But he didn't swallow!

So, Karl Rove was behind the Valerie Plame leak. Gosh, who knew? I'm so not surprised.

Now he's trying to define what is, is. According to the WP, this is his story...

"White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove spoke with at least one reporter about Valerie Plame's role at the CIA before she was identified as a covert agent in a newspaper column two years ago, but Rove's lawyer said yesterday that his client did not identify her by name."

Come on. That goes right up there with "...but I didn't inhale."

Effectively, what he's saying is that he told reporters 'Wilson's wife is an undercover CIA agent and I want to imply that Wilson is using her position to gather information to discredit the President's bogus intel, but if I don't actually tell you her name, even though we all either know what that is or can very easily figure it out, I'm not technically guilty of any crime.'

So, in other words, he drank the kool-aid at the White House, but didn't swallow. Please.