[txrangerette]

So has Colin Powell served during
both administrations, and could be
descibed as apolitical like Tenet,
who is a Democrat, I understand.
Rush seems to think State is the
problem...

Powell the leaker? or a Dep. Sec.?

[hobbes1]

State is the problem.

Novak differentiates between CIA and 'senior administration officials', Wilson's OpEd says he was debriefed at State, though the CIA paid, and TIME magazine, puts it this way

And some government officials have noted to TIME in interviews, (as well as to syndicated columnist Robert Novak) that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. These officials have suggested that she was involved in her husband's being dispatched Niger to investigate reports that Saddam Hussein's government had sought to purchase large quantities of uranium ore, sometimes referred to as yellow cake, which is used to build nuclear devices.

Government officals, Not Administration....= State.
(Keep in mind that Novak likes to play himself off as an Administration insider...)

[swilhelm73]

So has Colin Powell served during both administrations, and could be descibed as apolitical like Tenet,

Could be, but reading Novak's article, I get the feeling that his source was rather angry about Plame's apparently unauthorized sending of Wilson. The most likely person to be angry about this sort of thing? Head of the CIA, Tenet. Also, Novak mentioned talking to Tenet - so we know he did talk to him...