and before that.
"Based on the e-mail message, Mr. Rove's disclosures are not criminal, said Bruce S. Sanford, a Washington lawyer who helped write the law and submitted a brief on behalf of several news organizations concerning it to the appeals court hearing the case of Mr. Cooper and Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times. Ms. Miller has gone to jail rather than disclose her source.
"It is clear that Karl Rove's conversation with Matt Cooper does not fall into that category" of criminal conduct, Mr. Sanford said. "That's not 'knowing.' It doesn't even come close."
all this is a feeding frenzy.
But I have to say that McClellan was ridiculously pathetic and should have shot back at the press corps.
" But I have to say that McClellan was ridiculously pathetic and should have shot back at the press corps."
If the WH had a stronger, more confident spokesman many of these media manipulated firestorms would be snuffed out in the beginning.
The out of control press corps has been using McClellan as their punching bag from day one and the WH appears completely helpless to change that dynamic.
Heaven forbid that the NY Times would let the facts get in the way of a good story.......