Rove's plan to avoid all charges: bank on the integrity of reporters.

[skip fox]

If every primary source says "A reporter told me," and if only ONE reporter refused to waive confidentiality, then the prosecutor could never prove anything against them. (The reporter could be the one who would rather be jailed than talk.)

WHAT a plan!!! To deviously maintain a lie by relying on the honest of others.

But to do so he would have to mastermind a coverup, an obstruction of justice which, if only IT could be proved, then Rove is toast.

But then a question for Libby and Rove, if you were Miller's source why haven't you written a specific waiver of confidentiality for Judith Miller? Maybe she could take Russert's path: testify only to what she told her source, not vice versa. And if she says, like Russert, "I told them I don't know (Plame's identity or connection to Wilosn)," then Rove and Libby are toast.

[MidwestTransplant]

1. I think he was banking all along that the the court

woudn't try to compel the reporters to testify and thus this would all go away.

[Kagemusha]

2. Yes he's a devious little genius, isn't he?

Use the integrity of reporters to protect the government rather than allow it to be attacked. Thus has Rove learned the lessons of Watergate.

Learn well.

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Somehow I don't think it was personal integrity that put Miller in jail.

I deon't think it's integrity that's keeping her there. I think, first, that someone is paying her at least $1000/day for every day she spends behind bars, and I think her silence is part of a much larger game.

Other than that, your theory makes sense. It certainly fits Rove's pattern to turn people's personal strengths into liabilities. The psychopathic little slug.