So, I really can't believe that I'm the first person to diary this here, as it's been up on Atrios and Josh Marshall for a while, but ...
Bob Woodward has been forced to announce that, guess what, he was told that Wilson's wife was CIA WMD way way back when ... before any other journalist was told!
His spin will be that this is why he's been pooh-poohing the leak as a big deal all over the media. Whew. Clearly his years inside the spin dome have him twirling a whirly. What--"it's no big deal, which is why I'm not on the phone to the prosecutor's office offering to give my testimony"?
We're all just getting our heads around this but some stabs at interp. on the flip.
- Libby's lawyers say this shows that Fitz doesn't know what really went down. Ha ha ha. Talk about whistling past the graveyard. We know about this because FItz found out!
- Apparently, Fitz is still kicking ass and taking names ... In the big picture, this is bad bad news for the WH. Why would Fitz care about Woodward if he was really just going to stick with nailing Libby for perjury?
- What a spectacle it will be if Woodward ends up as a press apologist for the WH while WH turncoats make the case for Fitz that no, they really were conspiring to out a CIA agent! Woodward will look the kind of sad case he wrote about 30 years ago. Which he is.