Eat The Press

Armitage Bends To Novak's Will, Fesses Up

NYT |  Meet The Press |  Posted Tuesday August 29, 2006 at 10:15 PM

It's official: Richard Armitage is Robert Novak's mystery source on the Plame leak. Over three years after unwittingly blabbing to Novak that Joseph Wilson's wife was in the CIA and Novak wittingly publishing said blabbery, the mystery that launched a Grand Jury, a vow from President Bush to track down those lawbreaking leakers and run 'em out of the White House, a stream of embarrassing denials from Scott McClellan, all sorts of baseball metaphors and at least one delightful musical parody has finally been solved.

Novak, who took a lot of heat during the Plame investigation for having outed Plame and for refusing to reveal his source (given that the leak was perceived to have been deliberate and a felony), gave a little back on Sunday's Meet The Press, saying that "I think the time has way passed for my source to identify himself." The moral highground sits so comfortably on someone nicknamed "The Prince Of Darkness," doesn't it?