Murray Waas has even more information on the Rove case on his blog, www.whateveralready.blogspot.com:
Some final thoughts, based on some information not published in the Voice piece or elsewhere: Why were investigators so skeptical of Rove's claims at even such an early stage of the investigation? As I have previously reported, and others such as the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek have since confirmed, Rove never told investigators of his conversations with Time's Matthew Cooper during his initial FBI interview.Karl Rove, the political mastermind, the guy who would destroy anyone who interfered with the Bush campaign, that Karl Rove couldn't remember where he got this juicy piece of information about Joseph Wilson's wife. That's good. And, seems pretty clear the FBI thought it was a lie.
But perhaps even more importantly, Rove also claimed that he first learned about Plame's employment with the CIA-- not from a classified source-- but rather from a journalist.
What has not been previously reported until now (a blog breaks news!?), is that not only could Rove not remember the name of the journalist who purportedly might have told him of Plame's CIA employment, but he also claimed to remember virtually nothing about the circumstances of the purported conversation. He could not even recall whether the conversation took place on the phone or in person.
