"Karl Rove, the White House senior adviser, spoke with the columnist Robert D. Novak as he was preparing an article in July 2003 that identified a C.I.A. officer who was undercover"
Take that and compare it with Wilson admitting on Wolf Blitzer tonight that she was not undercover when the Novak article was written and you have a repudiated story. Talk about splitting hairs
Oh, I guess they are now going to try to nail Rove for saying he never talked to Novak at all, but I don't recall him ever saying that. Or they suggest that he might not ahev told the President everything. My bet is that he did, which is why the President has never wavered in his support for Karl.
Remember, the accusation that started the firestorm in 2003 was that the White House actively peddled Plame's name and relationship to Wilson in order to discredit and punish him. This was what Matt Cooper wrote about in his orignal article. This fantasy has now been completely demolished. So the next attack was that whoever "leaked" Plame's name to Novak committed a crime. Ooops, that one's out the window too.
Do they really think America is going to demand Karl Rove's head on a platter because he talked to a reporter?