BREAKING NEWS!!!!

Again, via Atrios, Julian Borger of The Guardian says in an audio link:

Several of the journalists are saying privately, yes it was Karl Rove who I talked to. Now, the thing is that the journalists are not going to name Karl Rove publicly because you don't name your sources, and to do so would discredit them as journalists. So the White House is safe for the time being, but Karl Rove's name is very much out there.

Brad DeLong fills in the blanks:

No. No. A thousand times no. That's not what happened. Remember: the two White House officials called at least six different reporter. There were at least six people--prominent people--in the elite press corps who have known the whole story since before July 14. The fact that they thought that keeping their Karl Rove brownie points was more important than informing the citizens of the Republic that among Bush's closest White House aides are those who give aid and comfort to our enemies, et cetera--the fact that they thought keeping their Karl Rove brownie points was more important sheds a very interesting light on the flaws in our current press corps. But Shafer is completely wrong in implying that the press corps was flat-footed, or that it had to learn anything from weblogs.

"Discredit them as journalists," my ass. In other words, the press corps (as I keep reminding you) are a bunch of lazy-ass pussies who hate to have anyone yell at them.

One of the usual exceptions to the laws protecting journalists from revealing their sources is when they witness a crime. Gee, you think that applies here?

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