Reply #35: Even if it (the original leak) is on Wurmser, it's still conspiracy.

[Kagemusha]

After all, let's say he did leak the name to the media. Reporters then call up Karl Rove and Scooter Libby and try to get confirmed information they already illicitly know and Rove and Libby drag their feet and hem and haw and go, "Ok, yes, his wife did work at the CIA, and... no, I've already told you too much." (Rove) This after having been privately briefed on the matter by Wurmser.

Now, if Wurmser either didn't know or didn't pass on that Plame was covert, and none of the others thought to make sure she wasn't, they're all potentially culpable. And if Wurmser was the "plausible deniability" man enabling Rove and Libby to say that they first heard about Plame from the media, when they knew damn well who she was from Wurmser himself (as did the reporters), then he is the lynch pin of the conspiracy.

So no, this does not have the effect of putting it all on Wurmser. Not one little bit.