DEEP BUTT

Gotta cash my check...

Holy shit! Via Eschaton, a new development in the Plame case. It seems Bob Woodward, of Watergate fame, is actually a major player in this scandal. In tomorrow's Washington Post:

Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.

In a more than two-hour deposition, Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick J. Fitzgerald that the official casually told him in mid-June 2003 that Plame worked as a CIA analyst on weapons of mass destruction, and that he did not believe the information to be classified or sensitive, according to a statement Woodward released yesterday.

Fitzgerald interviewed Woodward about the previously undisclosed conversation after the official alerted the prosecutor to it on Nov. 3 -- one week after Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was indicted in the investigation.

Woodward was on CNN before the Libby indictment dropped, minimizing this investigation, and pooh-poohing the idea of this being a serious leak. And this bastard knew there was leaking because he was the recipient of a leak. This guy has been in the bag since he made a new career of writing hagiography for Dubya. Unfreakingbelievable.

JC