Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War2004

former White House council to Richard Nixon:
Senior administration officials is a key to very specifically the president, vice president, cabinet officers and the top of the White house. [They] had gone out of their way to get that information out, not only told Novak, told Time magazine. They wanted that information out. Now, that's against a statutory law that prohibits the identification of CIA operatives. It also has the potential of placing that person in jeopardy because of their operations, and their own operation and people they have operated with in jeopardy. So, it was a very vengeful act against the ambassador [Joseph Wilson] to try to hurt him by hurting his wife's [Valerie Plame] career, if not wishing her physical damage. I have never seen a dirty trick that could be a 'hit.'