David Corn and Michael Isikoff have a new book which confirms
that Richard Armitage was the original Plame
leaker. Close observers had already figured this out; Tom
Maguire, for one, zeroed in on Armitage months ago. Maguire’s
most recent post on the topic,
noting Armitage’s (vague) association with the McCain campaign
team, came just this Tuesday.
The corollary to this revelation has been equally clear all this
time: Pace the anti-Bush storyline, the Plame kerfuffle
was not a case of the White House intentionally blowing Plame’s
super-secret cover to attack her husband.