A funny thing happened yesterday when Bush walked up the steps at Andrews Air Force Base to board Air Force One. The president turned around to wave, as presidents are prone to do, and no one was looking at him. All the cameras were focused at the bottom of the steps, where Karl Rove stood.
To be sure, Rove has been a leading target for suspicion on the Plame Game since Joseph Wilson said he’d like to see Rove “frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs.”
The focus on Rove changed a bit earlier this week when White House press secretary Scott McClellan emphatically said Rove “wasn’t involved” with the leaks.
Well, the attention is back on “Bush’s Brain” now that a British newspaper reporter has said that reporters in DC widely believe Rove was one of the Novak Two.
The Guardian’s Julian Borger said yesterday, “Several of the journalists are saying privately, ‘Yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to.'”
Keep in mind, a lot of these political reporters already know who leaked the story. At least seven of them (maybe more) were given the leak first hand.
I don’t know Borger, so frakly I don’t know for sure how credible this is. Nevertheless, if political reporters really are saying that Rove is involved, things may get even worse for the White House.