Scooter Libby wasn’t the source of the leak, yet this article acts as though he was. It was a process crime - the prosecutors knew on day one what had really happened that there was no criminal wrongdoing or malicious activity - but the “investigation” had to continue.
The entire thing was a lie by the media to damage Republicans.
If I remember correctly, Robert Novak said right out that he was the one who first mentioned it, because it was an open secret in DC. People were asking how Joe Wilson got the job of going to Niger and “investigating” if Saddam had approached them about yellowcake, and Novak said, “Well, his wife is CIA and she suggested him.”
Armitage was the “source of the leak” by his own admission, but it was obvious Wilson’s wife was CIA from Wilson’s own idiotic op ed ... as soon as anyone Googled the POS after reading the op ed his Who’s Who and other crap led you to his wife’s association with the company Brewster Jennings - a CIA front company from the days of Aldrich Ames. Doh!