this sounds like a "try to bury it on friday during a hurricane" story.
Source In CIA Leak Story Reveals Identity To Probers - WP
09/16/2004
Dow Jones News Services
(Copyright © 2004 Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--A Washington Post reporter's confidential source has revealed his or her identity to the special prosecutor conducting the CIA leak inquiry, The Washington Post reports in its Thursday edition.
Post reporter Walter Pincus, who had been subpoenaed to testify to a grand jury in the case, instead gave a deposition in which he recounted his conversation with the source, the Post said. Pincus said he did not name the source and agreed to be questioned only with the source's approval.
"I understand that my source has already spoken to the special prosecutor about our conversation on July 12 [2003], and that the special prosecutor has dropped his demand that I reveal my source. Even so, I will not testify about his or her identity," Pincus said in a prepared statement, according to the Post.
"The source has not discharged us from the confidentiality pledge," said The Post's executive editor, Leonard Downie Jr.
