Anyone remember this? Karl Rove leaked Valarie Plame’s role as a CIA operative.

Now, again via C&L, it appears Karl Rove continues to mess with CIA personal for political gain. Not that it worked; still.

I’m smelling a Rove rat. Are you? Why the silence from Cantor? Clearly Reichert tipped Cantor off in the hopes of using this information in some way. The Petraeus/Rove relationship is real and long-standing. Is it possible that Paula was passing Rove information to use against President Obama in his re-election bid?

So, there is a timeline of events, more or less unrelated.

• June 11, 2012 – Broadwell pictured with Rove, who tweets about it in June.
• June-August, 2012 – FBI receives complaint about “harassing emails” sent by Broadwell to Jill Kelley
• October 26, 2012 – Fox News “Exclusive” claiming CIA requested and was refused reinforcements.
• October 26, 2012 – Broadwell pimps the Fox News version of events at a University of Denver symposium
• October 28, 2012 – Rove hammers and expands on it in an interview on Fox News
• Approximately October 28-31, 2012 – FBI confronts Petraeus and interviews him about emails, determines no breaches of national security have taken place.
• October 31, 2012 – Cantor Chief of Staff contacted by Rep. Dave Reichert about FBI ‘whistleblower’. Cantor says he contacted the FBI immediately.
• November 6, 2012 – Barack Obama wins re-election
• November 6, 2012 – James Clapper (Director of National Intelligence) informed of FBI investigation
• November 8, 2012 – Petraeus submits resignation
• November 9, 2012 – Resignation accepted

So, what is the deal here? There is something more to this story. Was it suppose to hurt President Obama? Obviously it did not. Instead, it looks to have backfired? Will Karl Rove finally be frog marched?