was there a leak or not? If there was, who leaked it? No one should be above the law, not the aides, not the VP, not the Pres.
Here's the jist of it. Wilson goes to Africa to have cocktails in hotel lounges and look into undermining the administration. He comes back, tells the administration that Saddam was seeking yellowcake. Bush mentions it in the SOTU and Wilson goes to the NYT and tells them that Saddam was not seeking yellowcake, and leads everyone to believe that the administration sent him. They did not. When everyone in the WH reads what Wilson wrote, they say that they didn't send him. His wife, who is in the CIA, arranged the trip. Nothing wrong mentioning that because she wasn't covert, and even if she was, they had no idea. The Nation (Matthew somethingorother) was the first to report that she might have been covert. Their unnamed source - 99% chance was Wilson. Lots of finger pointing going on, lots of reporters talking to WH insiders, etc. Armitage was the one that first leaked it to Novak. Armitage was in the State Dept and no fan of Cheney's group. He was never charged with a damn thing, even though Fitzpatrick knew who leaked it, his target was the VP office. Libby is questioned, doesn't bring an attorney at Bush's request for all his staff since Bush knew they did nothing wrong, another blown bit of attempted goodwill. Libby gets confused where he heard Plame, who was in Vanity Fair a few weeks beforehand and obviously not covert, was in the CIA. He says Fat Timmy Russert told him, but Fat Timmy did not. Libby claims he got mixed up, but Fitzpatrick says he intentionally lied and misled them. To out a covert CIA agent, they have to be covert, you have to know they were covert and intentionally leak it with malice intent. The administration only leaked it, when they had no idea that she was covert, which she was not, because of Wilson's lie that he was sent by the WH rather than Foggy Bottom.
As for pardons, no one here who supports Clinton should give Bush any hell on pardons.
