Plame leaker (finally) identified

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Please note the absence of interest, even among frequenters of this forum.

The mission was accomplished with partial success, the rest is just fallout and ignorable as it does not support the overall campaign.

[Devastatin Dave]

Please note the absence of interest, even among frequenters of this forum.

Amazing isn't it.

[AntiochusIII]

Well, I don't know what's going on in the first place. So before one starts giving sarcastic remarks it might be a better path to humour the ignorants like me first.

[Tribesman]

Well Antioch it goes like this .
Someone gets a job to investigate claims about Saddams WMDs , the administration put forward those findings as "proof" .
The bloke that did the investigating says thats bollox , that ain't what I found .
The press turn round and say you can't call it bollox as you are a muppet who only got the job because of your wifes job .
The wifes employers say , oi you can't talk about his wife its a secret .
The press say , it can't be a secret as everyone knows .
The adminisration say , what do you mean everyone knows ?
The press says , of course they know , we just told them .
The admin say , but how did you know .
The press say , you told us .
The admin say , no we didn't as its a secret and anyone who did tell you is gonna be in deep trouble .
The world says , pull the other one its got bells on .
The admin says , no really this is serious we need to investigate , we need the truth we need justice .
The investigation says , naughty admin , perjury and obstructing justice ,bad admin .

The saga continues .
Oh and add in imprisoning journalists for not revealing their sources , even if the journalists didn't write about the wife , as they knew the story and the sources so they must be guilty right . But since the administration was the source and knew it was the source from the start surely they should have been jailing themselves .

[Xiahou]

All I can say is that the backroom needs search capability. I owe alot of people a big "told ya so".

[Tribesman]

I owe alot of people a big "told ya so".
Really Xiahou , and why would that be .....But officials at the White House also told reporters about Wilson's wife in an effort to discredit Wilson for his public attacks on Bush's handling of Iraq intelligence. Karl Rove confirmed to Novak that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA, and days later offered the same information to Time reporter Matt Cooper.
All this revelation about Armitage shows is that your Administration contains more idiots than was previously thought (if that could really be possible), hardly something for a blind loyalist like yourself to shout about is it .
In fact if you can recall your "told ya so" at the time (as was Gawains)was that nothing had been done wrong , no laws had been broken and Plame wasn't even covered under the covert status protections , so forget your "told ya so" as what you told was false .
Or is your memory failing you

[econ21]

I always liked what I saw of Richard Armitage. He made regular appearances on the UK's Channel 4 news providing a US State Department perspective on current events. The most memorable things about him were his physical appearance - he has an amazingly thick neck and a gravelly voice - he was every inch the grizzled ex-soldier - and how open-minded and candid he seemed. Probably too candid, I guess.

In terms of partisan scoring, Tribesman has just quoted the part of the piece that lept out at me.