Another Traitorgate crumb for all of us leftie bloggers to leap upon — an email sent by Karl Rove to Steven Hadley about Rove’s July 11 conversation with Matt Cooper. This just-discovered email is another piece of evidence that Rove might have lied to FBI agents and a federal grand jury. Whoopsie!

Michael Isikoff writes in this week’s Newsweek:

… Fitzgerald appears to be focusing in part on discrepancies in testimony between Rove and Time reporter Matt Cooper about their conversation of July 11, 2003. In Cooper’s account, Rove told him the wife of White House critic Joseph Wilson worked at the “agency” on WMD issues and was responsible for sending Wilson on a trip to Niger to check out claims that Iraq was trying to buy uranium. But Rove did not disclose this conversation to the FBI when he was first interviewed by agents in the fall of 2003—nor did he mention it during his first grand jury appearance, says one of the lawyers familiar with Rove’s account. …

… But after he testified, Luskin [Rove’s lawyer] discovered an e-mail Rove had sent that same day—July 11—alerting deputy national-security adviser Stephen Hadley that he had just talked to Cooper, the lawyer says.

In the email, Rove said he had just talked with Cooper about the Niger uranium controversy.

I liked this part:

Why didn’t the Rove e-mail surface earlier? The lawyer says it’s because an electronic search conducted by the White House missed it because the right “search words” weren’t used.

Yeah, they tried Hillary, Saddam, and garden gnome. Yet, somehow, they missed it.

Isikoff also reminds us that a hitherto-unknown Judy Miller notebook recently came to light. The notebook contained notes from a conversation Miller had with Scooter Libby about Joe Wilson and the mission to Africa; Wilson’s identity was not yet public (see timeline in this post). Emptywheel of The Next Hurrah speculates further about Judy.

Speaking of who-knew-what, eriposte at The Left Coaster has evidence that our boy JimmyJeff knew about the classified State Department intelligence memo mentioning Valerie Plame before knowledge of the memo had been made public. There’s background about this memo here.