Bring It On!

So why wasn’t he arrested on sight

August 27th, 2006 | by Craig R. Harmon |

and the Plame leak investigation wrapped up immediately?

Richard Armitage was the “senior administration official” who leaked Plame’s name and that she worked at the CIA. This was known by the Department of Justice on October 1, 2003. Let that sink in for a moment. The investigation that is more than two and a half years along with no end in sight, the only arrest in which has been someone who was NOT the leaker in the investigation begun to determine who leaked Valerie Plames name and work affiliation, the investigation which sent a New York Times reporter to prison for months, and which has cost us how many millions of dollars could have been wrapped up on day one since the DOJ knew Armitage was the leaker several months before Fitzgerald opened the official investigation.

So let’s recap. No one in the White House staff was the leaker. Not the Vice-President. Not Rove. Not I. Lewis Libbey. It was not leaked to damage Wilson, since Armitage apparently agreed with Wilson much more than he disagreed with him (if he disagreed with Wilson at all). It was not a plot, it was a slip of the tongue (or rather, several slips of the same tongue to several different reporters) by a known gossip (so how does a known gossip get to be a senior administration official in the State Department, a department that is supposed to be about diplomacy (or is running off at the mouth about things that one shouldn’t be talking about the “New Diplomacy”?)? It was all just a stupid bit of blather that someone who was used to blathering should not have blathered.

So if Armitage was known immediately to have been the leaker, it was determined almost immediately that Armitage was not going to be charged with the crime that originally was to have been what the investigation was all about, then why is there still an investigation more than two and a half years later?

I ask you.

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