inadvertent leak what armitage says. situation with the current white house it was a mistake but one they can't undo without changing the guy's life. >> this is yet another example of incompetene ppetence on the the administration. why did they put out the names at all. why have the names of the base commander or anybody else. there's too much over sharing. we babble about all sorts of thing. they need to stop sharing and to this point oversharing. >> bob, your party went head long into going after scooter libby and karl rove and valerie plame who was not even an operative. >> had a. >> double standard? >> double standard, it was a different time, different situation. look whoever did this, it's against the law to leak the name of a cia zmoosh i'm betting dana is right. i bet it was done inadvertently. >> still someone broke the law. >> put them in jail? >> one thing also that happened is the white house initially -- >> read about it in the newspaper. >> no when they realized the mistake they tried to pull it back. but t

armitage then outleonides what would be a secret mission for the kirk. the remnants of the south vietnamese navy, 32 ships in all, would gather just off the south vietnamese coast. their job would be to rendevous with the ships at dawn the following day and escort them across the south china sea, to safety in the philippines. the following more than as the kirk pulled into view of the island, the sun was just coming up, and what was evident all around them, the 32 ships they expected but what they hadn't expected was what appeared to be a humanitarian disaster in the making. lieutenant hugh doyle likened what he saw to a bun of hershey bars dropped on a hot summer sidewalk and all of them crawling with ants. kirk's co recalled the scene. some of them were anchored, some were not, some were adrift, just loaded with people all the way up to the bridge. i estimated 2,000 to 3 on the people on one ship. i said this is going to be an insurmountable problem. how can we pull this off? just how uss kirk pulled off the rescue of an estimated 30,000 refugees aboar

attorney, new from the beginning it was richard armitage, that did it. he continued to pursue liby and rove and released at the end they had nothing. >> why didn't he say armitage? >> he was into a grant jury investigation to look whether scooter libby had perjured himself in the law. they spent millions of dollars investigating. >> i couldn't agree with you more. scooter libby did break the law. there's no question about that. >> if they wanted to find out, they could find out in an hour. >> they know now. somebody sent this list to the white house. somebody approved it. >> i'm sure they do know but they knew who screwed up on every one of these scandals. >> they are not going to tell. >> they are not going to do anything about it. >> no one cares, nobody is paying attention to the star trek irs video or benghazi or any of these things, fast and furious. it's like -- >> don't worry because tomorrow, the white house is going to talk about concussions in the nfl and this will be very important for the nation. >> let's also not forget the congress of the u

>> it was richard armitage at the state department.esn't say anything to the president here. it goes on for way too long it was an inadvertent leak. >> this is another example of incompetence on the part of this administration as well. why hit up the names of the base commander and anyone else? there's too much oversharing, including that doctor in pakistan, who is now in jail. >> bob, your party went headlong into going after scooter libby and karl rove and valerie plame who was not an operative. double standard? >> it was a different time, different situation. it's against the law to leak the name of a cia -- >> i'm betting this was done inadverte inadvertently. >> somebody still broke the law by putting the thing out there. >> what are we going to do? put them in jail? >> the white house initially tried -- >> we read abohen they read abo the newspaper -- >> there was a lower level military officer, they tried to blame him. you have political appointees, the worst thing that'll happen to them is they'll get a six-figure job somewhere

sooner or later it's going to be -- we know that going back to ireland and italy, richard armitage and scooter libby will eventually take the blame for this. for some people think this was no big deal, if you take a desk job agent in relation to a story that exists in 2001, if you say this is no big deal, then my goodness, you need a lot of apologies to a lot of people and a lot of money put back into the treasury over the investigation that took place during your rein in the white house. >> as soon as i read this today, when i talk about outing the cia agents, i kind of get hives. i lived that story for a long time. i looked up the david brooks column from october 2005, he writes after the investigation is finished that fitzgerald, the special prosecutor did not find evidence to prove there's a broad conspiracy. and yet for this, i think that in some ways, i'm kienled of proud of all of us and the media saying this was a screw up but it was inadvertent. >> it took a reporter to find out it was a screw up. it was scott wilson from the washington post. are you sure you want this on the

administration is important because that was another case where it was inadvertent it was richard armitage who was actually a critic of the iraq war. he was unintentional. he was not trying to out or hurt anybody. the prosecutor knew about that. and, yet, he pursued this with millions of dollars until he got a scalp, scooter libby and helped destroy his career and everybody on the left felt wonderful about this and the media played this story up relentlessly forests were feld to provide the paper with the stories on this terrible leak and she was a desk officer in virginia. this guy is the the station chief in a war zone and i can assure you all of that -- the fake umbrage and fake shock about that we saw in the blame case is not going reoccur here. it was a mistake it does show the incompetence, adolescence incompetence of the administration. this is a mistake so elementary that you don't expect it to be done infantly at the lower. at the white house level and that nobody had caught it on the second time around? and remember the list went out to 6,000 journalists. including americans. >>

that passenger was a man named richard armitage, a 3-year-old civilian. when he came aboard he incongruously dressed for the south sign it -- china sea, he was dressed in a sports coat, tie, and had 45 automatic in a shoulder holster. capt. jacobs said to him i am not used to having armed civilians come aboard my ship in the dead of night upon which our message entered in a very gruff voice i'm not used to coming the board on been a dead of night but i have a job to do. i work for the secretary of defense. on the edge then outlined what would be a secret mission for the kirk. the remnants of the south vietnamese navy, 32 ships in all would gather just off the south vietnamese coast glued to their job would be to rendezvous with these ships. at dawn the following day. and escort them across the south china sea to safety in the philippines. following morning as the kirk cool into view, the sun was just coming up and what was evident all around them, the 42 ships they expected but what they hadn't expected was what appeared to be a humanitarian disaster in t

. >> when richard armitage, he initially leaked your name, the deputy secretary of state.deliberately wanted to blow your cover? >> he wasn't the only one. >> he wasn't the only one. but he was the first? >> yes, he was. he apologized publicly, saying it was very foolish for him to have done so. he's been around washington long enough to completely understand implications of even if you don't know someone's cover status, if they're affiliated with the cia, it's best not gossip about it with other journalists. >> that was a blunder. here, there was a blunder, too, apparently low-level either military or diplomatic officials put the name down on this list that was given to a reporter, submitted as a pool reporter. >> that's right. from what the reporting is, from what i understand, it was on a list drawn up by the military, i'm sure everyone was breathless with the president coming, it was a surprise visit for memorial day, and it was just a really stupid error. >> we know the white house legal counsel's investigating now to see if any crimes were committed. if anyone should