Time Reporter Shows Up in Federal Court (* and pickles standing by Rove)

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, a key figure in the Karl Rove controversy, showed up at U.S. District Court on Wednesday. The grand jury investigating the leak was meeting, and it was expected Cooper would testify. He did not comment while entering the courthouse.

Meanwhile, President Bush and first lady Laura Bush are standing by Rove, whose role in the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identity has prompted Democrats to call for dismissal of the president's top political adviser.

Cooper wrote an article in 2003 in which he identified the officer as Valerie Plame. It was disclosed this week that the story ran after a July 11, 2003, conversation with Rove during which the political adviser discussed Plame but not by name.

Cooper had refused to reveal his source for the story but agreed to do so after a confidentiality agreement was waived. That came just before Cooper could have been sent to jail for not cooperating with the investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked her name and whether that constituted a crime.

more:http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050713/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cia_leak_investigation_13

[sabra]

1. I am glad they are standing by "their man", they will join the sinking

ship!

[meganmonkey]

2. I'm glad they're calling it 'the Karl Rove controversy'

That is some good framing!

[goclark]

3. Pickles told Africans they were "neat" and "impressive"

These are the words of a librarian representing our country.


Please someone , bring her home now!

Neat is not the word.

[maddezmom]

4. neat?

did she mean tidy? or cool? :D

[tenshi816]

7. LOL - I was wondering the same thing.

You'd think someone who loves books as much as Pickles says she does would have a more impressive vocabulary, wouldn't you?

[Roland99]

8. She is just totally freakin' clueless

[central scrutinizer]

5. they must be really desperate to hide behind Pickles

they only drag her along to help deflect the hard questions.

[lumpy]

6. Bush hides behind skirts;

his women's skirts. The Bush women have been brought into the administration representing the people of the US, at our expense. we are not an aristocracy yet, but getting close.