So the Washington Post "leak" was disinformation to distract everyone from the Verizon phone records story? Karl Rove was alleged to have done something simila

So the Washington Post "leak" was disinformation to distract everyone from the Verizon phone records story? Karl Rove was alleged to have done something similar during one of Bush's campaigns: Leak a false version of a true story (I believe it was his draft avoidance, but I can't remember ...) and then provide documentation which discredits the inaccurate version, so no publication was willing to cover the story later, regardless of facts. Is that what's going on here?