No “little blue dress” here…

It was all much ado about “chitchat.”
And Patrick Fitzgerald knew it all along.
He knew it less than two weeks into the investigation!

From David Corn, ultra-liberal author and commentator:
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.

Armitage told investigators, “"I'm afraid I may be the guy that caused the whole thing."

From Newsweek : The disclosures about Armitage, gleaned from interviews with colleagues, friends and lawyers directly involved in the case, underscore one of the ironies of the Plame investigation: that the initial leak, seized on by administration critics as evidence of how far the White House was willing to go to smear an opponent, came from a man who had no apparent intention of harming anyone.

And also, from a Corn article, Colleagues of Armitage told us that Armitage--who is known to be an inveterate gossip--was only conveying a hot tidbit, not aiming to do Joe Wilson harm. Ford says, "My sense from Rich is that it was just chitchat.

He is also the person that told Bob Woodward.

This is what Corn first wrote, when he thought Bush had been caught actually doing something unethical:

Did senior Bush officials blow the cover of a US intelligence officer working covertly in a field of vital importance to national security--and break the law--in order to strike at a Bush administration critic and intimidate others?
It sure looks that way, if conservative journalist Bob Novak can be trusted.
The Wilson smear was a thuggish act. Bush and his crew abused and misused intelligence to make their case for war. Now there is evidence Bushies used classified information and put the nation's counter-proliferation efforts at risk merely to settle a score. It is a sign that with this gang politics trumps national security.

Well, it isn’t “that way,” after all. And Corn, the prosecutor, and again, the mainstream pop media, let politics and their hatred for Bush trump objective truth .

President Bush did not have scandal, with that woman, Ms. Plame.