(NB There's also this update from Murray Waas.)
I have the sense that all of these leaks pointing to Scooter may have been engineered to put pressure on him to blow the whistle on someone else - be that Rove, Cheney or who knows.
The evidence prosecutors have assembled in the CIA leak case suggests Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff sought out reporters in the weeks before an undercover operative's identity was compromised in the news media, casting doubt on one of the White House's main lines of defense.I especially like how Rove throws Libby under the bus. Again, it's very intriguing that that fact is coming out now. Sounds to me like someone wants Libby to wake up and realize that if he doesn't start talking, he's taking the fall for everyone, including people who have now set him up.
For months, the White House and its supporters have argued top presidential aides did not knowingly expose Valerie Plame, the wife of administration critic Joseph Wilson, as a CIA operative.
At most, the aides passed on information about her that entered the White House from reporters, the supporters argued.
Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald now knows that Libby met three times with a New York Times reporter before the leak of Plame's identity, initiated a call to NBC's Tim Russert and was a confirming source about Wilson's wife for a Time magazine reporter.
And in a new twist, presidential political adviser Karl Rove has testified that it's possible Libby was his source before Rove talked to two reporters about the CIA operative.
This is simply more fun than any of us deserve :-)
