Scapegoat
By Linda Chavez
March 9, 2007
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Armitage's role in the affair only became public when Newsweek reporter Michael Isikoff and The Nation editor David Corn revealed it in their book "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War," published last fall. They noted that on Oct. 1, 2003, Armitage notified Secretary of State Colin Powell that he was Novak's source, and that within days, that information was transmitted to the Justice Department.
Yet on Dec. 31, 2003, Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed to find out who leaked Valerie Plame's name to Robert Novak and to determine whether the leak broke the law. It is clear that from the beginning, Fitzgerald's only interest was in directly implicating the vice president in the leak. When he was unable to do so, he decided to punish Scooter Libby for protecting his boss.
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Linda Chavez is the author of "An Unlikely Conservative: The Transformation of an Ex-Liberal." To find out more about Linda Chavez, visit the Creators Syndicate web page at www.creators.com.
COPYRIGHT 2007 CREATORS SYNDICATE, INC.
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