Did Time intentionally deceive its readers in Plame case?

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For some time, the central mystery in the Valerie Plame saga was which members of the White House staff leaked the undercover CIA operative's identity to reporters. Although there are still many unanswered questions, at least part of the mystery has been solved: Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper has testified that he was told about Plame by White House senior adviser Karl Rove and I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. Yet while Cooper and his editors at Time spent two years keeping Rove and Libby's -- and their own -- role a secret, they published articles that reported, without challenge, a statement from the White House that they knew to be false.

The issue of Time's actions over the past two years was revived by an August 25 Los Angeles Times http://www.latimes.com/services/site/premium/access-registered.intercept">article stating that the magazine did not pursue a waiver from Rove allowing Cooper to testify in part because "Time editors were concerned about becoming part of such an explosive story in an election year." While the favor this "concern" did for the Bush re-election effort has been http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/index.html?blog=/politics/war_room/2005/08/25/plame/index.html">criticized, Time's lack of disclosure about its own role in the affair has gone largely unnoticed.

As the Los Angeles Times laid out the chronology, the details of which became publicly known only earlier this summer, on July 11, 2003, Rove told Cooper that the wife of former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV worked for the CIA and had a role in sending Wilson on a 2002 mission to Niger to investigate claims that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium there. After speaking to Rove, Cooper sent an email to Michael Duffy, Time's Washington bureau chief, relating what Rove had told him about Wilson's wife and saying that Rove had spoken on "double super secret background." The next day, Cooper spoke to Libby, who confirmed Plame's identity. Two days later, Robert D. Novak's infamous http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20030714.shtml">column revealing Plame's identity appeared.

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[mattclearing]

1. Heaven forbid they report news during an election cycle! n/t

[BlueJac]

2. Why Certainly

[wli]

3. guaranteed n/t

[K-W]

4. Sure looks like it. I sent this to everyone I know who subscribes.

Ive been trying to get my parents to cancel thier subscription for years.

[MasonJar]

5. The London papers did; they were front and center on the DSM

while Blair was running. That is what papers are supposed to do.

[seemslikeadream]

6. Sure did.

Ya think that would be some kinda crime or somethin'

http://www.bartcop.com.nyud.net:8090/judith-miller-pail.jpg