And that's surely not even counting all of these leftist reporters, since I'm sure that the Libby defense team could not get these reporters to voluntarily testify to Joe Wilson outing Valerie...... it's five people from whom the Libby team has secured voluntary cooperation plus all the reporters who have been lying and covering for Joe these past 3 years.... he probably outed her most explicitly to at least a dozen or more people before July 2003, and we already knew that from his bio and speeches, etc. he had outed her indirectly several times. Yeah, they were a super-duper top-secret spy couple for sure.....
Enchante - I went back and read through the other threads that you linked, and I saw my own posts from last year positing that Chris Lehane was likely in the middle of al of this. I haven't changed my mind about that, and this thread makes me even more sure. I even looked up some old articles that mentioned Lehane and this whole thing has his M.O. - spreading false stories among many reporters and playing them off against each other so that nobody ends up being sure where the story started but it develops such a "buzz" that "everyone" knows it is true. Couple that with Lehane's pathological hatred of Karl Rove from the 2000 campaign, and his close association with Mandy Grunwald, a/k/a Mrs. Matt Cooper, and you have both the motive and the method for the invention of the "White House war on Wilson." Lehane knew all those lefty reporters extremely well and had used them before to spread rumors and lies. He managed to get the New York Times to run a front page, above the fold story on the "Rats" ad during the 2000 campaign - would have been a piece of cake for him to get David Corn and then Matt Cooper to write about a White House conspiracy to out Valerie Plame.