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.
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.
First question is why would Rove put himself at risk like this?
Second, if that was the case, do you for a minute think these reporters would go to jail for him?
Third, if that was the case, that information would have been leaked to friends of theirs and it would be on 60 minues within a week.
I don't know who their source is, but I doubt it is a Republican, if so they would have tossed them to the wolfs long ago.