The Spy Who Came in From the Cold & the Adviser Who Came in for Some Heat

National Journal: The Hotline, Blogometer

If the Blogometer swore off publishing speculation, then we wouldn’t have much to write about today. Indeed, it is almost all speculation today. On the left and right, interested observers are poring over transcripts, interviews, books, plus newspaper and magazine articles both new and old, looking for a new angle that may help illuminate the truth behind the ongoing investigation and explain what it all means. Here are just a few of the theories to surface, either for the 1st time or with renewed significance, in recent days:

• WH dep. CoS Karl Rove could face espionage charges rather than mere indictment under intelligence protection statues.

• Ex-Amb. Joe Wilson may have leaked wife Valerie Plame’s role in his Niger trip to friends in the Washington press.

• New York Times’ Judy Miller may have leaked the Wilson/Plame gossip to the WH.

• Or, Miller and the Times may be protecting another source, one unsympathetic to the WH.

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July 14, 2005 | Filed Under News Mentions, Slaughter | Comment