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Too Dumb to Understand Rove
In light of the new Woodward angle, the Press, too simple to outmaneuver Rove, is doing the Whitehouse's work for them.  FOX News, even dumber, hasn't got their spin together yet (Whitehouse FAX Machine is acting up), but once they do, they'll do

exactly what the rest of the press is doing today: questioning Fitzgerald's competence.

Okay... so now we know Bob Woodward is involved in the Plame leak.  Woodward revealed this week that a month prior to Novak's traitorous column he learned Plame's identity from three senior administration officals: Scooter Libby, Andrew Card, and a third, still anonymous source.  The third source has not signed a full waiver; allowing Woodward to identify his or her identity to Fitzgerald only, but not to the press.

So what does this mean?

It means that the third source (please be Dick please be Dick please be Dick) felt he was on the verge of being discovered by Fitzgerald, and so acted preemptively.  Forget about Woodward for the moment and remember: this administration is all about propaganda.
They're portraying Patrick Fitzgerald as a fool.

In his speaking indictment of Scooter Libby, Fitzgerald pointed to "an undersecretary of state," the vice president, and a "senior CIA officer."  The depiction of June 2003 was of a period of inter-governmental chatter about Ambassador Wilson and his wife.  Wrapping up this early-to-mid June 2003 time frame, in what will now become a familiar soundbite, Fitzgerald concluded, "Mr. Libby was the first official known to have told a reporter... about Valerie Wilson."

So, foresaw Rove, the ever-predictable press (minus FOX News, still awaiting that FAX) is all over that apparent misstatement. Oh sure, it will always be a technically correct statement ("the first official known to have told..."). But that won't matter now: by the time the Dems make a coordinated effort to point this out the Rapture-ublicans will have flooded the airwaves with "Fitzgerald was wrong," and "Libby should be exonerated." Remember the "incompetent" Hans Blix - the guy who couldn't find the nose on his face, much less WMDs in Iraq?

Despite its actual legal significance, the Woodward revelation has already been fed to the foolishly ravenous 24-hour cable news circuit in a form pre-tweaked for maximum GOP benefit. I can only hope bloggers with real audience numbers pick up on this and get the word out.

7:20 p.m. CST   UPDATE:
RE: ("the first official known to have told...")

Keith just pointed this out on Countdown.  Thank you, Keith Olbermann.