You read this sentence carefully? State told the FBI about Armitage, but only told the White House that they had "given information" to the FBI.... State never told the White House about Armitage.
That sentence is very vague, of course. This set up seems so obvious I can't help think it must be anything but and that the fish haven't even started to fry. Unless you're dead on about Powell, that is. Maybe part of why I'm hanging back is because I can't hardly believe he'd be that stupid unless he was supposed to look that way for reasons we don't yet know.