TreasonGate: The "Plot" Thickens

I've refrained as of late from posting much on the TreasonGate Scandal, mostly because I feel the investigation is in pretty good hands and I kind of grew tired of all the speculation.

But this is too good to pass up:

The [Washington Post] reported that Woodward told Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, who is investigating the leak of Plame's identity, that the official talked to him about Plame in mid-June 2003. Woodward and editors at the Post refused to identify the official to reporters other than to say it was not Libby.

Mark Corallo, a spokesman for Karl Rove's legal team, said Rove was not the official who talked to Woodward. Rove is a top deputy to President Bush and was referred to, but not by name, in Libby's indictment, as having discussed Plame's identity with reporters.

John Aravosis at AmericaBlog sums it up well: "I'm sorry, but we now have Karl, Scooter, and a third senior official all just 'happening' to be telling numerous journalists that Amb. Wilson's wife is a CIA agent, yet we're to believe that this is NOT part of a coordinated conspiracy to spread that info?"

Raw Story is reporting that this third senior official is Stephen Hadley. Interestingly, Hadley was reportedly telling friends last month that he expects to be indicted.

Meanwhile, on a completely related subject, Josh Marshall has this:

So it looks like the November 14th deadline Bill Frist set for a plan to pursue "phase two" of the senate Iraq intel investigation has come and gone. There's been progress apparently. But no resolution. No plan on looking into what happened in Doug Feith's office. And apparently no agreement from the majority as to whether the committee will actually be able to interview any of the key people in the administration. Roberts, Frist and Co. are still stonewalling for the White House.