Foolish? How about almost treasonous?
"There was no ill intent on my part, and I had never seen, ever in 43 years of having a security clearance, a covert operative's name in a memo," he said.
Armitage if he "simply assumed that she was not a clandestine officer of the CIA."
"Well, even Mr. Novak has said that he used the word 'operative' and misused it," Armitage said. "No one ever said 'operative.' And I not only assumed it, as I say, I have never seen a covert agent's name in a memo. However, that doesn't take away from what Mrs. Plame said. It was foolish, yes."
Let's assume for a moment he's telling the truth. Why is he talking to a reporter about CIA things? Even if the CIA admits something, just out of personal paranoia, I don't think I would be talking with reporters about CIA activities. It's too easy to get things mixed up and for things like this to happen.
Let's say for a moment he's lying and he leaked her name on purpose. That's a felony that deserves to be punished severely, regardless of political affiliation.
However, if you read through liberal websites and such, they blame Scooter Libby and say that he was the one who leaked the name. But they can't really be faulted with historical revisionism, they are experts at that kind of thing.
Travis
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