I never said Libby said that. We have Cheney's own notes.

On the latter document, the Vice President wrote "Not going to protect one staffer + sacrifice the guy the Pres that was asked to put his neck in the meat grinder

Case closed: Bush opportuned Libby to commit the crime and Bush commuted the time.

Madison was very clear this is grounds for impeachment  as previously quoted.

Woodward: Why doesn't that come out? Why does that have to be a big secret?
Armitage: (over) Everybody knows it.
Woodward: Everyone knows?
Armitage: Yeah. And they know 'cause Joe Wilson's been calling everybody. He's pissed off 'cause he was designated as a low level guy went out to look at it. So he's all pissed off.

No, Armitage didn't say she was covert, nor did Armitage say Wilson knew she was covert.

But really. Are you saying Wilson wouldn't have known?? He is her husband.

In fact, she had to have told him when she married him because she was, at that point, covert, living under non-offical cover outside the US.

And we have this

Without acknowledging whether she is a deep-cover CIA employee, Wilson says, "Naming her this way would have compromised every operation, every relationship, every network with which she had been associated in her entire career. This is the stuff of Kim Philby and Aldrich Ames." If she is not a CIA employee and Novak is reporting accurately, then the White House has wrongly branded a woman known to friends as an energy analyst for a private firm as a CIA officer. That would not likely do her much good.

Now. If Wilson did not think his wife was covert, naming her as working for the CIA wouldn't expose a thing.

What I think is that Wilson knew she was no longer covert, and was going for effect. Remember he did that over the forged papers and had to admit he "misspoke" to the Senate Intelligence Committee.

In the end we know that in mid June of 2003, the 13th I think is the date, that Bob Woodward interviewed Armitage and it was recorded on tape.

During the interview Woodward asked why Plame was such a "big secret?"

Armitage responds that everybody knows and that Joe Wilson has been calling "everybody" because he is "pissed" off.

That is a direct statement. Armitage is either correct, or he is not.

Yet, after four years and not quite one month we still don't know.

We do know that Armitage was forgiven for leaking because it was believed that he didn't know.

And the search continued because of "multiple leakers."

Molly, you comment as a lawyer, and we disagree thoroughly over the war on what I believe are philsophical grounds. Because of that you attack Bush. Because of that I support Bush.

But in this matter I would think you would want to know the complete truth. Was Armitage lying? If not, who had Wilson called, and what had he said??

Absent any further information, I am forced to fall back on tools I have used for years. If Armitage was lying, what was his motive?? Remember the interview was 6 months before a SP was appointed. Indeed, it was appointed before Wilson had written his NYT article and before the WaPost article based on Wilson's information, part of which he later admited he had misspoken.

And do we have any other information that indicates that Wilson would tell people his wife worked for the CIA?

Well, we do have the ABC interview in which Major General Valley said this:

Maj. Gen. Paul Vallely told WorldNetDaily that Wilson mentioned Plame's status as a CIA employee over the course of at least three, possibly five, conversations in 2002 in the Fox News Channel's "green room" in Washington, D.C., as they waited to appear on air as analysts.

Now I know you won't like WND anymore than I do KOS, but the man they are quoting is a retired Major General. That doesn't mean a lot in the world of the Left, but people don't get to be Major Generals by being liars. The system weeds them out. Plus:

"He was rather open about his wife working at the CIA," said Vallely, who retired in 1991 as the Army's deputy commanding general in the Pacific.

Vallely made his claim in an interview Thursday night on the ABC radio network's John Batchelor show.

Link

So, don't you think there is enough evidence to warrant a thorough investigation?

Was Armitage lying? Was Maj Gen. Valley lying?

Or are you interested only in attacking Bush?