[unknown source] shares/discusses Wilson and wife with Rove
[unknown source] tells Miller, who tells Novak. (early reports said Miller told Novak)
Novak confirms Miller's story with [unknown source].
Novak calls Rove. Rove confirms story ("yeah I've heard that too"). Novak provides Plame's name to Rove and under cover status.
Miller does not run with the story
3 days later, Rove wanting the story run, tells Cooper. Rove does not say the name "Plame" but does provide leak KNOWING her name and under cover status.
Cooper will not run with the story
3 days later Novak runs with the story (a story that no one else would)
The NYT/Novak piece suggests that Rove did know Plame's name and that she was a CIA officer, under cover, 3 days before Rove told Cooper.
Rove may not have disclosed the name "Plame" to Cooper, but he did say Wilson wife, KNOWING that she was a CIA officer under cover.
[unknown source] The second senior administration official source is described "no partisan gun slinger" according to Novak (could this describe Libby?)