[NathanBookman]

Getting info from Rove is not an issue (since reporters do this everyday from government sources), only getting the specific info who Wilson's wife was AND that she was a covert agent (if she even was one to begin with). And if Rove truly did release reporters from any confidentiality, I find it hard to believe he did anything illegal.

[oceanview]

I agree, but the media simply needs any piece of testimony from anyone that says "its Rove" - and that's what they will run with. the facts do not matter. the media simply wants someone to say it was Rove, even if it means they are lying or at best becomes a "he said/she said".

[tobyhill]

You're exactly right. Rove talked to reporters a week before the story and has never denied that but has denied giving non-common knowledge information to them. According to many in the journalistic field, Plames name was common knowledge through Wilson himself and Wilson liked to talk a lot while drinking at social parties. Most administration officials and even the President aren't given actual names of CIA Ops because of national security reasons in case something may happen to them.

[italianquaker]

jail will teach these reporters