If the complaint and request for an investigation was initiated by Plame's supervisor (or at a relatively low, it could have passed through the various layers of the organization with relative ease. Supervisors/managers at each level might have been reluctant to question the request for fear that they would be accused of a cover-up so it flowed on to DoJ.
I still thing the fact that Wilson was not required to sign a confidentiality agreement is important. Who in their right mind would send someone on a sensitive (classified) mission without some formal and/or legal agreement? In my opinion, Wilson had no authority to release any information that he gained during the mission therefore his op ed compromised classified information.
I asked a couple of days ago if anyone had seen Scott Ritter connected to any of this reporting. With the hiding and moving of WMD that seems to have gone on during the Clinton years, and before this war, I wonder if the CIA has leaks that were benefitting Saddam.
Judith Miller wrote supportive articles in regards to the Bush administration's positions vis-a-vis WMD. I wonder if she may have found some of those leaks...
I wonder if the CIA PTB may have put a sting in place. Could Fitzpatrick be on the trail of a couple of CIA leakers? Their last names begin with W-i-l-s-o-n...
Or maybe I should just confine the use of tin foil to wrapping up fish for the grill... ;-)
Pinz