Tuesday, July 12, 2005 Perhaps this may clarify things a bit -- from today's  t r u t h o u t  reprinted from the Washington Post. http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/071205J.shtml For some quick background, here is what Rove has said directly about Plame: As ABC News's The Note reported on Sept. 29, 2003, ABC News producer Andrea Owen and a cameraman approached Rove that morning as he walked toward his car. Owen: "Did you have any knowledge or did you leak the name of the CIA agent to the press?" Rove: "No." At which point, Rove shut his car door. Then on August 31, 2004, Rove spoke to CNN's John King . King: "Did someone in the White House leak the name of the CIA operative? What is your assessment of the status of the investigation, and can you tell us that you had nothing to do with. . . . Rove: "Well, I'll repeat what I said to ABC News when this whole thing broke some number of months ago. I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name." Here is McClellan in a Sept. 16, 2003 briefing : "Q Now, this is apparently a federal offense, to burn the cover a CIA operative. . . . Did Karl Rove do it? "MR. McCLELLAN: I said, it's totally ridiculous." On Sept. 30, 2003 , Bush himself was asked if Rove had a role in the CIA leak. "Listen, I know of nobody -- I don't know of anybody in my administration who leaked classified information," he said. "If somebody did leak classified information, I'd like to know it, and we'll take the appropriate action. And this investigation is a good thing."