Yeah, Larry, they decided to "reveal" this for the umpteenth time.
Here's a liberal column from over a year ago:
March 8, 2004
President Bush's chief political adviser, Karl Rove, told the FBI in an interview last October that he circulated and discussed damaging information regarding CIA operative Valerie Plame with others in the White House, outside political consultants, and journalists, according to a government official and an attorney familiar with the ongoing special counsel's investigation of the matter.
But Rove also adamantly insisted to the FBI that he was not the administration official who leaked the information that Plame was a covert CIA operative to conservative columnist Robert Novak last July. Rather, Rove insisted, he had only circulated information about Plame after it had appeared in Novak's column. He also told the FBI, the same sources said, that circulating the information was a legitimate means to counter what he claimed was politically motivated criticism of the Bush administration by Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson.
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The characterizations in the 2004 citation are the lefty pov, but the bare facts are what we've long known and O'Donnell (and Newsweek) provided nothing new.
The 2004 column goes on to darkly mention Scooter Libby who has long since been cleared after he, like Rove, signed confidentiality waivers and reporters were compelled (and they fought it every step of the way) to admit Libby was not the source and you can bet that the reporters that have testified so far have cleared Rove, as well.
Thank you very much for the ping.
This may be true, and will form the crux of the Dim's attack on Rove. It will come out that Rove discussed with Time Magazine about Plame being with the CIA, the impication being that Rove is the leaker.
It will be quite a dance for the White House to explain the subtlety that the leak was to Novak, and that Rove was just confirming what was already public knowledge at the time.
re: your post #30
Excellent post! I remember when that report from the American Prospect was originally posted here. It floored me at the time, but over a year later as things come full circle it begins to make a little more sense.