The Daily Background

Yesterday I wrote briefly in a Bits and Pieces article about possibile ongoing quiet activity regarding the CIA leak case, linking to a new Jason Leopold article in which he holds his ground on his earlier story. Incidentally, in another small rustel of activity in a case which has been largely silent for the better part of two months (aside from the news that the Plame-Wilsons are planning to sue several White House officials), Associated Press sent a story over the wires late last night.

The article, titled “Calenders show Armitage met with reporter” reads:

Then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage met with Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward in mid-June 2003, the same time the reporter has testified an administration official talked to him about CIA employee Valerie Plame.

Armitage’s official State Department calendars, provided to The Associated Press under the Freedom of Information Act, show a one-hour meeting marked “private appointment” with Woodward on June 13, 2003.

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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.

That meeting occurred as State officials were about to prepare a report outlining how Plame’s husband was sent to Niger before the Iraq war to check unverified intelligence that Iraq was seeking nuclear materials from Africa.

Administration officials claim the meeting was on a purely unrelated matter. Armitage is said to be cooperating with Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. We’ll see if this makes news. Full article.

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