UPDATE Note: I wrote this prior to a commentor posting that John Podesta also askes this question at Think Progress. I'd like to think "great minds think alike..." and all that, but it's more like "suspicious minds think alike". My point still stand though, that i don't believe it's enough to ask McClellan the question. He's gone. And how would he possibly know? They lie to him all the time about everything. Time to move the question up the food chain.
Here's a question that the media still needs to ask:
Did Karl Rove lose his security clearance?
In all of the media melee surrounding Scott McClellan's departure as White House Press Secretary, it seems to me that the story of Rove's job change has been largely overlooked.
Here's why I am wondering what is really going on:
There's something that you can bet cash money on and win every time: Nobody in a White House wants to give up power willingly. Nobody.
So when Rove gives up the policy power he assumed immediately following the 2004 elections, I have to wonder what is really behind it.
What would force Rove out of policy and into a politics advisory only capacity. The answers seem a narrow few, but one of those answers stands out to me.
What if Rove's security clearance has been taken away, pending the outcome of the Plame investigation, or pending a forthcoming indictment? A lost security clearance could explain why he no longer has any policy duties at the White House.
I don't know the answer but it certainly is a question for the media to ask: Was Karl Rove's security clearance taken away or in any way changed?