On Capitol Hill, 17 members of Congress are calling on Karl Rove to resign if he won’t publicly explain his role in the outing of CIA operative Valerie Plame. This comes as Newsweek is reporting that it has obtained an email from Time Magazine reporter Matthew Cooper that confirms Rove spoke with Cooper about Plame — days before her name first appeared in a column by Robert Novak. Rove’s attorney has now admitted that his client mentioned to Cooper that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA but claims that Rove did not reveal her name. It is a felony to knowingly reveal the identity of an undercover operative.