Check this out--in the past two days McGovern has been writing articles trying to push the story back to Cheney. After two years of saying this was a smear campaign to intimidate Wilson, he's now veering away from that and saying Wilson came too close to the "truth". Again, trying to put this all back on a Cheney cover-up.
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050718/why_plame_matters.php
http://www.tompaine.com/articles/20050719/cheney_and_plame.php
It could be that McGovern knows this thing is going way off from what VIPS originally plotted it to be--exposing Cheney's super secret rule the world scheme--and is trying to direct it back that way so it's not a total wash. Unfortunately, the press won't seem to cooperate.
It's not just Cheney McGovern's after- VIPS vehemently opposes the Office of Special Plans at the Pentagon.