The mysterious saga of Karl Rove’s non-indictment keeps getting weirder and weirder (if you need to catch up, read Byron and Seixon). The left-wing web site Truthout’s most recent defense of its increasingly bogus-looking story includes this intriguing paragraph:

We have been contacted by at least three reporters from mainstream media – network level organizations – who shared with us off-the-record confirmation and moral support. When we asked why they were not going public with this information, in each case they expressed frustration with superiors who would not allow it.

Who are Truthout’s MSM collaborators? Their sudden appearance in this strange tale seems to indicate that the same sources who fed bunk info to Jason Leopold have also been talking to MSM reporters — probably for a lot longer than just the past few weeks. If so, who knows how much reporting about the Scooter Libby case could derive from these anonymous fabricators?