Someone else.... is asking what if it was a reporter?
My money is still on Joe Wilson being the original leaker. Miller or somebody else may have passed it on, but I suspect that good ol' Joe is the boy responsible. And I'll even speculate Judith Miller is going to jail rather than reveal that Joe Wilson is her source.
Yes!
Ain't it fascinatin'?
Karl Rove is brilliant. The liberofascists leap upon a passing remark and reveal their own operatives as stupid political shills married to memo-producing weapons-of-mass-destruction pimps who recommend their incompetent husbands for front-line spy duty.
And, as a bonus, he nails a NYT-wit reporter who thinks she is above the law. She is now pursued by a Democrat special prosecutor (Fitzgerald) who is trying to make a name for himself while prosecuting a possible violation of the law in a Republican administration that is hated by the liberofascist base of the Democrat party.
BUT: there has been no violation of the law (except by Wilson, who probably has committed perjury), and the NYT has engaged a story that will not prove true or worthwhile, in the summer when no one really cares anyway, and just in time to make the lib Democrat senators in the Senate look childish, without judgment or maturity, and merely obstructionist in nature and purpose.
Brilliant. Absolutely. Brilliant. Win-win-win-win-win.
I love it.