VPW - Whodunnit?

The NY Times reports new denials:

Spokesmen said I. Lewis Libby, the chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, and Elliott Abrams, the director of Middle East affairs at the National Security Council, were not sources of the leak. The White House has said the same of Karl Rove, the president's chief political adviser.

Since we know the WaPo knows the leaker, we are deeply intrigued to see how they report this. So far, they haven't. And I have been plumping for Libby, we should point out.

Now, is the exact wording of the denial all that important? Parsing games could be played with a Federal investigator, I suppose (it depends on what the meaning of "leak" is), but this sort of denial gives the WaPo lots of scope to hint around as to how seriously we should take it.

Now, whether the WH thinks they can deny this falsely and get away with it is a puzzle.

As is deducing the WH strategy - are they going to play "Ask Me Another" all fall? The media pack will move on to someone new, and we perhaps we will tick off a few names each week.

And then there were none! Maybe a match race - do we lose Democratic Presidential candidates faster than we lose leak suspects? Lotsa fun, and everyone can play!

Comments

[The CR]

"Since we know the WaPo knows the leaker"

Can we assume this? They know a "leaker candidate" from their original Deep Throat 2, be he or she could lying or conjecturing.

Do they have any corroboration of that name?

Thanks,
Eric