You mean it gets WORSE!?!

Sheesh. Salon reports that Karl Rove wasn't even the only one to leak the name of a covert CIA operative. To Bob Novak, no less. No, apparently Novak-- committed journalist that he is-- had two sources before he went to press blowing the cover of a government agent. What a guy.

We can play the guessing game for months, and we probably will: With [sic] several sources confirming that Karl Rove was Bob Novak's second source for his Valerie Plame column, which "senior administration official" was the first? There are several attractive candidates-- including Vice President Dick Cheney and his chief of staff, Scooter Libby-- but at least a little attention is focusing now on former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, either as a leaker himself or as a participant in a subsequent coverup.

The New York Daily News says it has "sources" who say that special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is "looking beyond" the question of who leaked Plame's identity to see whether White House aides tried to "cover their tracks" after her name became public. the sources tell the Daily News that Fitzgerald's grand jury is investigating what role, if any, Fleischer may have played in the case.

Ugh. No wonder the GOP focus is on discrediting Wilson. It'd really be something if we could take down two press secretaries, the uberlord of GOP dirty tricks and an amoral right-wing rent boy like Novak.