David Corn on the Second Novak tale in the Plame Kerfuffle: "In a bid to prevent Fitzgerald from indicting his client, Luskin was attempting to explain away Rove's grand jury turnaround. First, Rove had said nothing to FBI agents and Fitzgerald's grand jury about a July 2003 conversation in which he told Time's Matt Cooper that former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife worked at the CIA. Later Rove acknowledged that he had informed Cooper of Valerie Wilson's CIA status. Now, hoping to fend off Fitzgerald, Luskin was claiming that one of his conversations with Viveca Novak set off a chain of events that had caused Rove to remember that conversation with Cooper."

I think that Rove saying "That's what I heard, too," is a LOT LESS than telling "Cooper that former ambassador Joseph Wilson's wife worked at the CIA." Of course, David Corn is a confirmed Bush-basher, one of the best.

I would respect David's honesty better if he would quote Rove, or what Rove is actually supposed to have said.