Plamegate, cont'd

Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan has asked Karl Rove to resign over the Plame scandal.

Conyers charges in a letter addressed to "Bush's Brain" that "while you may or may not have been the source of the Robert Novak column which revealed the status and name of a covert operative...you were involved in a subsequent effort to push this classified information to other reporters and give it even wider currency. This itself may be a federal crime, but regardless of that fact, your actions are morally indefensible. In my view, it is shameful and unethical that an Administration that promised to govern with 'honor and integrity' and 'change the tone' in Washington has now engaged in an orchestrated campaign to smear and intimidate truth-telling critics, placing them in possible physical harm and impairing the efforts and operations of the CIA."

In a related story, Warren P. Strobel of Knight Ridder elaborates on just how much damage the Plame leak might have caused.

Update: The Washington Post keeps on top of the Plame scandal with this story from Sunday's edition. Amongst a variety of clarifying details, the piece again confirms the point that 6 journalists were solicited by "two top White House officials" with Plame's identity before Bob Novak's now infamous column.