As of July 6, 2003 Armitage and Powell stuill hadn't contacted the White House about Armitage's big mouth...
For a year and a half after this story became a major public relations problem for the administration, Colin Powell continued to serve as Secretary of State without letting anyone know that it was his assistant, Armitage, who was the source of the leak. That's almost reason enough for Hillary to offer Powell the VP slot in 2008.