Maybe this will tighten up Dick Cheney's sphincter muscle...

[whistle]

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Reporter: Top Cheney Aide Among Sources By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
41 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - The vice president's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, was a source along with the president's chief political adviser for a Time story that identified a CIA officer, the magazine reporter said Sunday, further countering White House claims that neither aide was involved in the leak.

In an effort to quell a chorus of calls to fire deputy White House chief of staff Karl Rove, Republicans said that Rove originally learned about Valerie Plame's identity from the news media. That exonerates Rove, the Republican Party chairman said, and Democrats should apologize.

But it is not clear that it was a journalist who first revealed the information to Rove.

A lawyer familiar with Rove's grand jury testimony said Sunday that Rove learned about the CIA officer either from the media or from someone in government who said the information came from a journalist. The lawyer spoke on condition of anonymity because the federal investigation is continuing.

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<link> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050717/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation

[wtmusic]

1. Thinking about Scooter always makes his sphincter twitch nt

[KittyWampus]

6. Snort!

:D

[LiberalFighter]

11. Cheney should put a big dab of analgesic balm in it

[wallwriter]

2. Could this turn into a knife fight

between Rove and Libby/Cheney.

Could be fun to watch...

[Just Me]

10. No. They continue to conspire to cover their butts.

SOP for criminally, corrupt MO-FOs.

Although, I imagine they are all doing some really good "prescription" drugs, right now. They are in such deep shit they must be freakin'. They know there are literally millions of people carefully watching their every action.

[whistle]

12. Bush is only interested in his base, the filthy rich (those 480)....

...who will drop his faster than a red hot iron if any light is cast on them.

[leftofthedial]

3. Post-Gannon

no bushgang sphincters CAN tighten anymore.

[wookie294]

4. It appears Miller has another source, in addition to Libby/Rove??

Now that Libby and Rove have come forward, Miller is protecting either another person in the White House or her notes of conversations with Libby and Rove.

[i miss america]

5. Most definitely...

[Hamlette]

7. how does it exonerate them? Shouldn't they put the lid on it?

Seems to me, if a reporter called the WH and said "I'm gonna out one of your CIA folk" the WH is under some kind of obligation to stop it, not egg 'em on.

[whistle]

8. That's what I would think, so someone told Miller, "This comes...

....right from the top". And that is what she is hiding.

[Vinca]

9. The real teaser is

will it go all the way back to Cheney himself? Seems he's been incommunicado of late and there must be a reason.

[whistle]

13. Yes it will and it has begun already