m II wrote:
D Peter Maus wrote:
m II wrote:
RHF wrote:

Better ot have a "Gut Feeling" : Then to reveal your 'sources'
and have them killed and and end-up without any sources. ~ RHF

So..the releasing of Valerie Plame's identity by the Bush Administration
was a BAD thing, right?

The releasing of Valerie Plame's identity was by Richard Armitage,
who told it to Carl Novak. Confirmed by both Armitage and, once it was
out, Novak.



I see..no connection at all to the Bush people...I was mistaken.



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"Richard Armitage, the current Deputy Defense Secretary, was another
Iran-Contra player in Unocal's employ. A former Navy SEAL, covert
operative in Laos, director with the Carlyle Group, Armitage is
allegedly deeply linked to terrorist and criminal networks in the Middle
East, and the new independent states of the former Soviet Union
(Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Kyrghistan). Armitage was no stranger to
pipelines. As a member of the Burma/Myanmar Forum, a group that received
major funding from Unocal, Armitage was implicated in a lawsuit filed by
Burmese villagers who suffered human rights abuses during the
construction of a Unocal pipeline. (Halliburton, under Dick Cheney,
performed contract work on the same Burmese project.)"

http://www.btinternet.com/~nlpwessex...cheneyasia.htm
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Now look at his record. He worked for Powell, no fan of Bush.
Armitage, himself was no fan of Bush and complained bitterly about both
the war, and his international policies. And his first call when Novak
published the piece was to Powell. Not to Bush, not to Cheney.

Armitage revealed this himself.



You're very good at making your feelings known about the
Administration, but this event, specifically, the outing of Valerie
Plame was not an administration action. It wasn't sanctioned by the
Administration. It was a slip made, actually some years before Novak
published the article, By Richard Armitage. Not by the Administration.

Armitage, outing Valerie Plame, was not acting on behalf of the
Administration, by his own admission.

Any more than you are acting on behalf of your employer in your
postings to USENet.