Haven't heard the last of the Plame leaks

When Richard Armitage turned out to be a source of the Valerie Plame leak, right-wingers with audible sounds of relief suggested that, whew, he was just being talkative, so there was no plot to get even with Joe Wilson for his New York Times disclosure (debunking the famous yellowcake line in Bush’s 2003 State of the Union speech). Because of Armitage’s having served with Colin Powell at State, which by association would make him an opponent of Cheney, we could all rest easy that there was no such plot – just the ramblings of a known blabbermouth.

Some such as Kevin Drum at Washington Monthly noted that Cheney’s notes scribbled on a copy of Wilson’s op-ed, along with the repeated Scooter Libby leaks that he felt the need to lie about to the FBI, is a strand of apparently intentional disclosure of a CIA agent’s name that does not go away with the Armitage revelations. But here is an excellent article also showing there was a lot more to Richard Armitage than being a buddy of the alleged good-guy Powell – like heavy duty Iran-Contra involvement not resulting in prosecution because the prosecutor, despite substantial evidence of guilt, did not have confidence he could meet the reasonable doubt standard, and being a signatory to the original Project for a New American Century letter to Clinton – the Neo-Conservatives’ Communist Manifesto that promoted war in Iraq as a way to assert America;’s world dominance.

Check it out at http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/9/10/1234/71405