Something has been gnawing at me since I read Lawrence O’Donnell’s blog entry in the Huffington Post, earlier today.
Since I revealed the big scoop, I have had it reconfirmed by yet another highly authoritative source. Too many people know this. It should break wide open this week.
Exactly how many people are we talking about? Just how many inside-the-beltway bum-sniffers have been sitting on the Karl Rove as Plame identity leaker story. Dare I say it? What did the press corps know and when did it know it?
Apparently, I was not the only one who was irked by this. Digby raises the same question on his blog. As per Digby, Wonkette indicated it was Rove last Wednesday.
Facing jail, Matt and Judy might talk, or — worse for He Who Must Not Be Named (Karl Rove) — they’ll go to jail with lips still sealed but outrage on the part of friends and colleagues will shake lose which White House source outed Plame to smear Wilson.
Digby asks:
The question now is how many other people in Washington know who the leaker is? Clearly, Wonkette thinks she does. The panel on Mclaughlin was unruffled at the revelation…. Moreover, is it normal that members of the press know the answer to a major mystery but they withhold it, as a group, from the public? [emphasis added] I thought their job was to reveal the answers to major mysteries. In fact, this seems like the scoop of the decade. Back in the day, reporters were racing to get the news of semen stains and talking points on the air mere seconds before their rivals. Now, they all keep quiet?
Indeed! Whom does the press corps serve — the public or the White House? Have they lost all capacity for presenting information that wasn’t issued in a press release? Lately, I feel like a pauper, pressing my nose against the glass, while the press club sips champagne at government soiree’s, and occasionally lets me sift their garbage for scraps of food they’ve tossed in the bin.
