Do the Time/Cooper Source Notes Reveal That Karl Rove Outed CIA Operative Valerie Plame?

That's what an MSNBC analyst reports.

If true - and it's not exactly unexpected - this is huge. The president's most trusted advisor - the man who runs this country, for all practical purposes - deliberately leaked the name of a major CIA operative for no other reason than to get back at Plame's husband, former Ambassador Joe Wilson, for saying there was no truth to the "yellow cake" story the Bushies used to justify going to war in Iraq.

Read the article and you see some suggest a perjury rap for Rove because he lied and said it was not him. However, the outing of an operative in a time of war IS legally defined as an act of treason. To have this done by the president's top man only serves to make this treason actually worse.