By: Joe Strupp The Washington Post might reveal the confidential source who leaked the identity of CIA Agent Valeria Plame to Bob Woodward if other reporters at the paper discovered the name, Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie Jr. told The New York Times.
Downie, who has said he knows the identity of the person about whom Woodward testified to Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald on Monday, told the Times that Woodward's promise of non-disclosure does not extend to other reporters at the paper.
"Each reporter is bound only by his own promises of confidentiality," Downie was quoted as saying in Friday's Times.
Woodward, who was not quoted in the story and could not be reached for comment by E&P because he is traveling, testified about three sources in the case Monday. The other sources, who did not discuss Plame's identity to Woodward, were later revealed to be former White House Aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card. Both have given a waiver for the Post to reveal their identities.
The third source, who has become the center of immense speculation in Washington, reportedly asked Woodward to testify about their conversation, but has not given permission to be revealed publicly.
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