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<title>Plame was ‘covert’ agent at time of name leak</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The unclassified summary of Plame's employment with the CIA at the time that syndicated columnist Robert Novak published her name on July 14, 2003 says, "Ms. Wilson was a covert CIA employee for who the CIA was taking affirmative measures to conceal her intelligence relationship to the United States."]]></description>
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<title>A Libby Pardon for Christmas?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The seemingly unstoppable imminence of his trial isn't just a problem for Libby; it's an Excedrin Extra Strength-sized headache for George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and their entire senior staff, not to mention the Republican Party. Once the trial begins, the administration will have little or no control over the proceedings. Trials are not conducive to spin. Spin requires secrecy; trials, on the other hand, are decidedly public.]]></description>
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<title>Secret Papers Could Halt CIA Case</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff intends to load up his criminal trial with information about nine national security matters, the names of foreign leaders and details about various terrorist groups, according to court filings in the Valerie Plame leak case.

The papers filed this week hint at what has been taking place behind closed doors as Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald tries to limit the amount of classified data that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is permitted to use at his trial, scheduled for January.

The danger for prosecutors is that the sheer volume and sensitivity of the classified information Libby wants to introduce could scuttle the trial. Once the judge identifies classified information Libby is entitled to present, U.S. intelligence agencies must rule on whether the secrets can be declassified. The trial would collapse if the intelligence agencies refuse to declassify the information.]]></description>
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<title>I'm sorry Karl Rove . . .</title>
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<description><![CDATA[still has a job.

Armitage or no Armitage, Karl Rove damaged national security for petty political reasons in the treasongate affair.]]></description>
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<title>Leopold: FBI Suspected Rove and Libby Pre-Fitzgerald</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Whether Rove and Libby deceived investigators is being revisited because of recent news reports that have suggested they are innocent victims of an overzealous prosecutor. Reports published over the past two weeks have identified former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage, a "moderate" who dissented from Bush's Iraq plans, as the administration official who is said to have first leaked Plame's identity to syndicated columnist Robert Novak. Some editorials have opined that the revelation that Armitage was supposedly Novak's primary source clears Rove and Libby of potential wrongdoing in the matter.

    Rove spoke to Novak about Plame the same day Armitage did, and there has not been documentary proof to show that Armitage's conversation with Novak preceded Rove's.]]></description>
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<title>The Armitage Red Herring</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/The_Armitage_Red_Herring</link>
<description><![CDATA[The very significant news about Armitage


s role in all of this is but one strand in a many-tentacled scandal that has led, among other places, to the office of the Vice President and to the President himself. Attempts to portray this news otherwise are just the latest effort by the right to mute the scandal, which has included questioning whether Plame was really covert and not just a Langley office hand.]]></description>
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<title>What Valerie Plame Really Did at the CIA</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the spring of 2002 Dick Cheney made one of his periodic trips to CIA headquarters. 

Though Cheney was already looking toward war, the officers of the agency's Joint Task Force on Iraq--part of the Counterproliferation Division of the agency's clandestine Directorate of Operations--were frantically toiling away in the basement, mounting espionage operations to gather information on the WMD programs Iraq might have. The JTFI was trying to find evidence that would back up the White House's assertion that Iraq was a WMD danger. Its chief of operations was a career undercover officer named Valerie Wilson.]]></description>
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<title>The Stupidest Trolls on the Internets</title>
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<description><![CDATA[... it isn't especially interesting, it doesn't change the basic narrative at all - Armitage was widely suspected of being that person - and it doesn't magically nullify every other factual revelation about the case, including that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source on Plame.]]></description>
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<title>Media figures repeat false claim that Armitage role in Plame leak exonerates Libby and Rove</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Media_figures_repeat_false_claim_that_Armitage_role_in_Plame_leak_exonerates_Libby_and_Rove</link>
<description><![CDATA[The revelation that Armitage was Novak's original source is not inconsistent with Rove's and Libby's involvements in the leak, as both were reportedly the original sources of the information for at least two reporters during the summer of 2003.]]></description>
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<title>State Department official source of Plame leak</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the source who revealed the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to syndicated columnist Robert Novak in 2003, touching off a federal investigation, two sources familiar with Armitage's role tell CNN.

The sources said Armitage revealed Plame's role at the CIA almost inadvertently in a casual conversation with Novak, and it is not clear if he knew her identity was classified at the time.]]></description>
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<title>Armitage admits being CIA leaker</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Richard L. Armitage, a former deputy secretary of state, did not return calls for comment. But the lawyer and other associates of Mr. Armitage have said he has confirmed that he was the initial and primary source for the columnist, Robert D. Novak, whose column of July 14, 2003, identified Valerie Wilson as a Central Intelligence Agency officer.]]></description>
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<title>Jason Leopold: Robert Novak and the Perfect Stranger</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In an effort to fill in some gaps in the narrative of the three-year-old CIA leak case, Truthout has tracked down the person who may help provide some clues and help answer that question: the "stranger" who was told by Novak on July 8, 2003, that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA - six days before Novak's infamous column that unmasked Plame was published.

When Novak launched into his attack on Wilson and disclosed the ambassador's wife's employment with the CIA, the man was left somewhat speechless, he said.

    "At that point we came to another corner and parted ways," the man said.]]></description>
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<title>Richard Armitage's Role in Plame Case</title>
<link>http://www.newscloud.com/read/Richard_Armitages_Role_in_Plame_Case</link>
<description><![CDATA[Details from the new book, "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War." 

Armitage, a well-known gossip who loves to dish and receive juicy tidbits about Washington characters, apparently hadn't thought through the possible implications of telling Novak about Plame's identity. "I'm afraid I may be the guy that caused this whole thing," he later told Carl Ford Jr., State's intelligence chief.]]></description>
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<title>Plame lawyer plans to force Cheney, Rove testimony</title>
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<description><![CDATA[California attorney Joseph Cotchett plans to use a legal precedent that allowed President Bill Clinton to be sued while in office to force Vice President Dick Cheney and presidential adviser Karl Rove to testify in a lawsuit brought by former CIA operative Valerie Plame and her husband.]]></description>
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<title>Watson, the Plame game is afoot</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Holmes and Watson work the Plamegate affair.]]></description>
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