I know I keep making the same point over and over re the Plame/Wilson case. I can’t help myself.

On Fox just now, Brit Hume said that the only significant leak was Dick Armitage’s leak to Bob Novak, which led Novak to write that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative.

But Armitage did not tell Novak (and Novak did not believe or write) that Plame had undercover status. Both thought (as did others around town) that Plame was simply a CIA analyst working in an office at CIA HQ in Langley — which indeed she was.

So the one other significant leak was the fact that Plame was (or had been) a NOC, an agent with Non-Official Cover.

Who first revealed that? David Corn did. What was his source? It was almost certainly Joe Wilson himself.

So there were two significant leaks: one by Armitage to Novak, one by – presumably – Wilson to Corn.

(No significant leaks came from Rove, Libby or others at the White House.)