There are two very odd stories in the news today. The Associated Press and Reuters are both reporting that all their previous stories on Karl Rove and Scooter Libby could be wrong.Reuters just wrote that three separate CIA accusers are suddenly backing off. They now say that, well, maybe Rove didn’t know that Valerie Plame was undercover, and therefore he couldn’t have deliberately exposed her identity.

    Plame, Wilson’s wife, never worked for WINPAC, which is on the overt side of the CIA. [WINPAC is an analytical unit on unconventional weapons – ed.]. She worked on the CIA’s secret side, the directorate of operations, according to three people familiar with her work for the spy agency.

    The three all spoke on condition of anonymity, citing Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s ongoing grand jury investigation into the leak of Plame’s identity in 2003.


And the Associated Press notes

    The inaccurate information could suggest Libby thought Plame was not an undercover spy, and therefore didn't know her identity was classified. ...as former top FBI official Danny Coulson suggests, it could simply mean that Libby's information came from "dinner talk" involving people who were uninformed.


Of course, its all speculation at this point.