The Valerie Plame Affair: Whodunnit? And Why?

Get thee to OSP and read Mark Kleiman's excellent update on the latest potentially explosive revelations:

This may be remembered as the weekend the wheels started to come off the Bush White House.

In the two months since Robert Novak's infamous column, sourced to "two senior Administration officials, revealed the identity of a covert CIA officer in apparent retaliation for her husband's role in revealing the falsity of the Yellowcake Road story, not very much has happened, and the media silence has been deafening. The White House was stonewalling, with apparent success, and no one had confirmed in print even the basic fact that Valerie Plame's role at the CIA was supposed to be covert.

ntodd