The Source of Plame's Leak or Gossip? Armitage?

Newsweek has an article detailing Bob Woodward's (and Novak) refusal to say who spoke the name Plame to him. But Bob Woodward says that when it all comes down to it, it's much ado about nothing.

But he has repeatedly emphasized on talk shows and in interviews that when all the facts become known, the Plame affair will be seen as much ado about very little. In private conversations with journalists, Novak has suggested the same.

But compared to Chris Matthews of MSNBC "Hardball" had him orgasming all over the screen anticipating that eeeeevil Karl Rove and Libby will get indicted and convicted for leaking the Plame name, and hoping that V.P. Cheney will somehow get the shaft, too. Such a sordid dream of his.

But the interesting thing is that Newsweek is bringing up former Deputy secretary of State Richard Armitage.

He was one of a handful of top officials who had access to the information. He is an old source and friend of Woodward's, and he fits Novak's description of his source as "not a partisan gunslinger. Woodward has indicated that he knows the identity of Novak's source, which further suggests his source and Novak's were one and the same."

For those who don't know Richard Armitage he was against the Iraq war even though he was Colin Powell's right hand man at the time, and had no grudge against Wilson. And if Richard Armitage is the source of the Plame "leak" then, just as Woodward said, all would be much about nothing and it was just the sort of gossip talk in Washington that goes only daily than an intentional smear campaign against Wilson. And if so, most likely at this juncture with Newsweek helping break the story, then certainly the liberals, democrats and the lovable fuzzball Chris Matthews will have eggs all over their faces and belong to this year's most idiotic travails of the democratic scream machines over much ado about nothing.