Have a look at this story in tomorrow's Washington Post about Bob Woodward's recent revelation to Patrick Fitzgerald that he was himself told by a CIA employee that Valerie Plame was with the Company a month before Robert Novak's infamous column was published.
Woodward's testimony appears to change key elements in the chronology Fitzgerald laid out in his investigation and announced when indicting Libby three weeks ago. It would make the unnamed official -- not Libby -- the first government employee to disclose Plame's CIA employment to a reporter. It would also make Woodward, who has been publicly critical of the investigation, the first reporter known to have learned about Plame from a government source.Is this really any surprise? The CIA confirmed to many journalists that Plame was one of theirs. A spokesman told Novak she was ---and he told his readers. And it may have been this same person who also told certain reporters with the New York Times and the Washington Post. And just who do you think told Andrea Mitchell?
(Thanks to Duncan Black for the heads up.)