Don't miss the obvious here. Whoever the "high Administration official" was, said official went to Fitzgerald and told him that he, "Administration official", had revealed Plame's identity to Woodward. Said official then gave Woodward a release to testify about the conversation. Woodward was stuck. He had to tell Fitzgerald what he knew. As they say in the Guinness ads, "Brilliant!"
Whoever the "high Administration official" was, said official went to Fitzgerald and told him that he, "Administration official", had revealed Plame's identity to Woodward. Said official then gave Woodward a release to testify about the conversation. Woodward was stuck. He had to tell Fitzgerald what he knew. As they say in the Guinness ads, "Brilliant!"
Could it possibly be this administration official was not called to testify prior to the indictment? Yet after the Libby indictment, he came forward because he knew Libby was not the first to tell a journalist?