I did not see Cooper on MTP, but I would like to know, did he say he learned of Plame's NAME from Rove, or her IDENTITY? Perhaps Cooper was not exactly lying, if he said he learned of her "identity" from Rove, if Rove was indeed the first person who told him that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. But clearly he is intending to confuse the public in order to take the heat off his own false and libelous story he ran after speaking to Rove, when he wrote about a nefarious coordinated effort by the White House to get revenge on Joe Wilson by outing his wife.
Not exactly lying? I work for Delta Airlines. Did I just give you my identity? Cooper flat-out lied.
That's similar to what was going on with Wilson's editorial comments: Administration said that Iraq was seeking Yellowcake...Wilson said they were lying because his trip showed that Niger wasn't selling them any - not that Wilson's comments didn't fall apart anyways, but fundementally these two statements aren't in opposition.