CBS Exclusive: Interview With Man Who 'Outed' CIA Agent Valerie Plame
CBS) In an exclusive interview with CBS News national security correspondent David Martin, Richard Armitage, once the No. 2 diplomat at the State Department, couldn't be any blunter. "Oh I feel terrible. Every day, I think I let down the president. I let down the Secretary of State. I let down my department, my family and I also let down Mr. and Mrs. Wilson," he says. When asked if he feels he owes the Wilsons an apology, he says, "I think I've just done it."
That was nearly three years ago, but the political firestorm over who leaked Valerie Plame's identity continued to burn as Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald began hauling White House officials and journalists before a grand jury. Armitage says he didn't come forward because "the special counsel, once he was appointed, asked me not to discuss this and I honored his request." "I thought every day about how I'd screwed up," he adds. Armitage never did tell the president, but he's talking now because Fitzgerald told him he could. More on the story..
The timeline is the key to the putting the pieces to the puzzle of this leak case together, folks!
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Armitage is one of many who leaked the name. If all this was so simple why did Rove, Cheney and Libby have to lie. This plan just didn't work now the White House wants to end it with one man. The dates don't match, other reporters were told and the leaked information was still classified at the time. These idiots didn't know that Armitage had gone to the Prosecutor. As for Powell well when he was kicked out of his job Armitage stood by him but I guess Powell is in the pocket of Bush as he lets Armitage hang by himself. So much for friendship at lease Armitage knows what Powell thinks of him.
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