From: "Gary Britt" 

Now somebody needs to do the right thing and drop the trumped up charges
against Scooter Libby.

Gary

"George Sherwood"  wrote in message
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> After all the hopes of nailing the administration on Plame, it looks like
> it was some one that didn't support the war and was a critic of
> the Administration that gave out Plame's name.  And still no one was
> charged, because this entire case was never about outing a CIA operative.
> Seems there was no law broken.
>
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR20060831014
60.html
>
> Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported
> the invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the
> White House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr.
> Wilson accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to
> destroy him. Unaware that Ms. Plame's identity was classified information,
> Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak "in
> an offhand manner, virtually as gossip," according to a story this week by
> the Post's R. Jeffrey Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr.
> Armitage.
>
> Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end
> of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public
> with an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he
> had debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his
> report had circulated to senior administration officials.
>
> George

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