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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
But he did leak (as did Armitage). Why do you think there was only one person leaking? If you were Fitz, would you assume Armitage was the only one? (If you read to Kerr's third paragraph, he says: "Would you conclude without even speaking to other potential witnesses that the one high-level official was in fact responsible for all the leaks, and that he acted accidentally and entirely on his own? Or would you at least want to dig deeper to see if the story checks out?")

In fact, Libby's defense was, in part, that he was leaking stuff. Two years ago, it was reported that he told the grand jury that he was leaking (as was Rove):

• With New York Times reporter Judith Miller's release from jail Thursday and testimony Friday before a federal grand jury, the role of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, came into clearer focus. Libby, a central figure in the probe since its earliest days and the vice president's main counselor, discussed Plame with at least two reporters but testified that he never mentioned her name or her covert status at the CIA, according to lawyers in the case.
  
  His story is similar to that of Karl Rove, President Bush's top political adviser. Rove, who was not an initial focus of the investigation, testified that he, too, talked with two reporters about Plame but never supplied her name or CIA role.
  
  Their testimony seems to contradict what the White House was saying a few months after Plame's CIA job became public. . . .
  
  [B]oth Rove and Libby and perhaps other senior White House officials knew about Wilson's wife's position at the CIA and, according to lawyers familiar with testimony in the probe, used that information with reporters to undermine the significance of Wilson's trip.

There's been no dispute about this for a while.

If he was leaking after it had been leaked, then it seems to me it was already in the public domain and no longer confidential and therefore not actually a leak. It was also not a violation of any law, as Slave and I have been saying for years now. The only illegality here is the perjury, the punishment for which you apparently do not agree.