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The Talk Shows Sunday, July 17th, 2005 Guests to be interviewed today on major television talk shows: FOX NEWS SUNDAY (Fox Network): Sens. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., and Mary Landrieu, D-La.; Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif.MEET THE PRESS (NBC): Time magazine reporter Matt Cooper; Republican National Committee chairman Ken Mehlman; Center for American Progress president John Podesta; Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. FACE THE NATION (CBS): > Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson; Sens. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Rep. Roy Blunt, R-Mo. THIS WEEK (ABC): Pre-empted for coverage of the British Open golf tournament.LATE EDITION (CNN) : Lt. Gen....

But, first, joining us now is Matt Cooper of Time magazine. Welcome. MR. MATT COOPER: Morning, Tim. Story continues below ↓ advertisement Click Here! MR. RUSSERT: This is the cover of your magazine: "Rove on the Spot," subtitled "What I Told the Grand Jury," by Matthew Cooper. And here is an excerpt from your article, which will be available tomorrow in Time magazine. "So did [Karl] Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert? No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that [Joe] Wilson's wife worked at the...

EXCLUSIVE Matthew Cooper reveals exactly what Karl Rove told him--and what the special counsel zeroed in on By MATTHEW COOPER Posted Monday, Jul. 25, 2005 It was my first interview with the President, and I expected a simple "Hello" when I walked into the Oval Office last December. Instead, George W. Bush joked, "Cooper! I thought you'd be in jail by now." The leader of the free world, it seems, had been following my fight against a federal subpoena seeking my testimony in the case of the leaking of the name of a CIA officer. I thought it was funny...

A reporter at the center of the Valerie Plame investigation said Sunday that the media hullabaloo over her identification as a CIA employee may turn out to be much ado about nothing. Asked what he thought the ultimate impact of the scandal would be, Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper told NBC's "Meet the Press," At times I think this is a very big case. At times I think this is politics as usual at not going to be that big a case at all." Coalition Cooper said that the grand jury probing the case, which heard his testimony on Thursday,...

If you did not see Matthew Coopers performance this morning on Meet the Press, you should have, because it gave away the plot for the attack on Karl Rove. Cooper flat-out lied when he told Tim Russert that he first heard the identity of Joe Wilson’s wife from Rove. Rove never mentioned the woman’s name, only that Wilson’s wife worked for the CIA. He never said who that woman was. Cooper, clearly under orders to keep the fake-scandal alive, told that whopper to Tim Russert, because without it, the story would die a quick death. Remember what is going on...

Harry Reid’s latest yarn is spun better than Harry Potter’s! Am I the only one in America laughing at this circus styled so-called grand jury investigation into the Wilson vs. Rove matter, which is clearly much to do about personal politics? Seriously, this is the stuff great novels are made of… Do you really need me to point out the vivid lunacy in this left-wing Bush-bashing effort to demolish Karl Rove? The man lefties consider the most dangerous to their socialist agenda. Rove has guided over-enthusiastic democrats to their own slaughter so many times, that it has lost its entertainment...

Democrat leaders and editorialists accusing Karl Rove of treason for referring to CIA agent Valerie Plame in an off-the-record interview are ignorant of the law, according to the Washington attorney who spearheaded the legislation at the center of the controversy. Vanity Fair photo - (do they look angry about her "outing?") Plame's circumstances don't meet several of the criteria spelled out in a 1982 statute designed not only to protect the identity of intelligence agents but to maintain the media's ability to hold government accountable, Victoria Toensing told WorldNetDaily. Toensing – who drafted the legislation in her role as chief...

In 2004, CNN interviewed White House Deputy Chief of Staff and past advisor to President Bush, Karl Rove about the Valerie Plame issue where members of the media had written stories based on ‘insider’ information that had supposedly ‘outed’ her as a CIA undercover operative. Rove told CNN, “I didn’t know her name. I didn’t leak her name.” Before getting into the nuances of the case, one fact needs to be addressed. It still has yet to be verified if Mrs. Plame was actually ‘outed’ as a covert undercover operative. It has been reported several times that at the time...

Once again, the liberal media are trying to ramp up hysteria over the “outing” of Ambassador Joe Wilson’s wife, CIA employee Valerie Plame. The problem with their frenzy is that there’s no substance to the charge, once all the angry flailing and faux outrage are done with. Liberals are sacrificing what little credibility they have left with the American people in their desperate attempt to destroy the Bush administration at all cost. To that end, they have continually accused President Bush’s advisor Karl Rove of giving Plame’s name to the media in order to punish Wilson, after Wilson investigated reports...

I'm wondering who everyone thinks the actual leaker is. Remember that Novak stated that it's not who we think it is and that it's a highly placed government official who is "no partisan gunslinger". My gut tells me this is what happened: Cooper calls Rove about welfare reform. At the end of the conversation, he asks Rove about Wilson. Rove tries to warn him off the story, mentioning that Wilson's wife, who apparently works at CIA, arranged for Wilson to go to Niger. Miller catches wind of this conversation, perhaps through a conversation with Cooper or perhaps she asked Rove...

Per Fox News...

Judith Miller of the New York Times is in jail, for running afoul of the law of unintended consequences. What began two years ago as an effort to smear President Bush has backfired, big time. Miller is in jail because she won't tell Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald who told her that Valerie Plame, wife of former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, worked for the CIA. Wilson gained his 15 minutes of fame in 2003 when he claimed in an op-ed in the New York Times that President Bush had lied in his State of the Union address that year when...

WASHINGTON - The jailing of New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to reveal a source in the drama of the CIA agent "outed" by a leak to columnist Robert Novak has split the journalism community wide open. Ms. Miller's incarceration is defended by some in the news business who say nobody, even a star or celebrity journalist, has a right to defy a direct order by a court. Her jailing is excoriated by others who say a reporter has an ethical obligation to protect a confidential source at all costs. This is one of those rare cases in...

Yesterday, New York Times reporter Judith Miller stood before a federal judge and defied his order to testify before a grand jury. According to the Reuters version of events, a grand jury investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, a Justice Department prosecutor, seeks to determine who "in the Bush administration" leaked the name of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame in 2003 to the media and whether any laws were violated. Right off the bat, one finds a compelling reason for ordering Judith Miller to reveal her sources. Why? Because we don't know if it was someone in the Bush administration...

WASHINGTON - (KRT) - It may be one of the most important First Amendment cases in a generation. And it is one the media is on the verge of losing. Two reporters, one each from The New York Times and Time magazine, are to appear in federal court Wednesday for a hearing on whether they should go to jail for refusing to talk to prosecutors investigating the potentially illegal disclosure of the identify of a CIA operative. Federal District Judge Thomas F. Hogan in Washington has said he would sentence the reporters, Judith Miller of the Times and Matthew Cooper...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A federal prosecutor on Tuesday demanded that Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA officer's identity, even though Time Inc. has surrendered e-mails and other documents in the probe. Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald also opposed the request of Cooper and New York Times reporter Judith Miller to be granted home detention _ instead of jail _ for refusing to reveal their sources....

<p>Time magazine said today that it would provide documents concerning the confidential sources of one of its reporters to a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. agent, Valerie Plame.</p> <p>The United States Supreme Court turned down appeals in the case on Monday, concluding the gravest legal confrontation between the press and the government in a generation. Two reporters, Judith Miller of The New York Times and Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, face jail for refusing to testify before the grand jury.</p>

...The truth... is that this is a debacle that some in the press corps have brought down upon themselves.... Liberal editorial pages were among the loudest in demanding that a special counsel be appointed to find the leaker. And only many months later, when Ms. Miller was in the dock, did New York Times editorials finally get around to admitting that the leak might not even be a crime. Their partisan loathing for Mr. Bush caused these editors to overlook the risks even to their own reporting self-interest. They have also left the press more vulnerable than it was before....

NEW YORK - Time Inc. said Thursday it would comply with a court order to deliver the notes of a reporter threatened with jail in the investigation of the leak of an undercover CIA officer's name. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan is threatening to jail Matthew Cooper of Time and Judith Miller of The New York Times for contempt for refusing to disclose their sources. The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the reporters' appeal and the grand jury investigating the leak expires in October. The reporters, if in jail, would be freed at that time. In a statement,...

Washington LEGEND has it when Henry David Thoreau went to jail to protest an unjust law, his friend, the philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson, visited him and asked, "Henry, what are you doing in here?" The great nature writer replied, "What are you doing out there?" The Supreme Court has just flinched from its responsibility to stop the unjust jailing of two journalists - not charged with any wrongdoing - by a runaway prosecutor who will go to any lengths to use the government's contempt power to force them to betray their confidential sources. The case was about the "outing" of...