Do I think Karl Rove broke the law? No. I think he left just enough wiggle room to take his shot, then get himself off the hook. Do I think anything the man says is accidental or incompetent? Hell no. The man can slay people from 50 yards away with the sheer power of his brain waves. Do I think he deliberately skirted the law and wrecked that woman's career out of spite? Yep. Why do I feel this way? Because the man has already shown us his venomous, ruthlessly effective ways. Bob Jones. McCain in South Carolina. Kerry and the Swift Boat Vets for Truth. And on and on. At this point, Rove couldn't buy the benefit of the doubt.
What's really curious to me is why he saved that Time reporter from going to prison. This is little reported: the reporter was prepared to go to jail to protect his confidential source (Rove), as other reporters have in the past. At the eleventh hour, Rove waived their confidentiality agreement and thereby allowed all hell to rain down on himself. I want to know why. It surely wasn't out of his profound sense of decency. What's he up to? Who's he protecting?