"Since this week’s disclosures about Mr. Armitage’s role, Bush administration officials have argued that because the original leak came from a State Department official, it was clear there had been no concerted White House effort to disclose Ms. Wilson’s identity.
But Mr. Fitzgerald’s defenders point out that the revelation about Mr. Armitage did not rule out a White House effort because officials like Mr. Libby and Karl Rove, the senior white House adviser, had spoken about Ms. Wilson with other journalists.
yes, and those "other journalists" knew who Wilson's wife was BEFORE talking with Rove and Libby - and likely lied about that during their GJ testimony. they were the bait for the perjury trap to come later.
Valerie Wilson's cover was blown in July 2003. The first sign of that cover being blown was when Mr. Novak published a column on July 14th, 2003.
But Mr. Novak was not the first reporter to be told that Wilson's wife, Valerie Wilson, Ambassador Wilson's wife, Valerie, worked at the CIA. Several other reporters were told.
In fact, Mr. Libby was the first official known to have told a reporter when he talked to Judith Miller in June of 2003 about Valerie Wilson
Fitzgerald knew this wasn't accurate. His comments about Libby's indictment were extremely misleading and very deliberate.
Fitzgerald needs to be fired, disbarred and then tried for sedition and abuse of his powers.
What a miserble rotten POS, Fitzy is. He and the NY AG, Spitzball, are poster girly boys for left wing/vicious attorney's who use their power to push liberal agendas.