Others are Following BuzzFlash's Conclusion: Armitage is a Bushevik Diversion

September 1, 2006

We were glad to see "Media Matters" confirm what BuzzFlash posted on LibbyDefenseFund.com on August 27th. That is to say that the Armitage "leak" trumpeted by Isikoff and Corn is a diversion from the conspiracy of betrayal in the White House that compromised our national security.

How well-seasoned reporters like Isikoff and Corn could fall for such a red herring is a question worth exploring, particularly since Corn wrote the first column calling attention to the Novak outing of Valerie Plame. But fall for the Armitage diversion, they, apparently, did in the excerpt from their book, "Hubris.

Here is what "Media Matters had to say in one of their two reports on the "scapegoat" tactic:

"Numerous media figures have asserted that a recent report purportedly identifying former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage as Robert Novak's original source for Valerie Plame's identity as a CIA operative prove that Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby were not involved in the leak of her identity. However, Armitage's role as Novak's first source is not inconsistent with Rove's and Libby's involvement in the leak -- both were original sources of the information for two other reporters."

Now that Rove is apparently out of legal jeopardy (although Libby isn't), the White House (as in Rove) are moving to cast history in a new light and revise the prism through which we can judge the facts.

Don't let them get away with it.

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