Well, the Washington Post has finally caught up with Newsweek and most of the blogosphere. Richard Armitage outed Valerie Plame.

The leak of information about an undercover CIA employee that provoked a special prosecutor's investigation of senior White House officials came from then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard L. Armitage, according to a former Armitage colleague at the department.

Armitage told newspaper columnist Robert D. Novak in the summer of 2003 that Valerie Plame, the wife of a prominent critic of the Iraq war, worked for the CIA, the colleague said. In October of that year, Armitage admitted to senior State Department officials that he had made the remark, which was based on a classified report he had read.

Gee, didn't I write about this on Sunday?

However, there is one interesting tidbit about the Bush Derangement Syndrome-afflicted Left.

"Just because Armitage did this on his own, earlier, doesn't mean that there wasn't a White House conspiracy to 'out' Valerie [Plame] Wilson. We don't think it affects the case," said Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the group pressing the lawsuit.

In other words, never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory -- or a politicall motivated lawsuit.

Washington Monthly's Kevin Drum tries to keep the anti-Bush fires burning, too.