"Scootergate": Armitage Associates and Halliburton/KBR, Or "The Missing Motive"

[CorpGovActivist]

Richard Armitage, the former Deputy Secretary of State, is being trotted out as the likely principal defense witness for Scooter Libby:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Libby

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Armitage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plame_affair_timeline

Moving on a parallel track is the civil suit that the Wilsons have filed against key players in the leak investigation.

Among the issues that could - should? - come out during Armitage's testimony: the relationship between his firm, Armitage Associates LC (AALC) and Halliburton/KBR, particularly as that relationship pertains to the lead-up to the war in Iraq. Halliburton/KBR's Federal Government practice shared the same address with AALC, and both firms stood to gain quite a bit from a "green light" for Iraq hostilities:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=armitage+associates+%221550+wilson%22+arlington

Laughably, the defense has said that neither Scooter nor his boss had any "motive" to leak: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16770023/

At least one foreign investigation has looked into the Armitage/Halliburton connection: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=french+investigation+halliburton

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=french+investigation+halliburton+armitage

Don't be surprised if the French investigators issue an "interim report" right around the time the Vice President is set to take the witness stand.

- Dave

[seemslikeadream]

1. "The Missing Motive"

kick

[Tatiana]

2. I thought Scooter just implicated Armitage as a leaker of classified information. n/t

[nashville_brook]

3. big honkin' KnR

[spanone]

4. Hot Damn

[yodermon]

5. Auugh! You're back

..and after a DU search I see that you've been back for a while.

Hope you're ok?

And, exciting day today eh? ; )

[CorpGovActivist]

12. Mending, Thanks...

... and yes, exciting day today. Fitzgerald is damn good.

- Dave

[judaspriestess]

6. woohooo!!

I hope these bastards go down in flames.

[annabanana]

7. My My My. . B*shCo is gonna need a

rilly big fig leaf for this one...

How can they keep this from all going mainstream?

[AX10]

8. They are as dirty as a third world dictator.

[hootinholler]

9. Now I've always thought it had to go deeper than simply war profit...

Otherwise, why expose Brewster Jennings? Remember F_wad wrote a second article about B-J.

Was KBR or the big friggin H into nuk-u-lar proliferation? Selling dual use and smuggling the rest?

-Hoot

[conscious evolution]

10. They sure are

http://blogs.salon.com/0002255/2006/10/12.html

Also Halas180,IIRC,posted about this here on DU once.


Another link to the story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/books/chap1/circleinthesand.htm

[seemslikeadream]

11. Dick Cheney - American Judas

Dick Cheney exposed Valerie Plame to cover up his association with A.Q. Khan's Nuclear Walmart. Read about it here: http://s93118771.onlinehome.us/DU/AMERICANJUDAS.pdf

[Laurab]

13. I'm surprised only because I thought they disliked each other

Not necessarily Armitage and Libby, but don't Armitage and Cheney dislike each other? Or, is that perhaps the reason he'd defend Libby? Or, am I getting my criminals confused?

I know Armitage was one of the big PNAC people, but I thought at some point there was a falling out between two camps - his and Powell's, and Cheney's. Am I mistakenly getting my administration criminals confused? It's so damn hard to keep track...