Bolton's Chief of Staff was the unnamed person in the indictment?

[Roland99]

Is that Mr. X?


RawStory..."developing"
http://www.rawstory.com/

[MidwestTransplant]

1. Mr. X? I thought there was person "A" who was supposedly Rove?

I don't remember an X

[xultar]

2. Ahhhh where ya been. We had about 1000 posts saying A was Rove.

but, on edit other than that I haven't a clue. But for sure A was Rove.

[Liberal Dose]

3. I had to use a cached Think Progress site to find this. I was wondering

what happened to speculation about Mr. X.

From 10/25/05

BREAKING: CBS To Report Fitzgerald Will Make His Decision Known Tomorrow
From the CBS Evening News, to air at 6:30PM:

CBS’ JOHN ROBERTS: Lawyers familiar with the case think Wednesday is when special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald will make known his decision, and that there will be indictments. Supporters say Rove and the vice president’s chief of staff, Scooter Libby, are in legal jeopardy. But they insisted today the two are secondary players, that it was an unidentified Mr. X who actually gave the name of CIA agent V alerie Plame to reporters. Fitzgerald knows who Mr. X is, they say, and if he isn’t indicted, there’s no way Rove or Libby should be. But charges may not focus on the leak at all. Obstruction of justice or perjury are real possibilities. Did Rove or Libby change statements made under oath? Did they deliberately leave critical facts out of their testimony or did they honestly forget? Some Republicans urged Rove to step down if indicted. Not a happy prospect for president Bush.

Any guesses on the identity of Mr. X?

UPDATE: This bit from the CBS segment is also interesting –

SCHIEFFER: John, I am very interested in Mr. X. Is there any clue or hint as to whether he be - maybe someone who outranks Libby and Rove or would he be a lower-ranking official?

ROBERTS: The best guess is that Mr. X, even though his name is not known and some people are just speculating on who he might be or she might be, is somebody who is actually outside the White House, and in that case would be of a lower rank that both Rove and Libby.

[Liberal Dose]

4. Cached Kos, too

Novak the liar
by kos
Mon Oct 31, 2005 at 02:01:45 PM PDT


...Official A" has been widely reported as being Karl Rove, and all the evidence points in that direction.

So question for Bob Novak: you don't think Rove is a, um, "partisan gunslinger"? Or where you just lying?

Update: Pontificator says in the comments:

... technically accurate. Novak was likely referring to his FIRST Senior Administration Source when he said that source was "no partisan gunslinger." That source is still unidentified and is known as "Mr. X" (As opposed to "Afficial A," which is Rove). Rove was his second source, who confirmed Plame's CIA status to Novak when Novak asked him about it.

Again -- a very confusing factual scenario, which allows Novak to be willfully mislead his audience about the true state of the facts, while giving him enough of a figleaf to say that he was being truthful when the identity of Mr. X (Hadley? Wurmser? Hannah?), is later exposed...

Edited to add this ridiculously long link since I don't know how to search archives on Kos.

http://64.233.187.104/search?q=cache:ibz5TB7C71YJ:www.dailykos.com/tag/Karl%2520Rove+%2B%22karl+rove%22+%2Binvestigation+%2B%22mr.+x%22&hl=en

[SpiralHawk]

5. Don't confuse Mr. X with Person A --

Please keep your Republican-BushCo Culture of Corruption Cronies straight*

* (which is a clue that neither of these might not be Jeff "White House Male Prostitute" Gannon)

[Roland99]

12. This refers to the "Undersecretary of State" apparently.

[yellowcanine]

6. I don't know but it is all starting to sound like a James Bond flick.

Mr. X, Person A, blonde female spy married to a diplomat, a female reporter gets tossed in jail, aspens turning in the fall......

I sure hope someone is writing this all down and can turn it into a good spy novel.

[yellowcanine]

7. I think Mr. X killed the blonde female spy in the drawing room with the

candle stick.

[MadisonProgressive]

8. No, that was Mr. Mustard

[yellowcanine]

9. I thought Mr. Mustard shot the ambassador in the garden with the

blunderbuss.

[GumboYaYa]

10. Mr. X gave the name to Novak, Official A confirmed it.

Official A is alleged to be Rove.

[Roland99]

11. Here's the full skinny from RawStory

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Laywers_involved_in_leak_case_say_1102.html