Matthew Cooper appears to have been singled out by the prosecutor because of the belief that he, too, witnessed an Intelligence Identities Protection Act felony. Cooper shares a byline on this Time piece, which reports that "some government officials" gave Plame's identity to the magazine. From the no-good-deed-goes-unpunished department comes this ironic tidbit. The piece Cooper co-wrote—"A War on Wilson?"—was largely supportive of the theory that the Bush administration was smearing Wilson by outing Plame. As for Walter Pincus, today's Post reports that Pincus "has written that a Post reporter received information about [Plame] from a Bush administration official." Presumably, Pincus is the firsthand, witnessing reporter, hence the prosecutor's subpoena.
Novak's claim that the White House had not tried to plant this story with other reporters now seems to be contradicted by statements from Matt Cooper and Walter Pincus, who both revealed in July 2005 that they had been told of Valerie Wilson's CIA status by White House sources prior to the release of Novak's column.
Is this whats coming from the Times tomorrow and what Drudge is reporting tonight?