I'll say it again: Visualize Karl Rove in leg shackles and handcuffs. We may have to import a few more sets of shackles and cuffs for this project.
From Mathew Gross:
" The Bloomberg article is out, and it doesn't bode well for where this is heading for Rove and Libby at a minimum. Via ThinkProgress:
Two top White House aides have given accounts to the special prosecutor about how reporters told them the identity of a CIA agent that are at odds with what the reporters have said, according to persons familiar with the case.
Lewis “Scooter'’ Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, told special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that he first learned from NBC News reporter Tim Russert of the identity of CIA agent Valerie Plame, the wife of former ambassador and Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson. Russert has testified before a federal grand jury that he didn’t tell Libby of Plame’s identity.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove told Fitzgerald that he first learned the identity of the CIA agent from syndicated columnist Robert Novak, who was first to report Plame’s name and connection to Wilson. Novak, according to a source familiar with the matter, has given a somewhat different version to the special prosecutor.... "
The blogger adds: "The whole White House is involved in this, folks. Nothing, but nothing, is likely to blow this permanently off the front page in the next year."
David Corn has the story too.
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