The inadvertency operator

"...I was the inadvertent leak"
-- Richard Armitage.

"Rove may have played an inadvertent role in the disclosure of a covert operative's name."
-- National Review.

"[Libby] told me through a third party that the disclosure was inadvertent on his part."
-- Robert Novak

But the growing body of evidence to date suggests that this was an inadvertent leak that was blown completely out of proportion....
_- Brian Wilson, Fox News

[Armitage] said that the leak had been an inadvertent slip....
-- David Corn, The Nation

The inadvertent disclosure of the name of a business affiliated with the CIA....
-- Walter Pincus, Mike Allen,
Washington Post

Fleischer was horrified when he learned that he had been an inadvertent leak
-- Politblogo, from the Libby Trial.

Armitage said he knew of no plan to leak Plame's identity.
-- Townhall