"Rove was suggesting to Cooper that that folks lower down in the CIA than its own director commandeered the process so that the husband of one of their own could get the gig. And the husband in question then went and misrepresented his findings to various journalists (The Washington Post's Walter Pincus and The New York Times's Nicholas Kristof) and then in his own now-famous Times op-ed. "
You know, if this thing wasn't being presented as the latest retro Bush-bash, folks would notice that the elephant in the room is federal government spouses not only working together, but sending each other on assignments. I thought this sort of incestuous behavior was frowned upon.
Ok, another article that I just read indicated that it was Cooper protecting his own partisanship that led him to refuse to testify about his source and the nature of the conversation. Is it possible that since the Times was leading the call for the appointment of the independent council, that they are protecting their own butt in that they also knew that the Whitehouse was not leaking Plame's identity to get back at Wilson? In other words is Miller in jail as a CYA for the NYT?