[Marxism] The Irrelevance of Armitage's "I dood it" Revelation

[Brian Shannon <Brian_Shannon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Conason
UNTANGLING THE FACTS IN CIA LEAK PROBE
Friday, Sep 8, 2006

To observe the Washington press corps is to wonder why so many people  
who don't remember what happened yesterday and can't master basic  
logic are expected to analyze politics and policy.
. . .
But whatever [Richard] Armitage [then Deputy Secretary of State] did,  
or says he did, in no way alters what Rove and Libby did in the days  
that followed, nor does it change their intentions. It's a simple  
concept -- two people or more can commit a similar act for entirely  
different reasons -- but evidently it has flummoxed the great minds  
of contemporary journalism.

In this instance, Armitage says he was merely "gossiping" with Novak,  
who seems to have been primed to question him about the Wilson  
affair. But both Rove and Libby sought to undermine Joe Wilson's  
credibility -- and perhaps to victimize him and his wife -- by  
revealing her identity to two reporters. Rove gave that information  
to Time reporter Matt Cooper, who got confirmation from Libby. And  
Libby provided the same poisonous tip to New York Times reporter  
Judith Miller.

Almost from the beginning of his investigation, Fitzgerald has known  
about the blabby Armitage, who came clean promptly. But Fitzgerald  
understood that the Armitage confession was of limited relevance. It  
didn't discourage the special counsel from conducting a thorough  
probe that uncovered the secretive effort, emanating from Vice  
President Dick Cheney's office, to discredit Joe Wilson and use his  
wife's two decades of dangerous devotion to her country as a weapon  
against him. Indeed, the only reason Armitage knew about Valerie  
Wilson was that he had read a negative dossier on Joe Wilson prepared  
at Libby's behest.

FULL AT
http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20060907/cm_uc_crjcox/joe_conason20060907



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