I don’t often veer into the political mode in here. But this, at the bottom of a Seattle Times article this morning, caught my eye:
The leaking of Plame’s identity recalls an incident from the 1992 presidential campaign, in which Rove was fired from the elder Bush’s re-election team because of suspicions that he had leaked information to columnist Robert Novak — the same columnist who first reported Plame’s CIA role in 2003, citing anonymous administration sources.
At the time, Bush’s campaign was in trouble, and there was concern he might not even win his home state of Texas. The Novak column described a Dallas meeting in which the campaign’s state manager, Robert Mosbacher, was stripped of his authority, because the Texas effort was viewed as a bust.
Mosbacher complained, expressing his suspicion that Rove was the leaker. Rove denied the charge, but he was fired nevertheless.
Hmm…
