More thoughts on Powell...
I have been saying all along the "news" breaking about this story and Rove's involvement has the distinct flavor of being very carefully manipulated and scripted to fit an agenda.
Consider this. If it is Powell, as I said earlier, so what? The facts do not change. Valerie Plame/Wilson/whatever was not covert, had not been covert for 5 years, and as the gentleman explained last night:
1. Was not working out of the country
2. Was driving to work everyday and parking at the Agency
3. The government was making NO effort to conceal her true identity
1, 2, & 3 specifically excluded her from being a covert operative.
IOW, a true non-story, let's move on.
Also consider Woodward warned MSM to back off and as I just heard, Lanny Davis agreed no law was broken. If said as presented, Rove did nothing wrong.
So what is the true story? MSM knew it was Powell and yet ignored that fact in an attempt to destroy Rove (and by proxy, the Bush administration). Not to worry.
Yet it backfired.
Maybe Cooper was telling the truth last week after all. He received a release in a dramtic fashion, but not from Rove. Instead, from Powell. The lawyer to lawyer thing may have been his lawyer tying up loose ends before going to the Grand Jury.
Of course, the part about his conversation with Rove broke, but Powell's (again, an IF situation) name did not leak either by design or no leak.
This could get more interesting than we ever imagined. And fun. Someone keeps asking for popcorn. I want to watch this with a pitcher of Marguarita's.
Fire up the blender. The key ingredient is simple syrup, which is a super suspension of sugar in water. Don't forget the sea salt on the rim of the glass. ;o)
I think Powell was only Novak's other source. I think Miller only had Rove. Consider all of the gossip & buzz, after the mess I alluded to in my previous post had blown up. It probably took quite a bit of coaching by his lawyer, about how he should handle all of the heresy info he knew in testimony to the GJ.