My review of former top CIA lawyer John Rizzo’s book Company Man appears in the current issue of this magazine. A friend in a high place who read the review pointed out to me that the book adds something significant to our understanding of the Valerie Plame, Scooter Libby, Richard Armitage, Judith Miller, Robert Novak imbroglio.

Rizzo is evidently the first CIA official—and he was a high ranking one—to go on the record to acknowledge that the leak to columnist Robert Novak of the fact that Valerie Plame was a CIA employee, thereby blowing her undercover status, was not exactly a blow to America’s intelligence collection efforts.