The only suspect on the list that's new, to me at least, is Elliott Abrams. Though his name shouldn't come as a surprise. He has a long history in this town, and it ain't for being a pussycat (though I did ride an elevator with him once in Argentina in the late 1980s for, oh, about 30 seconds, and he was very nice).
"Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, has been pegged as a possible leaker of the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to a syndicated columnist, according to a new book by former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, Plame's husband.
In 'The Politics of Truth,' to be published Friday, Wilson says Libby is 'quite possibly the person who exposed my wife's identity,' according to The Washington Post, which obtained an early copy....
'The other name that has most often been repeated to me in connection with the inquiry and disclosure into my background and Valerie's is that of Elliott Abrams, who gained infamy in the Iran-Contra scandal,' he writes. Abrams is currently a Mideast specialist on the National Security Council.
Another suspect named in Wilson's book: White House chief political adviser Karl Rove." - AP
