Rove: This White House Will Lie About Anything

Keith Olbermann tonight had some details about the Rove case that I haven't heard before. First, there's been talk about a State Department memo that talked about Wilson's conclusion that the Niger yellow cake story was bogus. At some point, Colin Powell and Ari Fleisher were believed to have been seen aboard Air Force I reading this.

But notably, the document clearly states the material is top secret. If true, this ends ANY speculation that Rove, Libby, etc. had no knowledge Valerie Plame Wilson's covert CIA spy status was "secret" (common sense might tell you that).

Secondly, it turns out that when Fleisher was seen reading it was the day AFTER Wilson's op/ed piece in the Times appeared, which suggests there was an operation afoot then to burn the Wilsons in retaliation by sending this document around and making certain word got out.

And on a side note, here's John Dean's piece saying that the situations does NOT look good for Rove.