It would be interesting, but not particularly surprising to find that the actual source of Rove's knowledge of Valerie Plame as a covert operative might have actually come from Preznit Bunnypants himself. Why? Well, back during Bush I, Junior was an employee at the Crime Family Enterprises Mid-Atlantic HQ at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Joe Wilson was considered by Bush Pere to be somewhat of a hero for his act of standing up to Saddam Hussein.

Bush Pere, of course would have known all about Joe Wilson's wife both by virtue of being Prez and possibly because having been DCI, he still had connections in the building who might have filled him in on the details of the Wilson Family, since Bush I has always been respectful of the mission and duties of CIA.

It's entirely possible that he shared all that with Junior as an "employee" between 1988-1992 when he was explaining how the whole Wilson Family were real American Heros to his misbegotten spawn.

Junior remembers all that when Joe Wilson pops up with something as inconvenient as the truth in the form of factual evidence and publishes it in the NY Times just as he's about to embark on the Codpiece Follies. Beloved Leader calls Rove into the Oval Office, and the conversation goes like this:

[Beloved Leader]Hey, Turd Blossom, step in here a moment, will ya?

[Rove]Ok Boss, on my way

[BL] Say you know that Wilson guy? Well how about tellin' the next pet reporter you talk to that he's as full of shit as a Christmas Goose. We can't have him tellin' the truth about invadin' Iraq. We got oil to steal, and money ta make.

Now, I know for a fact that Joe Wilson's wife does sumpin' secret over at CIA. Let's see if we can use that to shut him up or at least make him look unpatriotic or sumpin'. Get that out to Novak somehow. He's a shifty old bastard who won't talk, and if you can't get it to Novak, use Russert, he's reliable as hell.

[Rove] Be right on it boss. Be right on it.

[BL] Yer a good boy Turd Blossom. Ya make me proud!