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Murray Waas: White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame, the wife of an administration critic, was a CIA employee, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the accounts that both Rove and Bush independently provided … Read More

Lawrence O’Donnell, who seems to have pretty good sources on the CIA leak story, predicts the following: "At least three high level Bush Administration personnel indicted and possibly one or more very high level unindicted co-conspirators." In a subsequent post, O’Donnell says Karl Rove’s agreement to testify again before the grand jury is a solid indication his lawyer thinks he’ll … Read More

There’s rumors floating about that indictments are expected soon (like, any day now) in the CIA Leak/Valerie Plame matter.  And Rove, some are saying, has been seen much — missing White House meetings that he usually attends, etc. UPDATE TO THE UPDATE (and post bumped to top):  Rove to testify to grand jury.  And no immunity.  Good.  It’s important to … Read More

I haven’t forgotten about this — but I’m not digging in the dirt about it either.  Judith Miller revealed that her source was Scooter Libby — no surprise there.  But the real speculation is on what special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is cooking up.  I’ll let Kevin Drum speak: In the Washington Post today, Jim VandeHei and Walter Pincus provide some … Read More

Late to the party and need resources on what this Plamegate thing is all about?  Visit The Left Coaster.

Think Progress has a very detailed database of the 21 administration officials tied up in the Plamegate matter.  Go read it.

Murray Waas reports: The new disclosure that Miller and Libby met on July 8, 2003, raises questions regarding claims by President Bush that he and everyone in his administration have done everything possible to assist Fitzgerald’s grand-jury probe. Sources close to the investigation, and private attorneys representing clients embroiled in the federal probe, said that Libby’s failure to produce a … Read More

Let’s see.  Where are we in the Republican defense of Rove?  Meme roll call: First: “The White House had nothing to do with the leak of classified information.” Second: “Okay, maybe the White House did have something to do with the leak, but nobody identified Valerie Plame by her actual name.” Second and a half: “By the way, Plame had … Read More

People are asking good questions: What did White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card learn from Alberto Gonzales and when did he learn it…and what did he do with that knowledge? . . . Alberto Gonzales admitted that he called Andrew Card right after he was notified that the Justice Department had opened its investigation of the Plame leak…even though … Read More

In case you missed it, Josh Marshall has the letter (PDF format) in which eleven former intelligence officers reduce the GOP Plame talking points (e.g., “she wasn’t covert because she had a desk job") to mincemeat.