[cyncooper]

I just saw Viveca Novak on CNN by chance and heard her discussing this with Cooper Anderson. She referred quite breathlessly to what a serious crime this is. Note: Karl Rove's picture is prominently featured on Time's website headlining this story and Anderson asked Novak if it's known if Rove signed the form yet, implying that Rove is the one.

Good try CNN and TIME. This will be yet another dry hole in your neverending effort to paint the Bush administration with the scandal brush.

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[EllaMinnow]

Bump.

[prairiebreeze]

For an administration that at times holds a very dim view of the press, the reputation of the Bush White House and the future of some of its officials may hang on the profession’s ethical standards.

LOL! Bush's administration is doomed then! Pfft! This means nothing in the end, I believe. The administration will sign the releases and the journalists still do not have to divulge sources. Unless the judge is a Dim with a huge grudge, I don't see Novak going to jail either.

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[arasina]

For an administration that at times holds a very dim view of the press, the reputation of the Bush White House and the future of some of its officials may hang on the profession’s ethical standards.

That sounds almost like a threat.

Why is it okay for the MEDIA/PRESS to be secretive and have their notes protected above and beyond "regular people," but it's not okay for the PRESIDENT to have certain information that is seen only by those determined to have a "need to know"?

[EllaMinnow]

Did you see this?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1050418/posts

[spoonfork2000]

If the liberal press was not willing to move on the Memogate scangdal that Sean Hannity broke, they should stop being so hypocritical over this issue.

[patriciamary]

I wouldn't give these people anything. The Bush adminstration should sign nothing.

[Zack Nguyen]

This is a serious matter. It does make it a little more difficult to feel sorry for the CIA operative and her husband when they do a photo shoot for Vanity Fair, nevertheless, revealing the names of clandestine and covert operators can get people killed, not to mention the loss for our national security.

[jackbill]

Hey, FBI. Up yours.

Signed:

A senior administration official.

[11th Earl of Mar]

If this was an issue that hurt Democrats, the media would be calling the FBI a bunch of NAZIs for asking them to reveal their sourses.

[squidly]

If Clinton were in office, Reno would have simply refused to investigate from the beginning, as she did with the Chinese fundraising. Sometimes the GOP is its own worst enemy.

And pardon me while I puke on this "victim" status some people have built up for Plame and Wilson. They knew what they were doing, which was conducting an unsanctioned "investigation" (not really worthy of that term) with a preconceived conclusion in mind. It was a hit job on the Bush administration, and when the Bush administration hits back they cry and wail about some anonymity BS.

Gag! This entire affair disgusts me.

[Prodigal Son]

Do Americans even care about this? I have no clue- not being in the US- but it just doesn't seem like the kind of thing that would get most people worked up.