The Rove revelation: when you peel everything away, Rove never mentioned Valerie Plame. Period. Newsweek is creating a story that isn't there---what else is new??---and the rest of the MSM piles on. What is interesting in this agit-prop dog pile on a single issue is that the style is to write a 2,000 word essay and bury the truth within a sentence inside the essay. The hoped for result is that you will be misled. Emphasis mine"

.....Rove before Novak's column was published. In the conversation, Rove gave Cooper a "big warning" that Wilson's assertions might not be entirely accurate and that it was not the director of the CIA or the vice president who sent Wilson on his trip. Rove apparently told Cooper that it was "Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on [weapons of mass destruction] issues who authorized the trip," according to a story in Newsweek's July 18 issue.

This is a contrived Media Event contrived by the Media. Next Case.