Inspired by ReddHedd, I went and read John Dickerson’s articles about how the White House outed Valerie Plame. I thought it would make things simpler if I made a scorecard that shows the players in the story that Dickerson tells, and the nature of their contacts with the press, as Dickerson describes them:

		Nature of contact with press
	Player	Public	Anomymous
SOAs	Bush	x
	Fleischer	x
	Hadley	x
	Powell	x
	Rice	x
Press	Calabresi
	Cooper
	Dickerson
	Massimo
	Novak
WHIG	Libby		x
	Rove		x
Others	Fitzgerald
	Plame
	Saddam
	Wilson

Of course, the mere fact that the only people who talked privately to the press about Joe Wilson’s carefully unnamed wife were members of WHIG is not proof that a disinformation campaign was going on… But it certainly is suggestive. Eh?