Clarice Feldman, in a dynamite article at American Thinker, reveals all on Richard Armitage and it isn't pretty. Here is the intro to her article, please read it all. The question I have is why did Richard Armitage and Marc Grossman want so much for us to fail in Iraq that they were willing to commit acts that border on treasonous?
Richard Armitage and the Quiet Death of Liberty TV
October 17th, 2006
All his usual formalities of perfidy were observed with scrupulous technique. -Winston Churchill on Hitler’s Invasion of Russia
Washington offers numerous opportunities for high officials bent on undermining the Will of Congress, as well as the Chief Executive and his explicit, lawful directives. Richard Armitage, as we now know, ignored an express Presidential Directive in the Plame investigation when he failed to notify the White House that he was the source of the leak to Bob Novak.
But that was not the first time Mr. Armitage has disregarded the President’s explicit orders.
Rumors abounded for years that he and Secretary of State Colin Powell regularly undermined the Administration and its plans in countless other ways respecting Iraq. Most of those claims are not capable of proof because they consisted of anonymous information supplied to reporters and others. But one case breaks that mold: the killing of Liberty TV.
Legislation was passed funding Liberty TV, a channel to be aimed at Iraqi and other Arab audiences. The President signed the budget authorizing it to start spending the Treasury’s funds. The political branches of government had spoken. Yet Liberty TV never saw the light of day.
I have offered the Department of State an opportunity to explain why the appropriated funds for this program were never spent and have received no reply. Relying on a GAO report, documents, contemporary news accounts and interviews, I have reconstructed what happened.
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Despite Congressional support, adequate appropriations and the support of two Presidents, the program was never fully funded, and the record shows that the principal reason for this was the animus of Richard Armitage to the INC and the ease with which the bureaucratic apparatus was jiggered to thwart Congressional and Presidential will.
Killing the Program
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