If someone from the Bush Whitehouse did leak this I feel certain Bush will want that person found and fired. Bush is not Clinton! I would be more apt to believe Wilson leaked it himself.
Nope your not losing your hearing
Novak indeed said his informant was not from this Administration nor the White House.
Couple that with the admission from Ambassador Wilson,that he got "caught up in the moment" when he alluded to Mr.Rove as being the leaker, and you have a very NON STORY.
You were dreaming.
This is what Novak said on CNN. He was very careful to parse his words. What he said is that no one in the Bush administration called him to leak this, but it was brought up during an intervew with a "senior administration official":
ROBERT NOVAK, CO-HOST: Paul, I have been beleaguered by television networks around the world, but I am reserving my say for CROSSFIRE.
Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this. In July, I was interviewing a senior administration official on Ambassador Wilson's report when he told me the trip was inspired by his wife, a CIA employee working on weapons of mass destruction. Another senior official told me the same thing.
As a professional journalist with 46 years experience in Washington, I do not reveal confidential sources. When I called the CIA in July, they confirmed Mrs. Wilson's involvement in a mission for her husband on a secondary basis, who is -- he is a former Clinton administration official. They asked me not to use her name, but never indicated it would endanger her or anybody else.
According to a confidential source at the CIA, Mrs. Wilson was an analyst, not a spy, not a covert operative, and not in charge of undercover operatives. So what is the fuss about, pure Bush-bashing?
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0309/29/cf.00.html