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Monday, July 18, 2005

Rove-mania, Week 2

Posted by on July 18 at 8:37 AM

Karl Rove is on the cover of both Time and Newsweek this week. Welcome to week two of the scandal that won’t die, or at least won’t die until October, when time runs out on the grand jury that is investigating who in the Bush administration leaked the name of an undercover CIA operative.

Time has the best scoop: An insider account of the grand-jury proceedings, written by a Time reporter who testified before the grand jury last week. For those following the sprawling cast of scandal characters closely enough to know their names, Time also breaks the news that Lewis Libby (the Vice President’s top aide) was talking anonymously to reporters about the CIA agent at the same time as Rove.

For those confused, The Washington Post, via The Seattle Times, backs way up and lays it all out.