Presumably, Rich Armitage's name will not be gracing any short-lists for powerful jobs from now on.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Beyond disloyalty

The truth is that Rich Armitage is the consummate partisan gunslinger.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The disloyalists

Of course, Rich Armitage may not be available in any event.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Beyond disloyalty

It was no accident that the people who came under most intense scrutiny thanks to Rich Armitage's disloyalty were presidential advisor Karl Rove and the Vice President's then-chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The disloyalists

Ever since Colin Powell and Rich Armitage were let go by President Bush at the start of his second term, reporters have suggested the latter was under consideration for various senior positions that have subsequently come open.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Beyond disloyalty

Rich Armitage's mean-spirited partisanship is especially evident in the fact that neither he, nor Mr. Powell nor their lawyer, then-State Department Legal Advisor William Taft IV, saw fit to inform the White House that Armitage was the source of the Novak leak.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The disloyalists