More Leaks About Rove and the Plame Affair

Monday's New York Times takes a look at Karl Rove's political strategy to keep Republican control of congress this fall but, while he's busy working the base, the Washington Post is focusing on the possibility that special prosecutor, Patrick Fitzegerald, will soon announce Rove's legal fate in the Plame Affair.

A recap:

That evidence includes details of a one-week period in July 2003 when Rove talked to two reporters about Plame and her CIA role, then reported the conversations back to high-level White House aides, according to sources in the case and information released by Fitzgerald as part of the ongoing leak investigation.

And, some new information:

Additionally, one former government official said he testified that Rove talked with White House colleagues about the political importance of defending the prewar intelligence and countering Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV. It was Wilson who accused Bush of twisting intelligence about Iraq's efforts to obtain nuclear material from Africa. The official refused to be named out of fear of angering Fitzgerald and the White House.

There's definitely a lot of fear when it comes to leaking anything that might anger Bush and his hatchet men - led by Karl Rove. Fitzgerald has kept a very tight reign on the information discovered via his investigation, so speculation has been left to run wild in the public and on the internet. For almost three years now, we've been labouring to put all of the pieces of this story together.

As the day of judgment comes near, we are still getting just minor dribbles from various anonymous sources:

The aide said Rove's message was that "if there are no WMDs and some blame us, it will not be a pleasant election year." The aide said Rove talked a lot about Wilson that week, but mostly about the fact he was a Democrat and needed to be rebutted.

"needed to be rebutted"

Anyone who knows about the Rovian methods of rebutting an opponent knows how dirty he can play and that he sure doesn't like losing. No matter how much he proclaims his innocence and, even if he is never indicted, Rove will go down in history as an unscrupulous, narrowly-focused man who will do almost anything to win the political game. Some regard him as 'brilliant'. His level of nastiness is anything but.