It's a C-O-N-spiracy!

The White House has shit the bed and the Karl Rove story is exploding everywhere. Joseph Wilson, husband to Valerie Plame, the CIA agent who was identified through a leak by Karl Rove, is speaking out today and calling this fiasco a White House cover up.

"What this thing has been for the past two years has been a cover-up, a cover-up of the... web of lies that underpin the justification for going to war in Iraq," said Plame's husband, Joseph Wilson, a former career foreign-service officer who held diplomatic posts in the first Bush administration and served in the Clinton White House. "And to a certain extent, this cover-up is becoming unraveled. That's why you see the White House stonewalling," Wilson said in an interview with NBC's "Today" show.

A growing number of Democrats have called for Rove to resign. Wilson, who briefly served as an adviser to the campaign of Bush's 2004 presidential opponent, Sen. John Kerry said he thought the president should fire his adviser. "The president really should stand up and prove to the American people that his word is his bond and fire Karl Rove," said Wilson.

Wilson scoffed at the notion that Rove did not use his wife's name or that he did not realize she was an undercover agent. "My wife's name is Wilson, it is Mrs. Joseph Wilson, it is Valerie Wilson. He named her, he identified her. That argument I don't believe passes the smell test," said Wilson.

"What I do know is that Mr. Rove was talking to the press and saying things like, my wife is 'fair game.' That is an outrage. It is an abuse of power," Wilson added.

And on your way out, be sure to sign the "Fire Karl Rove!" petition started by Air America Radio and maybe even pick up a spiffy t-shirt. It will go nicely with your "Free Katie" gear.