[Grampa Dave]

"If it were Karl Rove that leaked the story, somehow i dont think all these media elites would be fretting about "revealing their sources"!"

That is great! If Rove was the leaker, they would have had audio tapes, video tapes and Michael Moore would have had a new movie.

[Miss Marple]

Grampa Dave, thanks for posting this excellent story. I, too, believe that this was a plot by the Rats. In the course of their planting the Yellowcake Story, they got too clever by half and thought they could tar the administration with this phony leak story at the same time.

However, the list that Shermy provided looks to me more extensive than simply a few contacts of Wilson's. I am wondering if there is someone else who had the information and loved to schmooze with the press. That someone would be the lizard Richard Clarke.

Since he LOVED to pontificate for the press for hours at a time, it seems to me that he would be likely to drop a tidbit of information as a way of showing how "in the know" he is.

Plus, I have never forgiven him for that insulting lie about Condi Rice, and I would like to see him discredited and ARRESTED.