Reporter Went From Protecting to Talking

[maddezmom]

Thursday July 14, 2005 1:01 AM


WASHINGTON (AP) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller is in jail. Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper talked.

Cooper testified to a federal grand jury Wednesday, and afterward he and his lawyer, Richard Sauber, detailed the path the magazine journalist took.

A federal prosecutor wanted Cooper to give up a confidential source, Karl Rove, who leaked information that appeared calculated to undercut the credibility of a former U.S. ambassador and Bush administration critic, Joseph C. Wilson.

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The landscape changed, according to Cooper's attorney, when Rove's lawyer said publicly that his client had not asked any reporter to treat him as a confidential source in the matter.

Sauber called Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, who checked with special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. That resulted in Luskin's initialing a deal that freed Cooper to talk, an hour before a court hearing a week ago where a judge was preparing to send Cooper to jail.

more:http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-5139539,00.html

Check out the link at the end:
http://wid.ap.org/documents/050713confidentiality.pdf

[AndyTiedye]

1. What Does "Double Super-Secret Deep-Background" Mean Then?

his client had not asked any reporter to treat him as a confidential source in the matter.

[tanyev]

2. Double Super Secret Deep Background.

Ever get the feeling these guys get a huge kick out of playing with all their spies and army men? It's all one big game to them.

[woodsprite]

4. You should photoshop *'s face on that pic. n/t

[tanyev]

6. Oooo...good idea.

I would if I could.

[joeunderdog]

3. If Rove is the FallGuy....

then who up above is he protecting? The answer may lie in the fact that Shrub and Dickie both got lawyers when this story broke. Why get a lawyer if you are looking for answers?

So Miller goes to jail and protects the pieces of the puzzle that finger Cheney and/or Bush, with the hopes that Fitzgerald is satisfied with Rove as the big fish.

Rove and Miller are taking one for the team. Fitzgerald is still pissed at both Miller and the WH for screwing him in the Islamic charity investigation, so I'm banking he doesn't just get happy with Rove. The CIA want this too...what little there is left from the part that may still seek the truth.

Stay the course...stay the course...

[ROakes1019]

5. Rove

A question no one seems to be asking is how Rove got the classified information on Valerie Plame. This sort of information should only be given on a need to know and what need to know reason could Rove have given? Isn't it more likely someone higher up, like Cheney or Bush, got ahold of this classified information, just as Bolton snooped around getting classified information to use against enemies? Bush is protecting Rove for two reasons: He's can't wipe his ass without Rove and he needs Rove to select the next Supreme Court Justice; He is in as deep as Rove and knows Rove isn't likely to be so loyal as to keep quiet when he could save his own ass.