This was the first time I had heard anything about Wilson's wife. Rove never once indicated to me that she had any kind of covert status.

I would prefer that they did not.

We came out ready to play, but we got a little unlucky.

[He quipped that his wife bemoaned one day,] Are you watching another prison movie? ... The Sons of Zion.

I just didn't do what I needed to do.

In the studio that went unnoticed for the full hour... Like Matt Cooper, Russert had testified to the grand jury on the Plame affair, yet at no point during the interview did the salient fact sally forth to the viewer. The pretense was uninvolved journalist interviewing involved participant: the reality was one pea in the pod interviewing a fellow pea.

Jim, WHAT THE $%^&% HAPPENED!?

I was likened to Neville Chamberlain. I was a Quisling, to the (journalism) profession.