By now I'm sure most of you heard that Plamegate is over. Former State Department Undersecretary Richard Armitage is the one who "leaked," if you can call the disclosure of a non-covert CIA agent's name a "leak." He also apparently disclosed the information without any sort of malice.

There are going to be a lot of people saying a lot of things about this scandal, so let me just put in these two things.

First, the fact that Armitage was the "leaker" holds no repurcussions for the Bush administration. Sure, Armitage was a member of the Bush administration, but he is no "Bushie." He has routinely stood at odds with President Bush and people like Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Condi Rice and Karl Rove and was no friend to them. He was Colin Powell's man, not Bush's.

Second, what a schmuck Armitage is to have sat quiet about his role in this controversy through years of investigation (costing American taxpayers tens of millions of dollars) that saw reporters put in prison and accusations made against people who were innocent.

Armitage should be ashamed of himself, not because he caused the Bush administration a lot of headaches but because he wasted a lot of taxpayer time and money.