Matthew Cooper’s first-hand account more bad news for Rove-haters-(CIA LEAK "quickly crumbling")

Trash News!! That's MSM TRASH NEWS!! Socialist Propaganda News Service = TRASH!

Yo DUmmies, ya'all worked yourselves into an apoplectic frenzy over nuthin!

I'm tired of punditry.

Garbage in......Garbage out.....

Do you think for a minute that if Libby was in anyway connected to any of this msm trumped up write your own story garbage that he would still be working for Chenny?????

I DON"T THINK SO...

To the garbage libs: "Lucy you gots lots of splanin to do!"

Thanks for posting this analysis.

Cooper is a real putz trying to pose himself as a hero to the left and journalism (same thing). He had permission to reveal his conversation with Rove over a year ago but put it off and even gave a really nauseating talk about how he "said goodbye to my little boy this morning because I might not see him again" and then gave the info Rove had long given him permission to give. Now, instead of "defending his source" which is supposedly what makes these people heroes, he keeps trying to frame the situation so it makes Rove look bad, though with the actual facts involved that's almost impossible.

I can't wait for his self-congratualtory book to come out so I can laugh when it hits the remainder bins.

Cooper said that Rove, Libby and several other people were sources for his knowledge of Valerie Plame. Isn't it funny that to the press he was quick to identify Rove and Libby, but not the others? Why do the others get a free pass?

" Rove was not telling Cooper to write a story but rather to be careful so as not to publish an incorrect one"

That is a good point. I figured the don't publish an incorrect story, but I did not take the step to the not telling him to write a story the other way. Maybe obvious, but I never looked at it that way.

I agree that Cooper basically "outed" his sources (well two of them anyway) and is acting like some kind of hero. I may disagree with Judith Wilson's keeping her sources secret, but at least she is standing on principle and I can respect that.

Correct. But the most interesting thing of this whole case is watching the New York Times basically say "Judith Miller should be freed because there was no crime committed and Karl Rove should be indicted for it."

What is obvious is that neither Plame nor Wilson liked the story that Saddam was trying to buy uranium in Africa. And neither was an admirer of the President.

"What is obvious is that neither Plame nor Wilson liked the story that Saddam was trying to buy uranium in Africa. And neither was an admirer of the President."

I've said on other threads, that Patrick Fitzgerald isn't pursuing two or three words from either Libby or Rove. ("I heard that, too".......and "Wilson's wife works at the CIA on WMD issues...").

It is absurd to even "go there."

This story is going to lead to how it was that Plame and her doltish husband, Joey Yellowcake, tried to negate and deny the Niger-Saddam uranium connection, to help out operatives they knew who were involved in smuggling uranium out of Niger and into Iraq. These would have been French and U.N. people known to the Wilson couple.

That was their main effort. A byproduct would have been to have so seriously damaged President Bush's credibility, that the Wilson gambit could have thrown the election to Kerry. Both schemes, IMO, are treasonous........but if not, then certainly illegal, especially for an ex-State Dept. employee and a currently employed CIA employee! They had no business engaging in such a partisan conspiracy of their own design!

I'm not such a hot shot on our federal laws governing such things, but it would seem to me that the plot that the two of them hatched might be actionable as a federal offense. That's where the prosecutor is going. He's not spending time and federal funding in order to parse one sentence from Libby and one from Karl Rove!

Thanks for your comments, popdonnelly!

Char :)

that Patrick Fitzgerald isn't pursuing two or three words from either Libby or Rove.

Hmmmmm, What is Fitgerald pursuing????

Enquiring minds want to know.

I admit to ignoring this whole story. Should I be embarassed?

"I've said on other threads, that Patrick Fitzgerald isn't pursuing two or three words from either Libby or Rove."

I believe Fitzgerald is looking into how the Democrats used the CIA (Plame) to undermine the election, which would explain why the democrats would be so vicious on a "non-story".

Holtz
JeffersonRepublic.com

John, it depends on what you want to be informed about. ;)

I keep thinking this will blow over, Parley. Not knowing that much about it, I could be wrong. It does seem like the Dems are fit to be tied because they want to try to obtain some kind of impeachment out of this administration and they're running out of time!

You hit the nail square on the head.

An amicus brief has been filed in the US Court of appeals for the DC Circuit by the following media organizations:

Media Organizations
ABC	Dow Jones & Co.	The New York Press Club
Advance Publications	Scripps Company	The Newspaper Association of America
Albritton Communications	FOXNews	The Newspaper Guild
The American Society of Magazine Editors	Gannett Co.	Newsweek
AP	Harper's Magazine Foundation	NYP Holdings
Belo Corp.	Hearst Corp.	The Reporter's Committee for Freedom of the Press
Bloomberg	Knight-Ridder Newspapers	Reuters
CNN	LIN Television	The Society of Professional Journalists
CBS	Magazine Publishers of America	Tribune Company
Copley Press	McClatchey Co.	The Washington Post
Cox Newspapers	McGraw-Hill	White House Correspondents
Daily News	NBC

Most of these organizations have called for Karl Rove's head in the public headlines, but when it comes to what they want to say in a court of law (away from the public eye), surprise-surprise, the truth comes out.

Agreed...Cooper is a PUTZ. He admitted on MTP Sunday morning that he also had other sources who had signed releases for him to speak to the GJ beside Rove/Libby, but he didn't include THEM in his Time Mag article of this week. Naturally, Russert didn't inquire who they might be. Cooper should lay it all on the line if he wants to play the shining star in his own story, rather than just feed the lib MSM an elite selection of those in the WH he betrayed.
So who are those other sources, Matt?