How Do You CLARIFY A Rumor You Started Yourself?

So, lemme see, Scooter Libby called everyone up and asked them if they’d heard this rumor, then Karl Rove called them up and “clarified” the misinformation in the rumor…

(Salon) Is Rove in hotter water than we think? But how interesting… “Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the case, may be looking instead at another law — the Espionage Act of 1917, which makes it a crime to disclose any classified information, even if the disclosure is accidental.”