Matt Cooper testified that he spoke to both Libby and Rove. Cooper testified that Rove said, "Oh, you heard that too?" Cooper took that as a second source corroborating his lead. However, it appears that perhaps Cooper mentioned it to Libby, Libby mentioned it to Rove, and Rove confirmed that he heard about it to Cooper. Cooper never had a second source if Rove was only repeating Cooper's original words to Libby back to him.
Cooper would have needed an independent source, and Rove/Libby are hardly independent of each other.
-PJ
Geez. This is beginning to remind me of that case in Ohion (?) Where the tax boys were after the lady who owed them a dollar!
"Matt Cooper testified that he spoke to both Libby and Rove. Cooper testified that Rove said, 'Oh, you heard that too?'"
That's not quite right. Cooper testified that when Rove told him about Wilson's wife, it was the first time he'd ever heard about her: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=949040
Cooper said on National TV that he had another source other than Cheney or Libby. He gulped when he said it and lowered his head almost like: "I wish I hadn't said that." I took it as a serious error and conflicting item.