[lugsoul]

For the sake of accuracy - he didn't initially tell the FBI he learned it from Cheney. He told them that after the note surfaced. Then he changed his story to the VP told me, but I forgot and when I talked to Russert more than a month later I was surprised. The part he left out of that is talking with the two CIA guys, Grossman, Martin, Fleischer, Miller, Addington etc.

I still maintain that if he had followed what Rove did and gradually came clean as more facts came out, he wouldn't have been prosecuted. But he stuck with a story that frankly isn't that credible. There isn't a poster on this board that would believe that story from a Democratic senior White House official.

[Della Street]

Um, he brought the note with him to his first FBI interview and told them within the first 15 minutes of his first meeting about it.