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NEWSWEEK: Matt Cooper's Source
Newsweek ^ | July 18 issue | Michael Isikoff

Posted on 07/10/2005 12:12:27 AM PDT by West Coast Conservative

It was 11:07 on a Friday morning, July 11, 2003, and Time magazine correspondent Matt Cooper was tapping out an e-mail to his bureau chief, Michael Duffy. "Subject: Rove/P&C," (for personal and confidential), Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper proceeded to spell out some guidance on a story that was beginning to roil Washington. He finished, "please don't source this to rove or even WH [White House]" and suggested another reporter check with the CIA.

Last week, after Time turned over that e-mail, among other notes and e-mails, Cooper agreed to testify before a grand jury in the Valerie Plame case. Explaining that he had obtained last-minute "personal consent" from his source, Cooper was able to avoid a jail sentence for contempt of court. Another reporter, Judith Miller of The New York Times, refused to identify her source and chose to go to jail instead.

For two years, a federal prosecutor, Patrick Fitzgerald, has been investigating the leak of Plame's identity as an undercover CIA agent. The leak was first reported by columnist Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. Novak apparently made some arrangement with the prosecutor, but Fitzgerald continued to press other reporters for their sources, possibly to show a pattern (to prove intent) or to make a perjury case. (It is illegal to knowingly identify an undercover CIA officer.) Rove's words on the Plame case have always been carefully chosen. "I didn't know her name. I didn't leak her name," Rove told CNN last year when asked if he had anything to do with the Plame leak. Rove has never publicly acknowledged talking to any reporter about former ambassador Joseph Wilson and his wife.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; cialeak; cooper; iraq; isikoff; michaelisikoff; miller; plame; plamegate; rove; wilson
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To: cameroncrazy1984

Just signed up today for that, huh?

Man, Larry O'Donnell has you fools worked into a frenzy. It's going to be amusing watching you crash and burn (yet again).


201 posted on 07/11/2005 3:32:33 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: cameroncrazy1984
The other thing is I wonder why Scott McClellan, who commented several times on this investigation before, including in the weeks leading up to this revelation, now refuses to answer any questions from anyone regarding this case. What happened between "we will fire whoever is the leak" and "i won't comment on an ongoing investigation"?

I wondered that too. McClellan should have been consistent... He made it sound like there is something there..exactly the message he should not send if he wants to help deflect this issue.

203 posted on 07/11/2005 4:22:55 PM PDT by grondram (The problem with the middle of the road is that you're passed on all sides and likely to be runover.)
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To: Uhhuh35
Remember when the press called Bubba the "Teflon Prez"? Well I think we have another one now.

Wasn't Reagan the Teflon President? BJ Clinton was the K-Y President.

204 posted on 07/11/2005 4:24:18 PM PDT by Erasmus ("The best-laid men gang oft a-gley." --Robt. Burns)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Cooper began. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..."

People who use phrases such as "double super secret" should not be taken seriously unless they are in a movie with John Belushi.

206 posted on 07/11/2005 4:26:31 PM PDT by Tribune7
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To: cameroncrazy1984
I'm sorry you misunderstood my response. Refuting your talking points was never my intention. They're not worthy of any such refutation.

I just wanted to make fun of yet another giddy, moronic, leftist, moonbat troll. So I did.

Hope that cleared things up.

207 posted on 07/11/2005 4:52:12 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: grondram

Member since 7/5/05.

Busy little beavers, aren't you...


208 posted on 07/11/2005 4:53:38 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Yep, three days and nights sitting up watching a hurricane roll in...

BTW, I really appreaciate the Scientology links in your profile. I've always felt a real discomfort with them but your links put some meat on it. That Hubbard quote is chilling.


209 posted on 07/11/2005 5:27:02 PM PDT by grondram (The problem with the middle of the road is that you're passed on all sides and likely to be runover.)
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To: CWOJackson

"...cone of silence."

Great "Get Smart" reference. There were so many great gags in that show but that was always one of my favorites. Maxwell Smart always badgering the Chief to use the "Cone of Silence", having the device lower, covering both their craniums then inevitably the Chief reasks the question that he felt required the extra security. Smart would always respond: "What?" The Chief would try again and Smart would never hear clearly which would always prompt the Chief to remove the "Cone of Silence" and ask the question in the initial "unsecure manner".

It was one of those gags that you know the whole sequence just as it started but like the Church Lady (Isn't that special?) every fan still loved it every time.


210 posted on 07/11/2005 5:41:20 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Ron Bonjean: "Deepthroat...Deanthroat...Dean likes the taste of his own foot.")
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To: carl in alaska

"Take a hike Troll. I believe Rove's earlier statements and I don't believe some troll who signed up for FR just this morning. Buzz off, you liberal fool."

If this were an official in a democratic cabinet, you'd be singing a different tune. As an independent, I reserve judgement and if Rove did this, he needs to do some time. Just because a person takes a middle ground stance doesn't make him a liberal or a fool. It makes him fair-minded and unwilling to cover up corruption and illegality regardless of who perpetrated it.
We had a similar dirty tactic republican on Arnold's campaign team. A woman who accused him of being a pervert was knowingly smeared as a criminal. He dug up an arrest record on a women who had the same name and leaked it to the papers. He later snickered about it.

Now we have a pervert in the Governor's office and a California republican party who did their best to smear the only conservative in the race, McClintock. I will NEVER vote republican in this state again. They do not deserve reinforcement for their behavior.


212 posted on 07/11/2005 6:12:57 PM PDT by followerofchrist
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To: defenderSD

"I smell a troll at post #9. Just signed up this morning."

Do you agree what what he said? He said "our people must obey the law too." If it is proven that Rove did this, will you take seriously the fact that a woman's life was placed in danger, or is it ok for republicans to do this?
What would you be saying if a democrat was accused of this?


213 posted on 07/11/2005 6:15:24 PM PDT by followerofchrist
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To: followerofchrist

Wait a minute...

Is there ANY evidence that Rove revealed her identity? Nope.

If he did discuss her, given that her identity seems to have been already known to the press did it cause harm? Nope

Would this be an issue if attacking Rove wasn't a way to attack the White house? Nope.

The rest is just a hypothetical with no public basis so I see no more need to speculate on what happens if something happened for which there is no evidence.


214 posted on 07/11/2005 6:34:28 PM PDT by grondram (The problem with the middle of the road is that you're passed on all sides and likely to be runover.)
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To: WhistlingPastTheGraveyard

Member since 7/5/05.

Busy little beavers, aren't you..."

Those who are new (we all were new once), and disagree with you, or question the prevailing opinion are always called "trolls" around here when they bring up a legitimate point, as if their points don't matter because they are new here.

Rove has been known for dirty tricks against political opponents ever since being mentored by a rather dishonest dirty tricks man in the Nixon admin. His pattern over the years is consistent with this act. Where there's smoke, there's fire. After learning Rove's claims that John
McCain "Fathered a black child out of wedlock" (in reference to his adopted Bngladeshi daughter) was beyond despicable.. Freeper support for the hypocritical Newt Gingrich is reprehensible as well. Anyone who cheats on his wife and says "well, she's getting older" and then gives her divorce papers while dying of cancer in the hospital is beyond a pig. But republicans, no longer the moral party, support him and people like Rove because it isn't about making America a better, more moral place anymore, it's about winning, and losing your soul in the process.



215 posted on 07/11/2005 6:43:05 PM PDT by followerofchrist
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To: followerofchrist

Wow what a dirty trick. Rove is the master of "tennis politics" - using the ferocity of the opposition which enables an even more powerful cross-cut that just knicks the line. Are you on the same page in regards to the "dirty trick" Rove pulled in NY by calling "liberals" to the floor followed by Dems exscoriating Rove for his comments while at the same time not realizing they were actually admitting that they - Dems - were libs. Please.

If you want intellectually-dishonest-emotionally-bankrupt political maneuvers then Dems are your cup of tea.


217 posted on 07/11/2005 6:53:50 PM PDT by torchthemummy (Ron Bonjean: "Deepthroat...Deanthroat...Dean likes the taste of his own foot.")
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To: MuchoMacho

Patrick J. Fitzgerald (born 1961) is the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois. On December 31, 2003, he made national headlines by being appointed to continue the investigation into the Valerie Plame CIA leak, a case sometimes referred to by the media as "Leakgate".[1] Fitzgerald was named to this role after Attorney General John Ashcroft recused himself from the case.[2]

Fitzgerald attended Amherst College and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1985. After practicing civil law, he became an Assistant United States Attorney in New York in 1988. He handled drug-trafficking cases and in 1993 helped prosecute John Gambino of the Gambino mafia family. In 1994, he became the prosecutor in the case against Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 other individuals charged in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.[3]

In 1996, Fitzgerald became the National Security Coordinator for the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. There, he served on a team of prosecutors investigating Osama bin Laden.[4] He served as chief counsel in prosecutions related to the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Africa.[5]

Patrick Fitzgerald was nominated for his position as U.S. Attorney on September 19, 2001 on the recommendation of U.S. Senator Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL), and confirmed on October 24, 2001. Peter Fitzgerald and Patrick Fitzgerald are not related.[6]


218 posted on 07/11/2005 6:58:05 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: followerofchrist
Rove's biggest sin, as far as his enemies are concerned, is that he got George W. Bush elected twice. That's it. That's why they're out to get him. Anyone who doesn't see that, as far as I'm concerned, is blind as a bat.

And if you have a shred of evidence suggesting Rove was behind the push polls regarding McCain and his adopted Bangladeshi daughter, I'd love to see it. Otherwise, spare me the Victim McCain for President committee's talking points. They're staler than five year old Wonder bread.
219 posted on 07/11/2005 7:35:14 PM PDT by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard (You're either with us, or you're against us.)
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