From: "George Sherwood" 

After all the hopes of nailing the administration on Plame, it looks like
it was some one that didn't support the war and was a critic of the
Administration that gave out Plame's name.  And still no one was charged,
because this entire case was never about outing a CIA operative. Seems
there was no law broken.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/31/AR2006083101460
.html

Mr. Armitage was one of the Bush administration officials who supported the
invasion of Iraq only reluctantly. He was a political rival of the White
House and Pentagon officials who championed the war and whom Mr. Wilson
accused of twisting intelligence about Iraq and then plotting to destroy
him. Unaware that Ms. Plame's identity was classified information, Mr.
Armitage reportedly passed it along to columnist Robert D. Novak "in
an offhand manner, virtually as gossip," according to a story this
week by the Post's R. Jeffrey Smith, who quoted a former colleague of Mr.
Armitage.

Nevertheless, it now appears that the person most responsible for the end
of Ms. Plame's CIA career is Mr. Wilson. Mr. Wilson chose to go public with
an explosive charge, claiming -- falsely, as it turned out -- that he had
debunked reports of Iraqi uranium-shopping in Niger and that his report had
circulated to senior administration officials.

George

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