Look What I Found!

"Home again, hm. What a sight to see afte 85 days. Let's just do some tidying up... These couch cushions could use a good dusting... Hey, look at this...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller discovered notes from an earlier conversation she had with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff and turned them over the prosecutor investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's identity, legal sources said on Friday.

Miller's notes about a June 2003 conversation with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, could be important to prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's case by establishing exactly when Libby and other administration officials first started talking to reporters about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson.

...I really need to clean out those couch cushions more often."

The notion that she "just found" these notes ranks up there with Rush Limbaugh just now finding OxyContin bottles all over the house. Who does she think she's kidding?

P.S. Murray Waas has a story up in the National Journal with a lot of juicy background on Plame-Gate, particularly with respect to Karl Rove. I'll whet your appetite with the opening line:

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove personally assured President Bush in the early fall of 2003 that he had not disclosed to anyone in the press that Valerie Plame, the wife of an administration critic, was a CIA employee, according to legal sources with firsthand knowledge of the accounts that both Rove and Bush independently provided to federal prosecutors.

This is also what he said to the grand jury, directly contradicted by Matt Cooper, who backs up his story with emails and phone records. They call it "perjury," I'm told.