Think Progress has the transcript of the press briefing where Hadley, unlike everyone else, doesn't deny being the source:
Q Were you the administration official who talked with Bob Woodward about the identity of a CIA operative?Let's not forget that after Rove leaked Plame's name to Matt Cooper, he immediately sent an email to Hadley:
MR. HADLEY: I have seen press reports that — and only press reports — that Bob Woodward has talked about, I guess, three sources from the administration that he had. I’ve also seen press reports from White House officials saying that I am not one of his sources.
The AP adds:
Leaving the room, Hadley was asked if his answer amounted to a yes or a no. ‘’It is what it is,'’ he said.
Mr. Rove told Stephen J. Hadley, then deputy national security adviser, in the July 11, 2003, e-mail that he had spoken with Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper and tried to caution him away from some assertions that CIA employee Valerie Plame's husband was making about faulty Iraq intelligence.Doesn't it make you feel safer knowing that the National Security Adviser's office was probably in the business of outing undercover CIA operatives during war time? No wonder things are such a mess in Iraq.
"I didn't take the bait," Mr. Rove wrote in the message obtained by the Associated Press. In the memo, Mr. Rove recounted how Mr. Cooper tried to question him about whether President Bush had been hurt by the new accusations that Mrs. Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, had been making.
And with more senior White House staffers possibly being implicated, this is looking more like a conspiracy every day.
