Posted on 07/02/2005 7:59:14 AM PDT by summer
NEW YORK -- Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her. Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show, Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know that name--and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind Karl Rove.
Here is the transcript of O'Donnell's remarks:
"What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's e-mails, within Time Magazine, are handed over to the grand jury, the ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is.
"And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do with the grand jury."
Other panelists then joined in discussing whether, if true, this would suggest a perjury rap for Rove, if he told the grand jury he did not leak to Cooper. ...
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Rove talked to Novak, not Time, and yes, I think KR and Novak talk frequently.
if true, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
Exactly, that's what Fred Barnes said, with no disagreement from the others on the panel.
Actually, I think that hybrid might be far more heterosexual.
If he did it, that's wrong. What Sandy Berger did was ten times worse and he got a handslap, but we can't condone revealing the identities of CIA agents, even if they're not really in a spy capacity.
If this is only speculation, then I don't believe it. Cooper has no reason to 'protect' Karl Rove - I'm sure he would do just the opposite.
My bad, you're correct about Larry O'Brien. But I seem to recall a Larry O'Donnell in there somewhere.
My opinion:
O'Donnell knows who it is, and its a demorat, but he doesn't want that to get out, so he's blowing smoke to Rove to have the liberial news media and everyone else believe its Rove....when in fact, I bet, it's a demorat!
It's going to be interesting to watch how they try to spin this....I hope there are enough good reporters out there that don't work for the demorats that the truth will come out.....
Why should anybody believe Cooper????
It got started because the press demanded an investigation and Bush complied with 'their' wishes. The WSJ stated this situation in the Thursday or Friday editorial. The press were the ones to invite the prosecution in!
Perhaps, but according to Novak, Rove is not his source. A search on Google produced this: "'Nobody in the Bush administration called me to leak this,' Novak said on 'Crossfire.' 'There is no great crime here.'"
Why would anyone believe O'Donnell about anything? (other than an apparent expertise about what happens when you fail to take your meds.)
.....This whole thing makes no sense....
Cooper knows the source and has had several months to develop documents outing whom ever he chooses. Rove is the politically correct choice.
Keep in mind Cooper works for Time Warner a corporate entity with extreme leftists politics and absolutely no scruples.
That's just the point. Valerie Plame never was an agent, she never was a spy, and her employment by the CIA was never classified.
The closest she ever got to agent activity was when she travelled under an assumed name on agency business. Even her husband talked about that in a televised press conference.
Unnamed sources say a 9 year old boy is identifying O'Donnell as the source of his HIV infection
After all, it's not whether they might be true, it's the gravity of the charges.
Ya beat me to it!
Suffice to say at this time that Rove didn't have a thing to do with this "leak", nor did anyone in the WH.
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