[liberallarry]

"When the story comes out, I'm quite confident we're going to find out that it started kind of as gossip, as chatter," he told CNN's Larry King.

Woodward also said in interviews this summer and fall that the damage done by Plame's name being revealed in the media was "quite minimal."

"When I think all of the facts come out in this case, it's going to be laughable because the consequences are not that great," he told National Public Radio this summer.

Sensible criticism of Wilson and the Democrats.

[oceanview]

yes, but unfortunately for Libby - he fell into the perjury trap that Fitzgerald turned his GJ into. I don't know that this Woodward stuff will help Libby that much at trial. It certainly helps us understand the BS surrounding this case, the media involvement in it, but Libby is holding the bag right now.