Rove Thowing Cheney Under The Bus?

Whether he's doing it out of disdain for the VP, or to save his own sorry ass, it more and more appears that Karl Rove is trying to throw Dick Cheney under the bus. Rove has been cooperating with Patrick Fitzgerald in the Valerie Plame case and is reported to be the one who led Fitzgerald to the missing 250 pages of e-mail from the Vice President's office. From Raw Story:

According to one source close to the case, Rove is providing information on deleted emails, erased hard drives and other types of obstruction by staff and other officials in the Vice President's office. Pentagon sources close to Rove confirmed this account.

None would name the staffers and/or officials whom Rove is providing information about. They did, however, explain that the White House computer system has "real time backup" servers and that while emails were deleted from computers, they were still retrievable from the backup system. By providing the dates and recipient information of the deleted emails, sources say, Rove was able to chart a path for Fitzgerald directly into the office of the Vice President.

As any rat does, Rove denies a deal had been made through his lawyer, which is refuted by Raw Story's source. Also from Raw Story:

"Your story is false and utterly without foundation," he said. "There has never been any discussion of any deal of any kind involving Mr. Rove. His cooperation has at all times been voluntary and unconditional."

One of the sources close to the investigation said he was not surprised by Luskin's response.

"That would be difficult for Rove to admit," the source said. "I think Rove is now considered a special cooperating witness."

I always thought dough boy looked like a fink.