[My2Cents]

I doubt it came from the Administration.

But I wonder how Bush saying they may never find out takes the pressure off of the clammering for a special prosecutor.

[larryjohnson]

Some CIA dude dood it.

[ex-snook]

If Bush can't find out, it makes the special a necessity.

[Thor_Hammar]

I also doubt the leak came from inside the White House. Notice that the probe has expanded to include the Department of State and the Department of Defense. If the person or persons who leaked the name works for the White House or the State Department or the Defense Department, that individual will be caught.

But who has been claiming the individual is inside the White House and is specifically Karl Rove? None other than Joe Wilson, a DemocRAT operative. (Oops! Can I say "operative"?) Remember that Robert Novak said he did not learn of Palme from Karl Rove and he seems to have denied hearing her name from anyone associated with the White House.

What agency had the most people who might know Palme worked at the CIA as an analyst? What agency might have people who knew how Joe Wilson was picked for the fact-finding junket to Niger (and note that British intelligence did not claim Niger was a country from which Iraq attempted to purchase Yellowcake, only that it was an African nation, and there are many African nations with uranium mines.)? And what agency has career civil servants who might have been more than upset that the CIA was hiring a consultant rather than using its own people to investigate any potential Niger-Iraq Yellowcake connection?

Bingo! The answer is" The Central Intelligence Agency.