Jeff Greenfield has a particularly weak story up on PlameGate with the thesis that the revelation of Armitage as the original Plame source doesn’t mean the investigation is over.  After reciting the historical backdrop in a cursory fashion, here…

http://www.slate.com/id/2148555

William Howard Taft, the State Department’s lawyer who had been told about Armitage (and who had passed on the name to the Justice Department)

also 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.

Read it all..well worth it

Hey AJ. Have you heard about the Wilsons seeking civil damage against Rove and others?

Well with the biggest “no secret” that Armitage is the so-called leaker. Christopher Hitchens calls “Game, over”, and for the part we have been forced to witness so far it is. But there are still so many other questions that …

I sense that Bush, Rove and Libby are the type of guys that dont’t get mad, but do get even.

I would hate to be any of the people I mentioned in the post above.

By the way, if Joe Wilson was worried about the White House seeking revenge before, I would suggest to the rest of the world that there be a lot of distance between you and the former Ambassador.

Hurt these people and make it painful to watch.

I’ll bet that Miller, Cooper, Russert, Mitchell and a whole bunch of other reporters knew that Rove and Libby had nothing to do with the Plame/Wilson leak, yet stood by and watched this whole thing unfold. All the time laughing their asses off as Rove and Libby were caught in this Kafkaesque affair.

All of these people are like rubber necking drivers at a bad accident scene. They are also scum.

AJStrata

How does it feel now, Joe, to know that you’ve clearly and irrefutably been proven to be a grandstanding, cocktail party circuit liar on the issue of the alleged ‘deliberate’ outing of your wife? Money quote from Wilson is a minute 4…