According to Raw Story, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley was the senior administration official who told Bob Woodward that Valerie Plame was a CIA officer. This information came from "attorneys close to the investigation and intelligence officials." Neither Woodward nor Hadley would comment or confirm the story.
Read the Raw Story article here.
See earlier posts: here and here.
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As yet, we don't know what Woodward had to do with it, but, evidently, he had something to do with it. He testified that he was told that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative by three confidential sources who he identified to Fitzgerald. This all came out yesterday. Just another piece of the puzzle--of which there are many. Only Fitzgerald knows how they all fit together.
Robert Novak was the one who first named Plame as a CIA agent in the press, but other reporters--Cooper and Miller--were also told. Obviously, there was some reason administration officials were leaking the name of a covert agent all over the media--most probably to discredit Wilson's story that the white phosphorus from Niger story (which was being used by the administration to sell the war) was bogus. Read the earlier posts linked to this article for more background. A whole lot has happened since Novak.
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