And some analysis, Things worse than jail?:

There's more.

Radical Russ also has some fascinating freeper quotes about why it doesn't matter if Rove leaked Valerie Plame's identify:

Abu Ghraib fuels Muslim hatred of U.S.

Click through to Radical Writ for the stinging punch line *Of course . . .

If they are siphoning off money from the two wars, from bribes and payoffs, from hidden investments and war profiteering, then it is being sheltered somewhere. And they have to have bankers to take care of it all.

Why am I so certain that they have stolen millions, if not billions? Because his two daughters act like they are literal royalty. They have no inclination to get a job, develop a career, or even be polite to people. That sort of entitlement only comes to children who know that they never, ever, ever have to work a day in their lives or count on anyone for anything.

And don't forget Murray Waas's American Prospect piece of 3/8/04:

Rove and other White House officials described to the FBI what sources characterized as an aggressive campaign to discredit Wilson through the leaking and disseminating of derogatory information regarding him and his wife to the press, utilizing proxies such as conservative interest groups and the Republican National Committee to achieve those ends, and distributing talking points to allies of the administration on Capitol Hill and elsewhere. Rove is said to have named at least six other administration officials who were involved in the effort to discredit Wilson.

What "conservative interest groups" were doing Rove's bidding? "Talking points" were distributed - to whom? Might Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly be listed as those "allies of the administration"? If they leaked this to Novak, what other journalists are on their "go-to" lists? And this doesn't sound like a new situation for the White House - what other disinformation/destruction campaigns have they run?

And who is getting the payoffs from Rove? Novak wouldn't run with this stuff just because he likes the Bushevekis. They are paying for public opinion - those are the names that also need to emerge.

Because if Rove, Bush, Cheney, Abrams, Bolton and all this crew are going to be revealed and jailed, their waterbearers on conservative radio and cable need to go, too.

So if theyre federal, USAF documents, why didn't the federal government investigate them when all the allegations of their falsity came out in September? Why has no one in the federal government ever even suggested an official inquiry into these allegedly forged papers?
It is the duty of the federal government to maintain the integrity of its documents and to prosecute any wrongdoing concerning them. This duty is so inherent to the federal government, it almost goes without saying--untill now. Now its not?
Why didn't the federal government investigate the CBS papers?? Because they reveal and illuminate crimes  committed by Bush's superiors: altering federal USAF documents about George Bush to hide his dereliction of duty: refusing to take his flight physical, which ended his flight career.
The papers tell a story that Bush has never told: how and why he was suspended from flying, told by his CO, Col Jerry Killian. Killiian agrees to alter Bush's documents ("...I will backdate but not rate....") and the proof that he did is in the Bush posted documents themselves, like this one:
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What Killian did do in this document is move ("backdate") Bush's exit from his unit from Sep 15th 1972, when Bush received his actual orders to Alabama, to May 15th, almost 4 months earlier. This was done in spite of a 10 document paper trail showing Bush to be in his unit after he said Bush had left it. Documents like this:
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and this: http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/grounded.gif
This covers the date of Bush's suspension--Killian and Harris are saying he wasn't there when he unquestionably was!!
Col Killian did, absolutely, no doubt about it, "backdate but not rate" Bush on this OETR, just like he says in the 7th CBS document (ref above)  This is a crime!! Falsifying federal documents!! A commander can't enter information he knows to be false on an official USAF form!!
But Killian did it!! There's the evidence!! And there's a lot more, involving Killian, and Col Bobby Hodges and Maj Rufus Martin!!
What Bush did was "ghost" a submilitary term meaning not to be there while  counted as being there. An earlier generation referred to this as goldbricking.
Bush's superiors carried him on the books of the 111th as a pilot, and paid him as a pilot, for pilot service he did not perform!! He could NOT have performed it--he was suspended from flying!! This is FRAUD!! He was also discharged on the basis of points given him for this "ghost" (nonexistent) duty. THIS IS ALSO FRAUD!!
He should have been reclassified and reassigned--here's the proof: http://users.cis.net/coldfeet/doc12.gif
 "This Officer should have been reassigned in May 1972 since he is no longer training in his AFSC or with his unit of assignment." (6/29/73)
Over a year afterwards and the high command is telling Bush's superiors he should have been reassigned in May 72. That's because they kept him on the books as a pilot for over a year after they had suspended him. Notice also theyre saying Bush wasn't there for the whole year, like Killian and Harris say it also--but how did Bush get paid for pilot duty in the 111th in Jan and Apr of 1973 (Pay records: http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/gwbush/gwb72-73milpay-p1.html ) if he wasn't there?? This is FRAUD!!

That--and more!!--is why the Bush administration HAD to get the CBS papers declared false without the official investigation that the situation  demands. These are USAF documents that, if forged, libel the President and several other USAF officers, and, though these have been discredited in the media and internet, they have never been proven false by the agencies specifically tasked to protect the integrity of federal documents: in this case, the USAF IG and the USAF OSI. And so far, the USAF IG and the USAF OSI have been derelict in their duty to investigate
It is the DUTY of the USAF to investigate allegedly false USAF documents, IT IS THEIR DUTY!! And it is the duty of the rest of the federal government also!!Why has the USAF shirked their duty to investigate allegedly false USAF documents?? THAT IS THE QUESTION WE NEED TO KEEP ASKING!! And demand an answer!!

Even if you don't agree with me that these papers are real and show proof of crimes committed DEMAND A FEDERAL INVESTIGATION!! IT'S THEIR DUTY!! And theyre avoiding it!!
What do we pay the USAF IG, the USAF OSI and the FBI for anyway? Demand they quit shirking their duty and do the job they get paid for: Maintainng the integrity of USAF documents
America needs to know the truth abot these papers!! And they won't get it from Bush!!

It does not appear that way from the Newsweek article you quoted above.  Directly following that paragraph about Cooper talking about  Libby Michael Isikoff says

What I think that we need to assume from this is that in fact Rove, like Liddy, authorized Cooper to talk and he has.  From that it follows that there must have been someone else who was the key leaker here as far as Special Prosecutor Fitzgerald is concerned. And that someone other than Rove, who has not yet signed a waiver, probably has not been asked to sign such a waiver because he is not obviously connected with the Whitehouse.

What we may be looking at here is some sort of bank shot by Rove where he planted this story somewhere else that is not easy to trace to him. That would be very much in keeping with Rove's MO.  For example see this article by Joshua Green about how Rove leaked the false rumor that former Alabama Justice Kennedy was a homosexual pedophile resulting in his decision not to run for reelection

If this was the sort of tactic Rove used here, he may have perjured himself before the grand jury when asked about any other conversations on the subject before the grand jury.  He didn't have his lawyer with him and Rove is not a lawyer himself.  It may be that if Fitzgerald could get the name of  Coopers main source and question him, that would lead to the information needed to prove that Rove is not only behind the leak, but is guilty of perjury.  But Cooper's promise to some source who is probably far from the Whitehouse may remain the key roadblock to proving that Rove planted the story and outright lied about it. 

I like freedom of the press as much as anyone, but there is a chance of getting Rove to do that frog march thing I wouldn't mind using a few stress positions on a few reporters.