A year from now, I bet half the American people believe that Rove leaked the CIA agent's name. The media is getting a free run on this one.
The media isn't getting any free ride on this one.
The last thing Bush should do is speak out on this. Let them hang themselves. It's all going to blow up in their faces, and there will be plenty of other media to rub their noses in it.
The cone of silence may come down at the NYT's, but it sure won't anywhere else.
The Democrats and their newspaper are going to look like complete fools, as always. August, typically a slow news month, these other papers will have nothing much else to do but rub it in.