For Time Reporter, Decision to Testify Came After... (NO OK FROM ROVE!)

[johnfunk]

Gee, turns out that Karl Rove didn't give Cooper his OK to talk to Fitzpatrick after all...

For Time Reporter, Decision to Testify Came After Frenzied Last-Minute Calls
By ADAM LIPTAK
This article was reported by David Johnston, Jacques Steinberg and Adam Liptak and was written by Mr. Liptak.

WASHINGTON, July 10 - Matthew Cooper, a reporter for Time magazine, stood before a federal judge on Wednesday, facing up to four months in jail for refusing to testify about a confidential source. But he told the judge that he had just received a surprising communication from his source that would allow him to testify before a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative.

"A short time ago," Mr. Cooper said, "in somewhat dramatic fashion, I received an express personal release from my source."

But the facts appear more complicated than they seemed in court. Mr. Cooper, it turns out, never spoke to his confidential source that day, said Robert D. Luskin, a lawyer for the source, who is now known to be Karl Rove, the senior White House political adviser.

The development was actually the product of a frenzied series of phone calls initiated that morning by a lawyer for Mr. Cooper and involving Mr. Luskin and the special prosecutor in the case, Patrick J. Fitzgerald. And the calls were the culmination of days of anxiety and introspection by a reporter who by all accounts wanted to live up to his pledge to protect his confidential source yet find a way to avoid going to jail as another reporter, Judith Miller of The New York Times, was about to do.

Gee -- looks like the so-called liberal press is gonna have to spin that White House narrative yet again to make Rove look as if he did nothing wrong. I mean, Rove never usede the lady's name, even if, as john Aravosis points out so succinctly, he did

Wilson's wife as a CIA agent to a reporter, without attribution, in order that TIME magazine NOT use the information he was secretly slipping them. Because, as we all know, the best way to get a reporter NOT to use secret information is to ACTUALLY GIVE THE SECRET INFORMATION TO THE REPORTER.

Treason.

Full post for above here.

[bear425]

1. So, the OK came from Scooter Libby, vis a vis crashcart.

Bring on the indictments!

[Moderator]

2. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x1617161