Bob Novak's Plame Source Identified

By David Corn, TheNation.com. Posted August 28, 2006.

Conservative columnist Bob Novak's first source on the identity of Valerie Plame in 2003 was former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage.

One mystery solved.

It was Richard Armitage, when he was deputy secretary of state in July 2003, who first disclosed to conservative columnist Robert Novak that the wife of former ambassador Joseph Wilson was a CIA employee.