RICHARD ARMITAGE.
It turns out they knew this withing days, but kept up their witch hunt for years.
GWB let this one fester. The CIA was putting the business to him, and he didn;t dare push back. If he had half a spine he would have ordered CIA to disclose if Plame was NOC. If not, no crime possible, end of ordeal.
The CIA is one corrupt operation, bigly.
That’s why I call Valerie Plame the Poster Girl of witch hunts. Everything in her name reveal could have been resolved within days. Instead, Patrick Fitzgerald conducted a multi-million dollar, multi-year politically motivated witch hunt investigation when the perp was known to him from the get-go.