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SW: Armitage
'''Richard L. Armitage''', who Beginning March 2005, Richard L. Armitage became President of [[Armitage International]]. Armitage served as Deputy Secretary of State during President [[George W. Bush]]'s first term, has emerged as a key witness in the [[CIA]] [[Treasongate: Beyond Karl Rove|leak probe]]," Kenneth R. Bazinet and James Gordon Meek [http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/419364p-354152c.html reported] in the May 20, 2006, ''New York Daily News''.
"Armitage has been questioned several times, but is not expected to be indicted by the federal grand jury investigating who outed CIA spy [[Valerie Plame]] to journalists in 2003, sources said." However, Armitage's "testimony could hurt" [[I. Lewis Scooter Libby]], Vice President [[Dick Cheney]]'s "indicted former chief aide," or [[Karl Rove]], President George W. Bush's "political guru," Bazinet and Meek wrote. "Two sources familiar with the case said Armitage, Rove and Libby all had contacts with the press about Plame. Unlike Rove and Libby, Armitage appears to have tried to dissuade reporters from writing about her."