Victoria Toensing, formerly a Justice Department attorney and chief counsel for the Senate Intelligence Committee unravels a little more of the story in the WSJ today. A few key excerpts:

Put aside hundreds of thousands of dollars of taxpayer funds squandered on the investigation, New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s 85 days in jail, the angst and legal fees of scores of witnesses, the White House held siege to a criminal investigation while fighting the war on terror, Karl Rove’s reputation maligned, and “Scooter” Libby’s resignation and indictment. By his silence, Mr. Armitage is responsible for one of the most factually distorted investigations in history. …
Now we also know Messrs. Armitage and Novak have vastly different recollections of their conversation. Isn’t that what Mr. Libby was indicted for? …
[S]ince at least early May 2003, Mr. Wilson was discussing his Niger trip with the press (Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times) and claimed in his July 2003 NYT op-ed that his mission was “discreet, but by no means secret.” Yet, the indictment states that around June 9, 2003, the CIA sent “classified” documents to the vice president’s office discussing “Wilson and his trip to Niger.” If the trip was classified for the vice president, why was it declassified for Mr. Wilson? Did Mr. Wilson violate any law by revealing his trip or did Mr. Fitzgerald choose not to know?
Did Mr. Fitzgerald subpoena Ms. Plame? He could have asked her why, if she were truly covert, was she attending an Eastern Shore meeting in May 2003 with Democratic senators. The first journalist to reveal Ms. Plame was “covert” was David Corn, on July 16, 2003, two days after Mr. Novak’s column. The latter never wrote, because he did not know and it was not so, that Ms. Plame was covert. However, Mr. Corn claimed Mr. Novak “outed” her as an “undercover CIA officer,” querying whether Bush officials blew “the cover of a U.S. intelligence officer working covertly in . . . national security.” Was Mr. Corn subpoenaed? Did Mr. Fitzgerald subpoena Mr. Wilson to attest he had never revealed his wife’s employment to anyone? If he had done so, he might have learned Mr. Corn’s source.