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To: DMaA who wrote (443697)8/31/2011 4:13:05 PM
From: Nadine Carroll4 Recommendations  Read Replies (2) of 793946
 
Do you think Powel is lying when he says he told the President's counsel?

Yes. Jen Rubin quotes Mike Isikoff, hardly a Cheney fan, who explains what happened in his book Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War:

The next day, a team of FBI agents and Justice prosecutors investigating the leak questioned the deputy secretary. Armitage acknowledged that he had passed along to Novak information contained in a classified State Department memo: that [ Joe] Wilson’s wife worked on weapons-of-mass-destruction issues at the CIA... [William Howard Taft IV, the State Department’s legal adviser] felt obligated to inform White House counsel Alberto Gonzales. But Powell and his aides feared the White House would then leak that Armitage had been Novak’s source — possibly to embarrass State Department officials who had been unenthusiastic about Bush’s Iraq policy. So Taft told Gonzales the bare minimum: that the State Department had passed some information about the case to Justice. He didn’t mention Armitage. Taft asked if Gonzales wanted to know the details. The president’s lawyer, playing the case by the book, said no, and Taft told him nothing more. Armitage’s role thus remained that rarest of Washington phenomena: a hot secret that never leaked. [Emphasis added.]
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