Lest we forget...

Old habits are hard to break.
(aka) Those who fail to learn from the past (and aren't prosecuted) are doomed to repeat it.

From Salon

When Karl Rove was little known outside Texas political circles, he was fired from George H.W. Bush's 1992 reelection campaign for leaking information to syndicated columnist Robert Novak. According to newspaper reports at the time, Rove was terminated for passing information to Novak from a meeting of the president's chief advisors. Rove denied he was the leaker.

Today, with another Bush in office, a journalist is being jailed to protect a source that led Novak to name a CIA operative, Valerie Plame. There is fevered speculation that Novak's source was, once again, Karl Rove.

Beyond Salon I have yet to hear any other media outlets pick up on this story.

I really think questions to George Jr. asking why his father had the guts to take care of business that he doesn't would steam him up pretty good. He's always had a thing about trying to top daddy. The analysts would have a field day with Bush on the couch.

Update: Looks like LA Times picked up the story on the 13th.

During George H.W. Bush's second presidential campaign, Rove was fired from the campaign team because of suspicions that he had leaked information to columnist Robert Novak — the same columnist who first reported Plame's CIA role in 2003, citing anonymous administration sources.

At the time, Bush's campaign was in trouble, and there was concern that the president might not even win his home state of Texas. The Novak column described a Dallas meeting in which the campaign's state manager, Robert Mosbacher, was stripped of his authority because the Texas effort was viewed as a bust.

Mosbacher complained, expressing his suspicion that Rove was the leaker. Rove denied the charge, but was fired nevertheless.

I'd love to hear Good Morning America or Today Show have an interview Mosbacher and get his two cents in telling this tale from the past.