporting.” The book relates that, upon reading Bob Novak’s description of the original source as “no partisan gunslinger,” Armitage told others in State he was “the one that f-cked up.”
Appearing on yesterday’s “Meet the Press,” Novak would neither “confirm nor deny” the story by Isikoff but offered that Isikoff is “a very good investigative reporter.” Reiterating his policy not to name sources without their permission, he concluded, “I believe it is way past time for my source to come forward.”
At this stage, permission is perfunctory. Records show Armitage met with Bob Woodward on June 13, 2003, weeks before his discussion with Novak. Bloggers have speculated for months that Armitage was the Bush league Deep Throat, and Washington Post Editor Ben Bradlee named him a “likely source.”
The revelation discredits the Left’s conspiracy theory that the Bush administration leaked Plame’s name to Novak in retaliation for Wilson’s op-ed, “What I Didn’t Find in Niger.” Corn admits, “Colleagues of Armitage told us that Armitage – who is known to be an inveterate gossip – was only conveying a hot tidbit, not aiming to do Joe Wilson harm.” This confirms Woodward’s
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