As we have been preparing to roast weenies and chill Bud, Karl Rove has been slowly stewing in his own juices by the disclosures to Newsweek that he "never knowingly disclosed classified information" to a reporter who later confirmed the outing of a CIA agent. Rove denies (or, rather, his lawyer denies) telling "any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA." Let's watch as those words get parsed, spun, and revised as intelligent Americans everywhere start squeezing at the truth.

The phrase "never knowingly disclosed" is the one I want to parse. Why include the word "knowingly"? Should not the genius of the Whitehouse know that he is disclosing classified info?