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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (443551)8/31/2011 3:32:00 PM
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What about Fitzgerald? He knew the leaker was Armitage, yet he pursued the case against Libby.

Here's what I don't get. Colin Powell appeared on Face the Nation and said the following about Cheney's new book:

"Then he goes on to talk about the Valerie Plame affair, and tries to lay it all off on Mister Rich Armitage in the State Department and me. But the fact of the matter is when Mister Armitage realized that he was the source for Bob Novak's column that caused all the difficulty and he called me immediately, two days after the President launched the investigation and what we did was we called the Justice Department. They sent it over the FBI the FBI had all the information that Mister Armitage's participation in this immediately. And we called Al Gonzalez, the President's counsel, and told him that we had information. The FBI asked us not to share any of this with anyone else as did Mister Gonzalez. And so, if the White House operatives had come forward as readily as Mister Armitage had done then we wouldn't have gone on for two more months with the FBI trying to find out what happened in the White House. There wouldn't have been special counsel appointed by the Justice Department who spent two years trying to get to the bottom of it. And we wouldn't have the mess that we subsequently had. And so if the White House and the operatives in the White House and Mister Cheney's staff and elsewhere in the White House had been as forthcoming with the FBI as Mister Armitage was, this problem would not have reached the dimensions that it reached."

Powell was the Secretary of State. He had the information from Armitage and he took orders from the FBI not to share any of this with anyone else? Including the President of the United States who was asking his cabinet, his staff for information about what went on? And he's trying to say that it was the operatives in the White House and Mister Cheney's staff that had not been forthcoming?

If Mr. Powell had been forthcoming than the problem would not have reached the dimensions it did. Armitage went to his boss, Powell, as he should have. Powell should have gone to his boss instead of blaming some underling in the FBI who asked him not to share any of this.
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