what we did was we called the justice department. they sent over the fbi. the fbi had all the information about mr. armitage's participation and we called the president's council and told him we had information. the fbi asked us not to share any of this with anybody else, as did mr. gonzalez, if the white house operatives had come forward as readily as mr. armitage did, we wouldn't have gone on for two months. there wouldn't have been a special council appointed by the justice department that spent two years trying to get to the bottom of it, and we wouldn't have had the mess we subsequently had. >> joining me again, valerie plame and her husband, former ambassador joe wilson. it sounds to me colin powell and armitage followed their proper procedure on this. >> well, certainly that's secretary powell's explanation,