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.
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I just posted a separate thread on the judge saying the two reporters, Cooper and Russert, must testify. Just reported that Cooper has been held in contempt.
I thought this development certainly deserved it's own thread in "breaking news".
Check this out!
Ping to the continuing Plame Name Blame Game saga!
We got us a reporter threatened with JAIL.
Since it's that Mandy Gruenwald's husband I can't say I'm shedding too many tears, though he's got a fine last name.
LOL
Cooper is Mandy Grumwald's hubby,eh...
wouldn't it be funny if WILSON ends up being the one indicted?
I can't believe any of these reporters would cover for the White House. Something smells. What about Novak?
Pore timmy.
That has been my prediction for months!
I don't know if I like this, it smells as though they are propping up a big free speech defense which in the end he'll spill his leakee because "the issue of national security is so important to our country at this time."
"I must confess that I leaked this information to Dick Cheney"..
Then Cheney spends two weeks trying to deny the negative...
The media had taunted Bush to investigate this outrage against their Liberal friend.
Bush is giving them an investigation!! LOL
The tables have turned.
Damn those Nazi Republicans, putting reporters in jail. Wait a minute the prosecutors want to frog march the evil svengali Karl Rove.
Er, help me here. What's my anti-Bush angle?
Signed,
CBS/ABC/NBC/NYTIMES
She's got black teeth. ICK!
Yep, he stinks too.
"Russert persecuted by covering for the White House. Film at eleven..." Poor Timmy. Stuck between a rock and hard place. To tell, or not to tell. Either way, he's hosed. Hahahahahahahahahahaha
(Then, it turns out the leaker is Joe Wilson - that would be REALLY funny)
I don't believe the journalists would commit perjury in order to get Cheney. Oh, tempted, maybe, but nope, I wouldn't worry about it if I were you.
Some of these things are in fact provable, like where people are on a certain day and so forth.
No, under oath they'll stick with saying nothing or telling the truth.
You know, he could just be making up sources and doesn't want to expose this journalistic practice. Nothing he reported from anonymous sources was much of anything new.
Yeah, how come Novak isn't being forced to testify? He definitely knows who told him.
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