It appears that Richard Armitage, Colin Powell’s second-in-command who is widely reputed to have been a skeptic about the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, was the original source for Robert Novak’s outing of Valerie Plame Wilson’s identity as a CIA operative.
But the Wilsons’ attorney, Melanie Sloan of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, said the revelation that Armitage was the original source for the leak did not undercut the charge that Vice President Dick Cheney, Cheney’s former chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby and White House adviser Karl Rove acted to retaliate against Wilson by engaging in a “whispering campaign” about his wife.
The couple plans to proceed with the lawsuit, Sloan said.
“Mr. Armitage’s conduct does not change the facts of what Libby, Cheney and Rove did,” Sloan told CNN. “The case is about the abuse of government power.”
I thought Brando was dead.
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From CNN