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?