Okay, so now Cooper didn't get permission from his source(rover)?

[cynatnite]

snip:
"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.

snip:
While Ms. Miller had consistently refused to testify, Mr. Cooper had already given testimony once in the investigation, in August 2004, describing conversations he had had with I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff.

snip:
"If Matt Cooper is going to jail to protect a source," Mr. Luskin told The Journal, "it's not Karl he's protecting."

That provided an opening, Mr. Cooper said. "I was not looking for a waiver," he said, "but on Wednesday morning my lawyer called and said, 'Look at The Wall Street Journal. I think we should take a shot.' And I said, 'Yes, it's an invitation.' "

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/politics/11time.html?ei=5088&en=0409b38747d04252&ex=1278734400&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print

[Garbo 2004]

1. Maybe Cooper got super duper double top secret permission on deep

background. ;)

[TomClash]

2. Maybe Mandy should divorce him nt

[CoffeeCat]

3. They never "spoke"

Luskin says that Rove "never spoke to his confidential source that day."

Notice the word, "spoke."

Rove may not have "spoke" to Cooper, but Rove did flash his Super Secret Captain Crunch decoder ring into the sun--at a precise trajectory that splashed a coded message onto Cooper's veranda.

Watch out for Luskin! He loves to play verbal gymnastics with the truth.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. I think the word you're looking for is "conduit."

Luskin is a conduit between Rove and Cooper.

[Justice]

7. Why is Luskin saying anything? He is going to get himself drawn into it,

he is becoming a player rather than a lawyer.

He has done more attempted fancy footwork - he keeps being shown to be misrepresenting.

[DoYouEverWonder]

5. Makes you wonder

what else this asshole is lying about? Seems its standard operating procedure for him. I just hope he does it in court under oath, so they can nail him for perjury.

[The Backlash Cometh]

6. Oh, what wicked web. I had a hunch that Cooper would buckle at

some point. I have a question, though. What was the opening in the Wall Street Journal? The fact that Luskin said, "it's not Karl he's protecting?" So the fact that Luskin was pushing out disinformation actually backfired on him?

[Democrat 4 Ever]

8. Cooper has the backbone of a wet noodle. Boo Hoo, he didn't

want to say good bye to his six-year old son. Well, for the record, I'm assuming the soldiers serving in Iraq didn't want to say good bye to their children either. Hey, Cooper, at least you would be nice and safe in a Fed Club Med prison and not going to a place without proper protection, bombs and sh*t going off, horrible weather, bad food facing a group of people who really, really dislike you and are willing to prove it.

Somehow Cooper has become this "upstanding" father because he was afraid his son would miss him or be confused so he decided to could rat out his sources. That's for the record, in reality, Cooper is just another chickensh*t who can beat the drum for Rove/Chimpy & Co from the security of an office building in DC but don't ask him to stand on principle or ethics. These guys are completely shameless. (Hope that whole cabal of crooks, thieves and liars in DC understand that when the trials come that Chimpy will sing like a canary to save his own sorry butt.)

That said, I'm glad that Cooper decided to channel his source's permission and we are getting to the story, but I'm betting he will have lots of trouble getting any stories written in the future.