Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has made his opening statement in the Libby trial. He began by describing a White House effort (centered in the vice president’s office) to get back at Joseph Wilson for publishing his New York Times op-ed challenging the case for the war. But when his narrative got to the appearance of Robert Novak’s column revealing the identity of Valerie Plame Wilson, Fitzgerald couldn’t bring himself to say that top State Department official Richard Armitage was the one who leaked Mrs. Wilson’s identity. “One thing should be made very clear,” Fitzgerald told the jury. “Mr. Novak relied on two sources. Neither of those sources are the defendant. Let’s move forward…”