[Dave S]

thought the report about the six other journalists had already been discredited or undermined.

My understanding was that Andrea Mitchell and Chris Matthews were contacted several days to a week after the Novak article appeared in the press. Matthews reportedly told Wilson that it was Rove that called him. But again at least two of these six reporters (and we dont know the others) were called AFTER the article appeared. Wilson said that they had been called before but what Ive heard lately was that Matthews and Mitchell were contacted afterwards to give the story legs, not to leak it.

[aristeides]

Wilson said on one of the talk shows yesterday (Face the Nation, I believe) that the six reporters were contacted about a week after the Novak column.