Did Armitage Mention Plame to Woodward, After Armitage Talked to Libby?

August 22, 2006

Associated Press Report

"The No. 2 State Department official met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified that an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.

Official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage held a one-hour meeting marked "private appointment" with Woodward on June 13, 2003."

"Woodward's former Post editor, Ben Bradlee, has speculated publicly that Armitage was the reporter's 'likely source.'"

"Armitage's calendar also shows that a week before Woodward's meeting with Armitage, the deputy secretary of state met for 15 minutes with Libby."

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