Did Washington Post’s Leonard Downie just tell Chris Matthews on “Hard Ball” that Bob Woodward’s secret source is a male? Mr. Downie referred to the “confidential source” as “he”.

Chris Matthews is tauting Vice President Cheney as the secret third source, yet Bob Woodward described his three sources as current and former administration officials. With Andrew Card and Scooter Libbey as the two sources already identified, that would mean that the remaining third would be one who no longer works for the administration.