Why Joe Wilson Won't Sue Richard Armitage

Byron York addresses the question of if Joe Wilson will add Richard Armitage to his lawsuit against Dick Cheney, Karl Rove and Scooter Libby. York comes up with the right answer - "NO" - but missed the real reason Wilson won't sue Richard Armitage.

Even though it has been revealed that Richard Armitage was the one to originally "leak" Valerie Plame's name and job to the press - Joe Wilson won't add Armitage to the lawsuit because there's no money in it for him.

Wilson got lots of press and publicity out of his lawsuit filed in July. I'm sure he probably also got a bump in book sales and appearance fees as well. Adding Richard Armitage to the lawsuit won't generate anything near the ready cash for Wilson. In fact most people who buy Wilson's line of BS and who know who Richard Armitage is are sympathetic to him because he was against invading Iraq so naming Armitage could actually hurt Wilson's standing as a Bush-foe.

If there's anything the MSM has taught us its to "follow the money" and the only one to make money out of this tempest in a teacup is the formally unknown Joe Wilson.