Time For Questions

Contention reigns today at the White House press briefings. After many rounds of questions re: Rove, David Gregory said that Scott McClellan‘s stonewalling was “ridiculous.”

For anyone who is following the Plame story closely, particularly this weekend’s developments with Karl Rove, Dan Froomkin‘s White House Briefing is a must-read today. He pulls together a lot of varied information, and lays out some questions for his fellow journalists:

• For those covering the latest developments: How does it matter whether Rove literally used Plame’s name or not?

• Why, as the Think Progress blog has been asking, did no one in the White House press corps ask McClellan even one question about Rove’s involvement last week as the story was starting to unfold?

• Has Karl Rove routinely hidden behind confidentiality to spread damaging information about the White House’s enemies?

• Should there maybe be a new category of “I’ll-go-to-jail-for-you” on background reserved exclusively for whistle-blowers?

• Will any of you ever grant Karl Rove confidentiality again?
  

Howard Kurtz‘s chat today is almost entirely about Plame/Miller/Cooper/Rove too.

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