[7mmMag@LeftCoast]

"One of the best-known investigative reporters in the United States, Woodward revealed last week that he testified under oath to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that a senior Bush administration official told him in mid-June 2003 about CIA operative Valerie Plame's position at the agency."

Maybe I do not get it, how is this not bad for the Administration? Doesn't Woodwards testimony reinforce what Fitzmorris is already after? A high level Administration official 'outing' a CIA official.

The June 2003 time line fits within a month of the Novak story and the calls between Cooper / Miller and Libby.

I would feel much better if Woodward had testified that a former Clinton official or Kerry campaign flunky had told him this earlier than the June 2003 time frame.

[DrC]

The person who told him was Richard Armitage, who along with Colin Powell was considered a moderate within the administration and not part of Dick Cheney's neo-con "cabal." This indicates that the leak was just water-cooler gossip, not part of a vast neo-con conspiracy to out Valerie Plame. Of equal importance, it demonstrates how very far from a thorough or fair-and-balanced investigation Fitzgerald conducted since his narrow focus appears to have been on Dick Cheney's office rather than considering that many in the media and in the Washington social elite actually already knew full well who Valerie Plame was.