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You wrote, "Exclusive details are this: Wilson himself leaked the name to the NY Times reporter."

I like that,and no doubt to puff himself up, the arrogant Joseph Wilson would smooze up NYTimes reporters with tantilizing, self-serving tidbits. But remember, Judith Miller was roundly criticized by her liberal media cohorts. They blamed her for aiding and abetting the Bush administration's justifications for going to war, with her articles that buttressed the threat of WMDs. I don't think Wilson or his wife, or any anti-Bush faction within the CIA, would leak to Judith Miller.

Novak described his leaker as "not a political gunslinger". That's Colin Powell...to a tee.

Read Robert Novak's column from October 1, 2003 and see if you don't agree, this has Colin Powell written all over it. I think The New York Times (and Judith Miller) would go to great lengths to protect Saint Colin.

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml

Here's part of it: "During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger.

When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue."