The Plame affair

Like a three-headed monster in a B film, the Plame affair keeps raising its ugly head. Each time it does, the LAT and other media outlets forget the known facts and repeat the ugly rumors that flew before the facts were known. It was Richard Armitage who outed Valerie Plame (after her husband effectively did that by going public.) This is a fact but it doesn't appear in the reporting. Instead, the newspapers say the "leak" came from Scooter Libby, Karl Rove or Dick Cheney. To the extent there was a "leak," it came from Armitage. This we know.