I'm wondering why Joe Wilson has tried to blame Rove for this for a couple years now.
Only recently has Cooper's notes been made public. My guess is that Wilson knew about Cooper's call to Rove, maybe even before it happened!
After all, since Cooper is the one that brought up to Rove, I think it's likely that he was part of a group that was trolling Rove for information on the Niger story, when BAM, Rove blurts out about Wilson's wife.
Sensing they had a nugget, they went to work at trying to get Rove in trouble.
I don't think they had this in mind when they made the call, but they recognized it as soon as it fell in their lap.
Of course, Wilson knew that his wife was never in any real danger, so he agreed to the more public outing.
I think there's something bigger being hid, possibly this might open up an investigation into overal liberal media reporting, but I'm just guessing at this time. The NY Times is neck deep in this mess.
If all of what you theorize is true, then why didn't they reveal what they have before the 2004 election, so they could use it against Rove and Bush...?
Ummm...yes they did. That is why Cooper called Rove under the guise of researching for a welfare reform story. It has been determined that the Cheney/Wilson connection question was in the last two minutes of that conversation. It was done on purpose to try to set up Rove. Now, check this out...a Freeper reported on here:
Brit Hume said tonight the word from the Rove camp is that Rove learned where Joe Wilson's wife worked because a reporter told him.This fits in perfectly with the premise of this article:
Something doesn't add up about why Judith Miller went to jail. The New York Times reporter didn't write a story about the Valerie Plame case and had a waiver from her source in order to talk about it to the grand jury. But she insisted on going to jail anyway. Speculation is mounting that Miller is protecting herself, that Miller was herself a source of information about Plame that made it to several Bush administration officials and was then recycled to columnist Robert Novak. He, then, disclosed Plame's employment by the CIA and her role in arranging for her husband Joe Wilson's mission to Africa to investigate the Iraq-uranium link.This would help explain why Miller didn't write a story about the case. It would be difficult for Miller to write a story when she was so deeply involved in how it developed. Disclosure of her role then or now would be extremely embarrassing.
The more likely explanation is that Miller is protecting private discussions with administration officials, and that during those discussions she provided or confirmed information about Plame's identity. This would make sense. Both Miller and Plame covered the subject of weapons of mass destruction and it was likely that they knew one another, or at least were aware of each other's work in this field.
Isn't Cooper's wife Mandy Grunwald who works for Hillary...