Tuesday, August 22, 2006
PlameGate: It looks like it was Armitage
Tom Maguire picked a bad time to be on vacation without a computer, because I have no confidence in anybody other than him to tell me what I am supposed to make of this:
The No. 2 State Department official met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified that an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.
Official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage held a one-hour meeting marked "private appointment" with Woodward on June 13, 2003.
I admit that I operate at an extremely superficial level in these PlameGate discussions, but I think this confirms that Patrick Fitzgerald's "signal" that there would be no further prosecutions in the Plame investigation is not merely the white flag of surrender, but recognition that the facts do not support the hopes and dreams of the left that the administration committed a substantive crime. After all of this, we are left only with the obstruction of justice case against Scooter Libby, which is less than even Ken Starr came up with.
When are we going to learn that "special" -- meaning "specialized" -- prosecutors are a bad idea?
2 Comments:
By 
ScurvyOaks, at
Tue Aug 22, 10:15:00 AM:
Given Armitage's record of criticizing the decision to go to war in Iraq (and criticizing this Administration generally), this news should represent the collapse of the Democrat/MSM narrative of Plamegate. Anybody disagree?
By Unknown, at
Tue Aug 22, 10:26:00 AM:
