Like, Scooter MADE ME

From the junior high school hallways of The Administration's advisory board, we learn this vital fascinating fact about Rove's recent testimony in the Plame Affair hearings: Scooter Libby did it. It's all his fault. Nanner nanner nanner.

White House adviser Karl Rove told the grand jury in the CIA leak case that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, may have told him that CIA operative Valerie Plame worked for the intelligence agency before her identity was revealed, a source familiar with Rove's account said yesterday.

In a talk that took place in the days before Plame's CIA employment was revealed, Rove and Libby discussed conversations they had had with reporters in which Plame and her marriage to Iraq war critic Joseph C. Wilson IV were raised, the source said. Rove told the grand jury the talk was confined to information the two men heard from reporters, the source said.

Rove has also testified that he also heard about Plame from someone else outside the White House, but could not recall who.

So without a doubt, Turd Blossom's smarmy actions weren't really his fault at all, he just learned the information from another Administration inside source in the Veep's office. So, really, like, not his fault At. All.

Pretty fascinating development. Is this a game-board move whereby Scooter "takes the fall," as it were, in a kind of calculated pre-indictment plea-bargain? Does it further implicate Rove's involvement, say in a conspiracy charge, now that he admits he "may" have known Plame's name prior to to pulbication of it? Does this answer any questions?

Nope. Not a one. We'll know more soon if indictments come, but until then... whatever.

[ginormous hat tip to EZ writer at dKos]