Reply #55: More likely that Cheney told Rove, I think [View All]

[9thkvius]

It seems to me that something as classified and need-to-know as the identity of someone working under cover for CIA would be known to a handful of people at best, even within the White House. I doubt Rove would have had direct access to that information. He did not even become an "official" Federal employee until he became Deputy Chief of Staff, right? So I think it's more likely that someone else passed this on to him. But who?

Cheney? Possibly, especially since he was apparently the one who wanted someone to go to Niger in the first place.

Someone at CIA, perhaps Tenet? Again, a possibility, and certainly Tenet would have had access to that sort of information.

Someone else with access to highly classified information of this specific nature, such as John Bolton, who at that time was head of nonproliferation efforts at State?

It's also possible that there may have been more than two people involved in the passing of this information. But there have to be at least two, because I cannot possibly see how Mr. Rove would have gotten that information otherwise.