Do the numbers. Rove will go down in Plames!

[skip fox]

The more we know, the more it seems that there will be multiple indictments for "high administration officials" in Fitzgerald's final report including at least two for Rove. (If not indictments, we'll have notifications of non-indictable wrongful activities--or some such--in the prosecutor's final report).

I say this because in learning about multiple leakers for the six reported contacts and multiple confirming sources, it becomes apparent what occurred. One administrative official discovered the Plame-Wilson-Niger relationship, took it to the White House Iraq Group, turned it over to Rove, who on the spot assigned tasks to different primary leakers/sources assuring no source called another source's contact (so as not to appear too eager), that no source's "pitch" was exactly the same but that their information was all given in an "off hand" manner (e.g., "Don't go too far out on this Wilson thing, I don't want you burnt").

Simply "doing the numbers" has told me this all along, but as new information comes out my analysis is being confirmed. We knew there were at least 6 initial leaks/contacts. Now we know that there were at least three different initial leakers (Fleicher Rove, Libby) and of the 6 reporters 4 are confirmed as Miller, Novak, Cooper, and Pincus. We also realize that there must have been a number of other confirming sources (because you cannot assure who the reporter will call for confirmation).

A master-mind would have been necessary to coordinate all these calls by different people AND would have to insure that a number of other officials were ready and willing to confirm the initial leaks.

They would have gone to Rove immediately and he, probably in an emergency meeting of the White House Iraq Group, assigned the roles, the stories and the stances, etc.

So he not only leaked by was the mastermind of a conspiracy to leak.

We can only hope he lead a cover-up and committed perjury as well.

[Oversea Visitor]

1. Dumb

Rove got C_on I_nto A_ction.

[rwork]

2. He must have some powerful

stuff to get the judges to go along with him.Usually any kind of investigation is stopped dead in its tracks thanks to a bush* appointee.

[skip fox]

3. I've heard little to undermine Fitzgerald. He sounds great.

Oliphant thinks that it this falls apart politiclly it will probably happen by a first few defections of Republicans (disgusted with Rove &c.) followed quickly as the majority disavows themselves from these tactics.

If this happens, then the Democrats are in a good position (if only we had some well articulted plans) to reap the public's new skepticism of "everything Bush," the neo-cons in particular.