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Often these prosecutions turn into fishing expeditions where they try to catch people and get them under and get them tripped up and they contradict themselves and the next thing you know they are being impeached for example. or in scooter libby s case he s going to jail. sean: you mean like sex with an intern. i do have an issue with that so we agree on that colin powell s defense in this situation is that as soon as they found out that he was the one who that armitage was the one who originally was the leak they immediately call the fbi. the fbi came in. they were told not to tell anybody that s his defense. they had done what they felt sean: they were telling his boss? he s saying he was told not to tell anybody. ongoing investigation you are counseled not to share any information that s his defense. sean: mark? but he also said that he ....
That colin powell knew that it was richard armitage. meanwhile, we have a prosecutor, special prosecutor patrick fitzgerald bringing all these people in, some that don t make a lot of money, having to hire lawyers, karl rove is taken to the edge of worrying about being indicted. scooter libby unfairly brought up on charges. and i m looking at this, saying why didn t these men speak out? that s a legitimate criticism. why didn t colin powell and armitage say no, it was me, i was richard? why didn t they do that? that s right. cheney points out something very, very simple in that book. he says a few days after powell learned that armitage, his deputy was the one who leaked valerie plame s name, he sat next to the president of the united states in a cabinet meeting, while the press corp was brought in and barraged him with questions on who was responsible for the leak. ....
That colin powell knew that it was richard armitage. meanwhile, we have a prosecutor, special prosecutor patrick fitzgerald bringing all these people in, some that don t make a lot of money, having to hire lawyers, karl rove is taken to the edge of worrying about being indicted. scooter libby unfairly brought up on charges. and i m looking at this, saying why didn t these men speak out? that s a legitimate criticism. why didn t colin powell and armitage say no, it was me, i was richard? why didn t they do that? that s right. cheney points out something very, very simple in that book. he says a few days after powell learned that armitage, his deputy was the one who leaked valerie plame s name, he sat next to the president of the united states in a cabinet meeting, while the press corp was brought in and barraged him with questions on who was responsible for the leak. ....
eric: that is the shot you ll take? let me defend dana s old boss. 9/11 happened and before then, there wasn t a terrorist attack on american soil. they kept the place safe. whether you like him or not or the weapons of mass destruction information they had, whether they acted on it or not the place was safe for nine years. things started to roll bob: before that, there was only one. somehow that? dana: wait. eric: i was in the building in 93. bob: that was the one. the other was american made, mcveigh. where was the other one? dana: i want to go back to general powell for a second. i think it s interesting how vice president cheney makes people s heads explode. he says i ll explode head and he has been people s pinata for eight years. a charge that is interesting is the piece about armitage and leaking of the valerie plame name. ....
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, ....