When I first heard about Lawrence O'Donnell's claim that Karl Rove was the source that New York Times journalist Michael Cooper was protecting, I took the measure with a grain of salt.  After all, this is the same O'Donnell that made himself look like a raving lunatic during Election 2004 during a head-to-head segment with Swift Boat Vet John O'Neill, calling him a creep and a liar to drown out O'Neill while he was speaking on the show.

Besides, the far left has always seen Rove as the true antichrist, the one who poses as Dubya's right hand man while behind the scenes he runs the whole country.  Thus, he's been the subject of so many conspiracy theories that I couldn't possibly keep count.  If something happens that the left doesn't like, Karl Rove's name pops up.  If you leave it to the left to describe Rove, he is the World's Dangerous Man. 

Thus, you really can't take them seriously once you find out their feelings for Rove.  Once O'Donnell stated Rove was the source, the left immediately screamed bloody murder.  I find it highly ironic that the left would try to vigorously defend Plame although her husband is an outright liar, and was given the investigation in Niger through his wife's connections in the CIA.  Besides the obvious nepotism, the left has never cared about the CIA, and through the 70's called for its demise.  They have the nerve to claim Rove should be tried for treason, yet they conviently ignore some of the outrageous statements and actions they have done that were far more damaging to this country, all to protect and defend a liar and the wife who got him the job in the first place.

This time, however, it seems O'Donnell and the Rovian conspiracy theorists were correct.  Rove was Cooper's source, and Rove's lawyer has now come out and stated he never "outed" Valerie Plame, and the emails will show that he only advised the NYT to be cautious when writing about Wilson's investigation into the Nigerian documents. 

I placed the emphasis on "outed" because Plame really wasn't a covert agent, nor was she trying to be.  The main reason why Novak isn't facing charges is due to the fact that several journalists knew Plame's identity before the Novak column.  Even now, Plame has no problems taking pictures for this month's Vanity Fair.  Just as Wilson's investigation turned out to be a fraud, so does the idea that Plame was "outed" by the White House.

More on this later.