Also from the WP:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460.html
WE’RE RELUCTANT to return to the subject of former CIA employee Valerie Plame because of our oft-stated belief that far too much attention and debate in Washington has been devoted to her story and that of her husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, over the past three years. But all those who have opined on this affair ought to take note of the not-so-surprising disclosure that the primary source of the newspaper column in which Ms. Plame’s cover as an agent was purportedly blown in 2003 was former deputy secretary of state Richard L. Armitage.
Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported the invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the White House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr. Wilson accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to destroy him. Unaware that Ms. Plame’s identity was classified information, Mr. Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak “in an offhand manner, virtually as gossip,” according to a story this week by the Post’s R. Jeffrey Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr. Armitage.
Plame’s identity was as classified as the sanitation engineer’s. She drove through the front gate everyday. This was a setup from the first. The President’s mistake is that he didn’t hammer traitors in a time of war
I detest Armitage, and I dislike Novak just as much.
I gave money to Scooter Libby’s defense fund, which he should never have needed because of the actions of the arrogant testicle-less weasels Armitage and Novak.
They let an innocent man’s life get ruined, for WHAT? It just pisses me off.