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Admits to CIA leak

Washington: The former number two State Department official, Richard Armitage, says he inadvertently disclosed the identity of CIA employee Valerie Plame in conversations with two reporters in 2003. Confirming that he was the source of a leak that triggered a Federal investigation, the former Deputy Secretary of State said on Thursday that he never intended to reveal Ms. Plame's identity. He apologised for his conversations with syndicated columnist Robert Novak and Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward. For almost three years, an investigation led by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has tried to determine whether Bush administration officials intentionally revealed Ms. Plame's identity as covert operative as a way to punish her husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, for criticising the Bush administration's march to war with Iraq.

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