Reporters Ask Judge for Home Detention

Washington Post ^ | July 2, 2005 | Carol D. Leonnig

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Lawyers for Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper yesterday urged a federal judge not to jail him for refusing to discuss his confidential sources with a prosecutor, arguing in a court filing that there is no need for his testimony now that his employer has turned over his notes, which identify the sources.

Attorneys for New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who, like Cooper, faces four months in jail for defying Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas F. Hogan's order to cooperate with a special prosecutor's investigation, also urged Hogan yesterday not to jail her. In papers filed yesterday, her lawyers said that because she intends to go to jail rather than disclose the name of her source, incarceration would be "merely punitive" and would not cause her to obey the court

Both reporters said in the documents that if Hogan insists on incarceration, they will propose being detained under restrictive conditions at home. They said the cost of electronic bracelets and other monitoring equipment would be borne by private entities, not taxpayers, and that they would give up much of their contact with the outside world

If jailed, however, Cooper suggested he should be sent to a federal prison camp in Cumberland, in close proximity to Washington, where he lives with his wife, Mandy Grunwald, and their 6-year-old son. Miller proposed a federal women's prison camp in Danbury, Conn., which her lawyers described as "safe" and "near to Ms. Miller's 76-year-old husband," retired book publisher Jason Epstein, in New York City.

Most people found in contempt by a federal court in the District serve their time in the D.C. jail.

[clee1]

Throw 'em in jail... if for no other reason than to convince them that they have to obey the law like the rest of us: and that their position of "4th Branch of Government" is self-delusion.

[GSlob]

A salutary lesson needs to be taught there - toss them to the lions.

[xzins]

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;

No law = no law. If these people need to keep their sources confidential in order to get insider information, then that makes perfect sense. Therefore, in order to get the news that makes up the free press, they need to be able to maintain agreements with sources.

The same as with religion....No law = no law.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

This isn't Congress "shall make no law," the Supreme Court is making these rulings - including those about religion.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

They should be put in prison and raped, like everyone else.

[xzins]

I'm assuming that when the judges rule that they're basing their rulings on some law that they see being violated. If not, then they just pulling the ruling out of the ___.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

There are dissenters on the Supreme Court.

I guess they don't see those "laws."

[kcvl]

Cooper suggested he should be sent to a federal prison camp in Cumberland, in close proximity to Washington, where he lives with his wife, Mandy Grunwald

Time magazine's Matthew Cooper married longtime Clinton adviser Mandy Grunwald in November 1997. Hillary Clinton even threw Grunwald a baby shower at the White House in July 1998. At the time Cooper was covering presidential politics for Newsweek.

media adviser Mandy Grunwald, who helped elect Bill Clinton president in 1992 and Mrs. Clinton to the Senate in 2000

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Why is Maura Moynihan (Pat Moynihan's daughter)giving the false impression Klein never spoke to his mother?

(Ed) Klein believes that her motive may be her friendship with Sen. Clinton and her close ties to Hillary's long-time aide Mandy Grunwald. Maura and Mandy were roommates at Harvard.

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snip

Embarrassing Plugs for the Clinton Marriage
by L. Brent Bozell III
March 10, 1998

Newsweek's Karen Breslau and Matt Cooper (cooperative husband of Clinton spin controller Mandy Grunwald) embarrassed themselves with paragraphs of absurdity. After repeating Hillary's mantra that "The only people who count in any marriage are the two that are in it," they proclaim: "There is a simple alchemy to their relationship: she's goofy, flat-out in love with him and he with her. 'They don't kiss. They devour each other,' says one aide. He needs her - for intellectual solace, political guidance and spiritual sustenance." Oh please!

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Friend Mandy Grunwald, a media consultant who worked on President Clinton's campaigns and now is advising Mrs. Clinton.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Great post!

[mewzilla]

That is a great post. Bumping for anyone who missed it.

[Patriot from Philly]

Last night there was a quote up on Drudge from Larry O'Donnell on McLaughlin Group quoted as saying that Cooper's documents will show that Rove was the leaker.

I found that comment very unsettling, since this would be a major blow to the Republicans.

Any news of this? Should we worry or just consider the source.

[Woliff]

I think this is what they are referring to:

Media Info

MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in Plame Case

By E&P Staff

Published: July 01, 2005 11:30 PM ET

NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name--and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove.

Here is the transcript of O'Donnell's remarks:

"What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's e-mails, within Time Magazine, are handed over to the grand jury, the ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is.

"And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do with the grand jury."

Other panelists then joined in discussing whether, if true, this would suggest a perjury rap for Rove, if he told the grand jury he did not leak to Cooper.

[Patriot from Philly]

Hope this is just wishful thinking of the leftists' part. Didn't they want Rove from the beginning on this. Also heard Bolton's name mentioned.

The funny thing is that the MSM acted so collectively outraged over this for 18 months that they can't do what they really want to do.

Which would be to reveal our covert agent identities to the Italians...you know, just to be helpful.

Hope it's not Rowe. This would ruin him and we need him.

[freepatriot32]

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[Woliff]

At the moment this is just someone´s speculation.

As for the covert agents in the Italian case. They seem to have done a poor job of being covert, with all the phone calls and leaving a huge paper trail.

[Mad Mammoth]

I say throw their asses into jail, and you with them.

[relictele]

Possibly the ugliest woman in the world, inside and out.

[speedy]

Being married to Mandy Grunwald, I would think time in jail would seem like a vacation for Cooper.

[metesky]

If jail is good enough for you and me, it's good enough for the beautiful people too.

And don't get me started on these presstitutes thinking they can dictate the terms of their sentences. Un-freepin'-believable!