The 2nd paragraph destroys any credibility to this story. "When Vice President Cheney's chief of staff and other top administration officials wanted to neutralize a critic by disclosing his wife's role at the CIA, they turned to some of the capital's most prominent chroniclers, who -- under longstanding local custom -- promised the leakers anonymity." Except it wasn't the Bush administration that leaked the information. It was a renegade in the State Department. And then we have a quote "This was an obvious case of the administration trying to use reporters to do a smear job on Joe Wilson and his wife." Again, this lie is accepted as truth by the author.