Are they afraid, or are they just shameless WH whores?

For the fourth straight time since his lawyer admitted that Rove was one of Matt Cooper’s sources, no member of the White House press corps asked a question about Rove’s role.

  Think Progress post

There's a comment to this TP post that I think is interesting:

It has long been rumored that Miller is CIA or with some intelligence group within the pentagon. It was rumored, during the invasion of Iraq, that her activities when she was embedded went far beyond reporting. She was identified as actually calling the shots at certain points so that some military within her group wondered who she really was.

This rumor would dovetail with the notion that her source is someone other than Karl Rove. That her source is someone actually in intelligence. The rumor is that Fitzgerald is pursuing a crime far more serious than just revealing the identity of a CIA covert operative.

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I don't know where this information comes from, because I have not been paying much attention to Judith Miller. It does make sense, however, in light of the fact that she was the "reporter" who got all the exclusive (false) material from Ahmad Chalabi. CIA plants at major newspapers? No doubt. So why not Miller? Or maybe it's not CIA. Maybe it's Rumsfiend's Office of Special Plans or another of the Pentagon's secret intel ops.

Or, maybe she's just another press whore. One of the top tier.

Now, as far as the question that seems to be on many people's minds about why Miller and Cooper were threatened with jail, but Novak was not....

David Corn has an answer.

While other reporters have resolved to be imprisoned to protect their sources—whether these sources deserve protection or not—what has Novak done? The obvious answer: He has squealed.

Yeah, that'd be the obvious one.

Novak either burned his sources, or he named them with their permission. (White House aides, such as Karl Rove and Lewis "Scooter" Libby, have signed waivers allowing reporters to testify about their conversations with them.)

So who was Cooper's recent "source" that gave him permission to talk to the grand jury so he didn't have to go to jail?

Corn thinks that the whole thing will go away with the technicality that Rove and whoever else spilled the beans will claim that they didn't know Valerie Plame was undercover, thereby relieving them of anything illegal in telling Novak about her.

I'm doing a lot of "wondering out loud" here. And I further wonder when Fitzgerald will be ready to bring his case - whatever it's going to be - to court.

It's all going to be a surprise to me.

Except the part about Karl Rove being a lying, mean son-of-a-bitch dirtbag trying to nail Joseph Wilson to the wall.

And I'm still waiting to find out whether White House Press Whore-for-real James Guckert (or whatever his name is) was spending nights at the White House with Buttie or Karl - or maybe both. That story sure suffered sudden death syndrome.