[Update: The top-level leaker has not been identified, just Miller's leaker... now onward!...]
Per Reuters:
After 85 days in jail for refusing to name her source, New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified on Friday about conversations with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to a grand jury investigating who leaked the name of a CIA operative.
Legal sources close to the case said Miller, who was freed on Thursday, gave the federal grand jury in Washington a detailed account of two conversations she had in July 2003 with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Granted this isn't exactly news with all the hints thrown out there since Miller's release, but now "sources" (Libby's lawyers) preemptively have revealed this as fact.
So, for whatever reason, maybe because Libby didn't want to see criminal contempt charges levied against Miller for his pathetic ass, he released her from the "agreement" they had.
And, as the diarist below mentions, per NYTimes article, Cheney's involvement is becoming more and more clear:
Excerpted to highlight Cheney's role from an article Saturday in the New York Times. The Times' reporters remark: "Ms. Miller's grand jury appearance increased anxiety in the White House and throughout Republican circles about how the investigation might end." [...]
A lawyer who knows Mr. Libby's account said the administration efforts to limit the damage from Mr. Wilson's criticism extended as high as Mr. Cheney. This lawyer and others who spoke about the case asked that they not be identified because of grand jury secrecy rules.
On July 12, 2003, four days after his initial conversation with Ms. Miller, Mr. Libby consulted with Mr. Cheney about how to handle inquiries from journalists about the vice president's role in sending Mr. Wilson to Africa in early 2002 to investigate reports that Iraq was trying acquire nuclear material there for its weapons program, the person said.
In that account, Mr. Cheney told Mr. Libby to direct reporters to a statement released the previous day by George J. Tenet, director of central intelligence. His statement said Mr. Wilson had been sent on the mission by C.I.A. counter-proliferation officers "on their own initiative."
Mr. Wilson wrote an Op-Ed article in The New York Times on July 6, 2003, saying that "some of the intelligence related to Iraq's nuclear weapons program was twisted to exaggerate the Iraqi threat," and that his mission to Africa had been set in motion because of questions that Mr. Cheney's office had put to the C.I.A. The account, which Mr. Libby has provided to the grand jury, portrays his conversations with journalists as intended not to leak Ms. Wilson's name or to smear Mr. Wilson, but to distance the vice president from the criticism raised by Mr. Wilson.
A spokesman for Mr. Cheney, Stephen E. Schmidt, said he could not comment because of the inquiry.
The investigation has found that at least two senior White House officials, Mr. Libby and Karl Rove, President Bush's political strategist, spoke with reporters about Mr. Wilson's wife and her employment at the intelligence agency in the week after the publication of the Op-Ed article. People who have been briefed on their accounts have said the officials did not know of Ms. Wilson's status and did not supply journalists her name.
Cheney directed Libby to out Plame and he damn well knew that she was undercover, but his precious WMD lies were more important, even more important than the entire Bush presidency.
Cheney might go down and, if that happens, Bush will go down with him. There WILL NOT be a Cheney resignation without a Bush resignation, especially when Bush's brain, Rove, was in on it.
Rove's involvement means that Bush was in on it.