Woodward did not reveal his source, but insists that when the leaker’s identity is made known, it will be seen as “much ado about very little.” That’s pretty much the same thing that Robert Novak says.

The article suggests that former deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage might be the source of the leak because he was only one of only a handful of people who knew about the information plus his office gave kind of a dodgy non-committal response when asked whether he was the leaker.

Richard Armitage is considered to be a “moderate” because he often sided with Colin Powell and the State Department against the more hawkish Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice. Armitage resigned from the Bush Administration on November 16, 2004, shortly after the 2004 election. That devastates the theory that the outing of Plame was a devious trick by Bush administration “hard-liners.”

What will the wacko left do when it’s only chance for smearing the Bush administration is shown to be a little pile of nothing?