How's this for a misleading headline: Woodward, others say Bush officials volunteered info on CIA operative.
The defense did show Libby had numerous opportunities to leak Plame's identity to reporters and did not. But none of Monday's testimony went directly to the precise charges that he lied about his conversations with three other reporters about her.
The day's highlight was the tape of Woodward's interview June 13, 2003, with Armitage about how Bush decided to go to war. Armitage's name was never supposed to be connected publicly to what he said. The scandal prompted him to release Woodward from his pledge of confidentiality.
The jurors heard him tell Woodward no less than four times where she worked.
To call Armitage a Bush official may be technically correct, since he served in the State Department during George Bush's term of office, but he was a career public servant, starting back in 1975 as a consultant to the Department of Defense. Trial accounts indicate that the White House, State Department and the CIA were in a feud. In his conversation with Woodward, Armitage was ridiculing the CIA for sending Joe Wilson on a mission at the urging of his wife.
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