Well, it’s as plausible as any:
Tenet told Cheney about Wilson’s wife. Cheney asked and Tenet answered. Then, in their zeal to discredit Wilson, Cheney’s henchmen blow her cover. An enraged Tenet makes the referral to the Justice Dept. and tells Fitzgerald (from day one) that he told Cheney about Plame. Fitzgerald has been working backwards from Cheney all along.
Now the question is whether Fitzgerald has looked more broadly into the methods Cheney has used to buttress his WMD convictions. As to what Bush thinks about Cheney in this respect, the New York Daily News tells us:
Bush has told associates Cheney was overly involved in intelligence issues in the runup to the Iraq war that have been seized on by Bush critics.
More distancing.
The Dish 