AP identifies "official A" as Karl Rove

[kpete]

according to three people close to the investigation.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/

[xultar]

1. Ahhh no shit. It had to be him, Bolton, or Cheney.

[Teaser]

2. Why Rove wasn't indicted today...

because he may have been flipped...

[Kingofalldems]

6. Flipped? Just to get Libby?

[Teaser]

8. No...

nt

[ThoughtCriminal]

3. Novak knows

"Official A" talked to Novak.

[Greeby]

4. I'm shocked, I tell ya

:sarcasm:

I suspect Karl wants to rat out the neocons, so everyone won't notice when he goes to work for the Republican nominee in 08

[Straight Shooter]

5. Peter Yost of the AP wrote the article.

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20051028-1546-cialeak-officiala.html

The damning paragraph:

Friday's indictment says "Official A" is a "senior official in the White House who advised Libby on July 10 or 11 of 2003" about a chat with Novak about his upcoming column in which Plame would be identified as a CIA employee.

...

Late Friday, three people close to the investigation, each asking to remain unidentified because of grand jury secrecy, identified Rove as Official A.

[FreeState]

7. So this is how the indictment should read...

Page 8 section 21:

"On or about July 10 or July 11, 2003, LIBBY spoke to senior official in the White House, Karl Rove, who advised LIBBY of a conversation he (Karl Rove) had earlier that week with columnist Robert Novak in which Wilson's Wife was discussed as a CIA employee involved in Wilson's trip. LIBBY was advised by Karl Rove that Novak would be writing a story about Wilson's wife."

So Rove outed Plame to Novak and is now screwed...