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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Cooper should be required to out his own wife first off....instead of hiding behind the cover of "journalist".
Here, here. Couldn't have said it better.
LOL, reminds me of The Christmas Story. "I double dog dare ya."
Reporters are not your friend. Repeat that every hour on the hour.
Hope your new house is still there when you get to MS.
Now try it with subtitles.
Discussing this piece on Washington Journal now.
Newt brought himself down. His actions with regard to women did not live up to his rhetoric. He shot himself in the ... foot.
Or just create the next phony "scandal" to prevent Bush from getting his agenda through. It's a very clever form of obstructionism.
Evesdropping here- I've heard that the Battlefield at nearbyRaymond has also been restored.
Vicksburg has the best Park Battle Guides (IMHO) outside of Gettysburg. Mine was a true Southern Lady who entertained me for two hours with stories & lore. Hope you take a break and hire one of the guides...you'll learn the origins of the 101st....where we got the term "spread eagle"....a story of a girl who passed as a soldier....
Plame was not a covert operative at the time Wilson went on travel which has already been established as fact.
Or Animal House.Double-secret probation
Plame was not an "undercover CIA agent".
Once again, Plame was not an undercover or secret agent.
Reading it literally sounds like Rove knew the reporter ALREADY had her name and everything else for his article...I'm betting the reporter asked Rove to comment on her actions or something.
Easy on with that kind of talk.
Only the delusional ignoramuses of the left can take the above and spin it as someone "outing" an undercover agent. Rove is saying that a trip was not authorized by a Director, but rather, by Wilson's wife. Now how in hell does that translate to "Valerie Plame is an undercover operative for the CIA?" And since when to "undercover operatives" have the authority to expend department resources for the purpose of assigning a SPOUSE to an "investigation?"
I beg, I plead, I stamp my feet, and urge the MSM reporters to pleeeaaasssse start asking basic investigative questions before they rush to publish this type of crap.
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