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Cooper took the podium in the court and told the judge, "Last night I hugged my son good-bye and told him it might be a long time before I see him again."

"I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions" for not testifying, Cooper said. But he told the judge that not long before his early afternoon appearance, he had received "in somewhat dramatic fashion" a direct personal communication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep the source's identity secret.

He lied directly to the judge. I remembered the first reports were from reporters who had been in the courtroom and they breathlessly stated what he had told the judge.

Then out he came repeating it all at that bank of microphones, biting his lip and practically wiping a tear from his eye.

I will probably miss that Senate hearing next week. For once I'm glad. I don't think I could take it.