Posted on 08/09/2004 12:37:45 PM PDT by cyncooper
Time Magazine's Cooper Threatened with Jail for Not Revealing Source
A reporter is being held in contempt of court and faces possible jail time, and another was earlier threatened by a federal judge with the same fate, after they refused to answer questions from a special prosecutor investigating whether administration officials illegally disclosed the name of a covert CIA officer last year.
Newly-released court orders show U.S. District Court Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan two weeks ago ordered Matt Cooper of Time magazine and Tim Russert of NBC to appear before a grand jury and tell whether they knew that White House sources provided the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Here's my take .. it's Randi Beers with the help of Joe Wilson
Who's Randi Beers?
Wolfie Blitz just reported that Russert agreed to testify as long as the questions were limited to a phone call between him and Scooter Libbey (Cheney's COS?). And his testimony was requested by Libbey.
Sounds to me like someone knew that Libbey had talked to Russert and suspected that was the source of the leak. In order to eliminate that claim, Libbey asked Russert to reveal the reason or content of the call.
Beers joined up with Kerry at the same time Wilson did:
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Former Aide Takes Aim at War on Terror
By Laura Blumenfeld
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, June 16, 2003; Page A01
Five days before the war began in Iraq, as President Bush prepared to raise the terrorism threat level to orange, a top White House counterterrorism adviser unlocked the steel door to his office, an intelligence vault secured by an electronic keypad, a combination lock and an alarm. He sat down and turned to his inbox.
"Things were dicey," said Rand Beers, recalling the stack of classified reports about plots to shoot, bomb, burn and poison Americans. He stared at the color-coded threats for five minutes. Then he called his wife: I'm quitting.
Beers's resignation surprised Washington, but what he did next was even more astounding. Eight weeks after leaving the Bush White House, he volunteered as national security adviser for Sen. John F. Kerry (Mass.), a Democratic candidate for president, in a campaign to oust his former boss. All of which points to a question: What does this intelligence insider know?...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A62941-2003Jun15?language=printer
Ain't that special ...
BTW .. don't forget how Berger was an advisor for Kerry like Beers and Wislon
funny...John Siegenthaler (anchor on NBC Saturday evening news) made it sound like
Russert had done his legal duty and was finished with this affair.....
bttt
Good.
It was Joe Wilson himself who named Scooter Libby.
I actually used to play a little drinking game watching Hardball at the height of the frenzy over this story and every time Chris spat out "Scooter" I'd take a sip of wine.
YaYa, see post #103 here.
Later reports posted on this thread say Russert may well have testified after the judge issued his order in July. The judge's papers were just unsealed so the info kind of dribbed out. So, Seigenthaler reporter Saturday night that Russert had gone before the grand jury?
I thought someone did a family-tree to show the incestuous relationships in the media-whores/political pimps web that Sally Quinn calls, "Washington's permanent establishment."
The retired congresspeople who stay in DC as lobbyists and lawyers for the people who really run the country, and the press-jerks who socialize with them and protect them.
Clinton's gang were in each others pajamas...Jamie Rubin/Christina Amanpour, Andrea Mitchell/ Alan Greenspan, and small potatoes Al Hunt/Judy Woodruff.
A really thorough list would be a great service.
Freepers posted the names of pressvermin who met with Kerry at Al Franken's apartment. Kerry's little band of newsbenders.
The opinion of Judge Hogan. Cooper doesn't have a chance in hell on appeal.
http://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/04ms296.pdf
Looks like Russert testified, Cooper is the holdout.
But the timeline doesn't seem right for Beers to be the leaker; it sounds like he left the administration two or three months before Novak wrote his column.
And to add...poor argument by Cooper/Time. May be face saving, that's all.
Mission to Niger
Robert Novak
July 14, 2003
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/printrn20030714.shtml
The CIA leak
Robert Novak
October 1, 2003
http://www.townhall.com/columnists/robertnovak/rn20031001.shtml
Novak Recuses Self from CIA Leak Probe
Posted by Scott Ott
December 31, 2003
http://www.scrappleface.com/MT/archives/001463.html
Judge Upholds Media Subpoenas in CIA Leak Case (PLAME/WILSON)
Reuters ^ | August 9, 2004 | James Vicini
Posted on 08/09/2004 12:30:56 PM PDT by cyncooper
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1188136/posts
BTW - I like Siegenthaler. I don't see him a lot, but he seems relatively non-partisan, and I like his voice. He seems a throwback to an earlier era. I think he also narrates one of those true crime shows, or historical shows.
Maybe because no one told Russert, but that it was he or another reporter who told Scooter Libby and others? Following is from the AP article posted here.
"NBC said in its statement that Russert told Fitzgerald in the interview that he did not know Plame's name or her identity as a CIA officer, and that he did not provide that information to Libby. The statement said that Libby had told the FBI about his conversation with Russert and requested that it be disclosed.
And to think that evidently one piece of evidence against Fox in that documentary against them (not being "fair and balanced" you know) is that Carl Cameron's wife once said she supported Bush.
This is how the left is. They are ridiculous.
I think Fox should hire Siegenthaler away from MSNBC and give him his own 1/2 hour show, taking a half-hour bite from Greta's air time. There isn't enough crime news to fill her hour-long show, which is why we get Ted Williams and Bernie Grimm on there every night talking ad nauseum about Laci Peterson and Kobie Bryant.
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