Apologies for repeating something I mentioned in the open thread, but this may be a bit of a scoop -- I think
I've figured out the players in the famous
Washington Post scoop of late September 2003 (
"a senior administration official said that before Novak's column ran, two top White House officials called at least six Washington journalists and disclosed the identity and occupation of Wilson's wife").
The "senior administration official" was WH chief of staff Andrew Card, and the leakers he overheard were Ari Fleischer and Dan Bartlett, calling reporters as all of them traveled with Bush in Africa. (See the Needlenose link above for details; I found a couple key clues while researching a theory that the whistle-blower was Colin Powell.)
The big questions: Has Fitzgerald been able to corroborate Card's account enough to indict Fleischer and/or Bartlett? And would this be enough to "flip" them to testify against Rove?