[Phsstpok]

I'm betting (as others in the DBM have suggested) that Armitage was Novak's source. If he were acting on an agenda he would be doing so at Powell's behest. Powell and Armitage had their own agenda throughout their tenure at State. IMHO that is why they are no longer at State.

Novak would be telling the truth about not having talked to his source even with the Powell interview. I do not think he'd be telling the truth to characterize Armitage as not being a "partisan gunslinger" accept in the narrowest bilateral interpretation of that phrase.

His partisanship wasn't Republican nor Democrat. It was Powellian.

[OldFriend]

I can't see Powell or Armitage getting Cheney off the hook by revealing that it was Pflame who sent Wilson.

They'd rather see Cheney twisting in the wind.