Karl Rove... I can't say I'm surprised.

What else do expect from the guy who bugs his own office and then blames it on the opposition to help his candidate win an election?
Now Karl has been outed as the one who told Time reporter Tim Cooper about Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, being a CIA agent.
It's interesting that some newspapers are celebrating Rove for having given the OK for Cooper to reveal his name... are they forgetting that there was no good reason for Rove to have done any of this in the first place?
Also, Rove is going to claim that he didn't know that Plame was undercover... this means that she either kept terrible cover, since Rove did know that she worked for the CIA, or that someone else told Rove that she was a CIA agent. Whomever told Rove that she was an agent either told him that she was undercover or forgot to mention it... which seems absurd. There are very few people that knew that she was an agent, and it seems ridiculous for any of them to have forgotten to mention her super-secret status, as they probably knew they shouldn't be talking about it in the first place. Perhaps it was one of those, "you can't tell anybody else about this, but..." kind of things. I think Rove had to have known that she was undercover... how could he know about her working for the agnecy otherwise? This means that he later just failed to mention her undercover status later when he was on the phone with Cooper. To me, that was a conscious action and something that Rove should be fired and jailed for. I don't care if it was someone else who told him that Plame was an agent, it was clearly Rove who thought it was information that the public should have and gave it to them.
I also don't get where Novak is in all of this. He's the one who wrote the column, why hasn't he been jailed? Probably because he heard it from Miller, who is going to jail.
The Dialy Kos' summary of how it all probably went down seems to be right on. Why would Miller go to jail and Cooper not? I'm surprised anyone would go to jail to protect Rove, but here it is.