Did I miss this, or has it gone unreported?
Rove's history with the Bush family goes way back. In 1992, he was fired from the re-election campaign of the first President Bush on suspicion of leaking details of the campaign's Texas operation to none other than Novak.
If I may quote the great New York defense attorney Vincent Gambini, "Well there's a big fucking surprise." Another interesting paragraph that stood out to me about Bush/Cheney involvement in the CIA Leak Case on the flip:
In a way, the whole Wilson saga can be traced back to Cheney and Bush. It was Cheney's interest in the alleged Iraq-Niger deal that led the CIA to dispatch Wilson to Africa. And it Bush's use of the debunked claim in his State of the Union address that led Wilson to publish his doubts.
I believe that when the AP is reporting this unequivicollay - that the administration deliberately disseminated lies and crushed dissent to pave the way to invasion - there is no way Bush & Cheney can shake the stench - even if they are not expressly implicated in the conspiracy.