Comments on: Armitage On CIA Leak: 'I Screwed Up'

CBS Exclusive: Interview With Man Who 'Outed' CIA Agent Valerie Plame

[ncknight05]

ITS SO BLATANTLY OBVIOUS...CBS..NBC..ABC PMSNBC.. NY TIMES..WASHINGTON POST..ALL OWE KARL ROVE A LOUD AND PRONOUNCED APOLOGY FOR WRONGLY CONVICTING HIM IN THE ARENA OF PUBLIC OPINION.ITS NOW SO OBVIOUS THAT ALL OF THE ABOVE MENTIONED ARE ON THE DEMOCRAT PAYROLL TO PROMOTE THAT SOCIALIST PARTY AND DEFAME PRES BUSH.

SINCERELY
RIC STARNES
NC

[gkantor]

Softball by CBS.
What an interview. Mr. David Martin did'nt know that the same was told "casually" to Bob Woodward? This is just plain junk. Shame.

[tarheelsram]

I want the special prosecutor prosecuted for
1. continuing to spend tax dollars to investigate the source of the news article revelation when he knew from the start who that source was, and
2. for tying up government officials with this frivolous investigation for years...keeping them from doing their normal important duties and forcing them to spend unnecessary monies on lawyers and
3. for placing people, whom he knew were not guilty of the focus of his investigation, in judicial jeopardy with obvious entrapment schemes!
Fitzgerald%u2019s Nifong (Duke Lacrosse rape case dunce) like tactics are totally un-American! He is, at the very least, guilty of judicial misconduct in my humble opinion...not as an expert, just on the basis of common sense and decency!
Tommy Flores,
Goldsboro, NC

[hogdriver91]

AARRUUGGHH! Fitzgerald knew it all along, why is he still investigating. This was a non event, she was NOT covert, there was no outing, nor intent to out her. The media ought to be ashamed as well for keeping it alive when they knew nothing wrong was done. There is a bit of Bush hate in the whole event as well.

[rock_cha1k]

efallah and isaacroll or obviously part of the fringe left and listen to too much Air America. To clarify a couple thinks for you knucklheads....First, Armitage hates the administration, he was a hold over from Clinton. The state department in general(prior to Dr.Rice), was at odds with the administration, including Powell. In regards to lying to Fitgerald, a prosecuter can not entrap a witness when they know they are innocent. Libby couldn't have possibly "outed" plame because her name was already known, and thus he should not have legally asked Libby if he was the source for Novak, with the knowledge that he was not. This activity is known as prosecutorial misconduct. Get a brain.

[mldetch]

At least Armitage as ashamed of what he did but Fitzgerald should be more ashamed for wasting 3 years and millions of dollars when he knew the truth within weeks of the start of the investigation and order Armitage to keep quiet. THAT%u2019S THE CRIME. Blumenthal should be ashamed for convicting Karl Rove in the court of public opinion and the media should be ashamed for being, once again, the liberal left's lap dogs, instead of doing what they are supposed to do. Follow the facts and uncover the truth. Not take sides and run with innuendo.

[rock_cha1k]

Obviously the person who posted the comment referring to Ken Starr has a short memory as well. Every time ken starr requested documents the Clintons delayed, in hopes to cause enough delays that his appointment would run out. Also there was somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 indictments handed down. And if you are truly so intellectually inept that you believe the Clintons were innocent, then I have a bridge for sale.

[bedgiant]

President Bush should pardon Sen. Charlie Schumer. He was the leader in special prosecutor requirement.
Since Schumer will not apologise that he knew the Armitage connection. He could be indicted for obstruction of justice. A pardon would avoid further litigation.

[pwrslm]

The Special Investigator knew of this and still failed to conclude the investigation. Isnt that a crime? Like withholding evidence in a capital case?

Then they investigate members of the White House, with full knowledge of how the leak occured, slandering and ruining carreers of how many people?

That is a crime.

Investigating Clinton wasnt.

[murthacoward]

Armitage is a horrible human. He let his President and administration suffer all kinds of slurs and injustices and just sat there silent. Now, when he's caught, he's sorry! And what about Chucky Schumer; talk about a pathological liar. Does no one remember him frog marching arm-in-arm with Joe Wilson to numerous Press Conferences to slander the President and Karl Rove. The "Main Stream Media"; what an inept and scurrilous bunch they are.

[coxd3]

Too late Armitage. You are a coward and a treasonous scoundrel. Knowing what you knew and standing by watching careers and families and individuals being ruined all in a time of war, all along knowing full well that full and open disclosure would have likely stopped or impeded the Fitzpatrick circus. I hold you and Fitzpatrick in contempt. You should both be charged and fined the cost of reimbursing the government for waste, fraud, and abuse.

[dhslough]

I have a simple question. Why aren't those in the media questioning why Mr. Fitzgerald asked Mr. Armitage not to disclose that he (Armitage)was the one who "innocently" leaked Mrs. Wilson's name? If if was all a misunderstanding, it appears that this could have been wrapped up within a short period of time. Appparently, from your interview with Mr. Armitage, he was willing to "talk" without the need for an attorney because all he was going to do was speak the "truth".
Finally, to those who are so opposed to everything that America does in the war on terror, why don't you consider moving to the country of your choice, that way, it will be much easier for you to "kiss the ***" of those petty dictators!!
Long live America and may we all Thank God for our men and women of the Armed Services!!!
And Thank God for a leader such as President Bush who understands the true evil that exists in this world and is willing to do everything within his powers to destroy it while the only things that the Democrats, the press and liberals do is "whine". Grow up you BIG LOSERS.....

Dwight H. Slough, MBA

[gramto7]

I have read all the posts and cannot believe the number of people who are upset about the current 'special prosecutor' and his length of investigation. Has everyone forgotten Ken Starr and his overly-long investigation of Whitewater? For years after he found out that neither Bill nor Hillary could be charged with anything to do in that mess, he kept on 'investigating' things that had nothing whatsoever to do with Whitewater! It was a LONG time after he should have finalized the investigation before he 'found' the Monica ordeal.

[jerryemt2001-2009]

So CBS thinks Armitage owes the Wilsons an apology but not the Bush administration who were raked over the coals over this matter by the mainstream press especially Newsweek and the NY Times? Wilson is a pompous know nothing. Hey, CBS: can you get reporters who actually see the entire picture?

[evotelution]

Friends, Citizens, contimplate how someone would know a CIA agent? The source will set you free in this. He is a fall guy for the CIA. This is just another cover up. Bush's father was CIA, Bush is a product of CIA. This guy is a scapegoat for the CIA. He is CIA. How stupid can americans continue to be. We deserve our plite.

[jalexson]

This revelation proves that the whole investigation has been a farce from the beginning. In order for an agent to qualify from legal protection the government has to acting to prevent discovery that the agent has an intelligence connection to the U.S. Plame married to a former ambassador. the job of ambassador includes gathering intelligence about foreign governments. Joe Wilson admitted in the N.Y. Times that he had worked for the CIA. The idiots at the CIA may be too dumb to understand that spouses of admitted intelligence gathering agents have an intelligence connection to the U.S. People in most unfriendly countries are going to treat an ambassador's family as suspected spies.

Another problem with the claim that Plame was a covert agent is the fact that she worked at CIA Hq. and she apparently didn't enter the building through a secret entrance in a tailor shop (Man From U.N.C.L.E.) or a phone booth (Get Smart).

[angeby]

"What are you TALKING about "saving Bill Clinton?"

The man LIED to Congress. Nothing else matters. He broke the law. Whether or not he needed to is nobody's business but his own; the man got caught doing what crooked politicians do.

And now he should pay for it."

Wow. If only that happened with EVERY POLITICIAN out there. The problem is, no one is willing to even REMEMBER what our politicians do from day to day, let alone punish them for it. The only ones who seem to care are those who are more interested in partisanship than truth. They keep pointing out the flaws of those they disagree with while completely ignoring the flaws of people they agree with politically. Those who want to educate themselves on modern political philosophy should read Schopenhauer's "38 ways to win an argument." And watch and wait for it ALL to show up in the next election cycle.

[jamesod2-2009]

Bah! Armitage is a weasel, he and his former boss at the Dept of State, Powell, are both weasels, else why would the two of them have kept their yaps shut while Fitzgerald played out his farce of an inquiry? And Fitzgerald, that mountebank should be forced to pay all the expenses he and his staff incurred from the time Armitage told him what he had done -- near three years worth of our tax money. These people, all three of them, are almost as dishonest as Plame and her sweet hubby, "former" (why ever?) Ambassador Wilson, and their companions in crime -- the loud mouthed, unlovely Main Stream Media, in toto.

James O. Dirden
CSM, U. S. Army
'44-'49/'50-'73

[effallah]

Hey Ditto Head,

Be carefull what you wish for. Opening hearings would only result in the discovery of the fact that there was no reason for armitage to mention mrs. wilson other than the fact that he was directed to do so by rove and cheney.

[safecents]

One liberal wrote here that 9/11 was too important to show a docu-drama that had a little bit of artistic license.

How much do you want to bet this same complainer saw Micael Moore's Farenheit 9/11 a dozen times and believed ever distortion in it?

Oh I get it, as long as it attacks the Republicans then it is OK to tell a lie.

There should be another criteria....if you STEAL top secret, original documents out of the 9/11 commission room you should not be able to complain about ANYTHING. Maybe those secret documents that Sandy "the burglar" Buergar SLOPPELY shoved down his pants contained proof that Clinton was too busy with Monica to wage a war on terror nad turned down an opportunity to kill or capture Bin Ladin.

I thought progressives were against censorship.

Both sides play partisian politics but I have never seen the right actually put the national security of the country and the safety of the American people at risk, like I am seeing the democrats do today.

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