With the latest "news" on this case, several
points should be clearly understood at the
outset. First, Dick Armitage's role was widely
and publicly discussed as early as March,
and second, Dick Armitage clearly screwed
up but was NOT the original source of the leak.
While he does share moral culpability, the
driving force behind the leak came from the
neocon and partisan wings of the White House.
It is their spin, and nothing more, to try to
defend themselves by shifting blame to the
anti-Iraq war Armitage, and to the...
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