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Host, it's been established to a fare-thee-well that it was Armitage who leaked to Novak. Whether that gets Libby off the hook I don't know. It'll come out in the trial. I don't know Ted Wells personally -- I know him only by his reputation, which is excellent, and I know a couple of his law partners -- but I would not be surprised if his story simply is that there wasn't anything to cover up, so there was no reason to lie.
My own view is that this episode demonstrates once again that Special Prosecutors are dangerous. Ken Starr was dangerous, so was Lawrence Walsh and so is Patrick Fitzgerald. It's inherent in the nature of the beast. I can dig out the stories in which it was shown that Fitzgerald knew who the leaker was the day he was appointed - so what, then, was he investigating? Pretty much was Starr was: he was appointed to find wrongdoing, so dadgummit he's going to find wrongdoing.
The rest of this stuff is smoke and mirrors.
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