What if Rove did not know Valerie Plame was a NOC?

This will run somewhat counter to the publications I have already posted, but it is a reasonable situation. What if Rove was used by right-wing Hawks attempting to stick it to their enemies at the CIA?

This is from Justin Raimondo at Anti-War.com.

This isn't about Rove.

It's about a cabal of war hawks inside the administration who passed on this information to others without telling them about Plame-Wilson's deep cover status, perhaps suggesting that she was just an analyst working at a desk rather than a covert operative involved in a vitally important overseas operation, the knowledge of which was highly compartmentalized and only dispensed on a need-to-know basis. When Rove and his shills blabbed to reporters and anyone who would listen, they didn't realize that they were aiding and abetting an elaborate ploy to stick it to the CIA.

Names that appear in this case are Dick Cheney, his chief of staff, Scooter Libby, "...John Hannah, who works in the Office of the Vice President, and David Wurmser, who is a special assistant to John Bolton, the undersecretary of state for arms control and national security."

The speculation is that these neocons may have passed information on Valerie Plame off to the White House Communications Office which then made a decision to smear Joe Wilson.

I think we will learn who did what and reasonably soon. This is what Bilmon had to say about Fitzgerald:

"Fitzgerald is a prosecution machine," the old editor said. "When he wants somebody, he goes after them with whatever he's got. If he can't make the case he started with, he'll figure out what you did do and hit you with that. He's relentless, and he doesn't give a flying fuck about the press or the First Amendment. He'd throw us all in jail if it would help him make his case."

Karl Rove may merely be collateral damage in a much broader set of crimes that centered on the Office of the Vice President and spread to other Neocons.

Even if Karl did not actually set the crime up, his coverup of who did what may well be a crime, and he may have violated other laws. His actions in declaring Valerie Plame "Fair Game" and spreading her name still fit the Constitutional definition of treason of "adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."

Karl is still a person of interest to Fitzgerald, even if not a target of investigation. His status could change overnight. Not a pleasant place to be.