136^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. October-November 2005   As the grand jury and agency investigations of the CIA leak matter draw to a conclusion, it becomes clear in retrospect that top figures in the administration calculated that the best way to get the Valerie Plame ‘nepotism’ line out would be to ‘leak’ it from the top to the top. They chose two of the most prominent reporters in the United States, Judith Miller of the New York Times and Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, on the assumption that when the ...   more »