Matt Cooper to sing and reveal source in Treasongate.

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Earlier, Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, in an about-face, told Hogan that he would cooperate with a federal prosecutor's investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. He said he would do so now because his source gave him specific authority to do so.

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As for Miller, unless she decides to talk, she will be held until the grand jury ends its work in October. The judge speculated that Miller's confinement might cause her source to give her a more specific waiver of confidentiality, as did Cooper's.

JUDITH MILLER GOES TO JAIL!

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Wednesday jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating who in the Bush administration leaked an undercover CIA operative's name.

"There is still a realistic possibility that confinement might cause her to testify," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said of the showdown in a case that has seen both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney interviewed by investigators.

Miller stood up, hugged her lawyer and was escorted from the courtroom.

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So did Karl Rove give Matt a call!? but not Judith?
Someone on another post said Karl Rove if anything will get a perjury charge..it may look
as if that is what he is trying to lead it to.imho

More: Conservative Byron York defends Rove

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Earlier Craig Crawford was incensed(this was before the Matt Cooper breaking story)
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Memo to THE SOURCE(s): You are a pathetic coward to let two reporters go to jail -- possibly today -- to protect your outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA undercover agent, just so you could score petty political points against her husband, Bush critic Joe Wilson

[ July 06, 2005, 09:26 PM: Message edited by: LadyEagle ]

 

I understand OldReg when in doubt use the smileys



but this is actually a political board for discussion and debate if you haven't noticed


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Earlier, Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, in an about-face, told Hogan that he would cooperate with a federal prosecutor's investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame. He said he would do so now because his source gave him specific authority to do so.

more:

As for Miller, unless she decides to talk, she will be held until the grand jury ends its work in October. The judge speculated that Miller's confinement might cause her source to give her a more specific waiver of confidentiality, as did Cooper's.

JUDITH MILLER GOES TO JAIL!

WASHINGTON - A federal judge on Wednesday jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating who in the Bush administration leaked an undercover CIA operative's name.

"There is still a realistic possibility that confinement might cause her to testify," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said of the showdown in a case that has seen both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney interviewed by investigators.

Miller stood up, hugged her lawyer and was escorted from the courtroom.

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So did Karl Rove give Matt a call!? but not Judith?
Someone on another post said Karl Rove if anything will get a perjury charge..it may look
as if that is what he is trying to lead it to.imho

More: Conservative Byron York defends Rove

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/byron-york/to-lawrence-odonnell-ho_3730.html#comments

Earlier Craig Crawford was incensed(this was before the Matt Cooper breaking story)
source

Memo to THE SOURCE(s): You are a pathetic coward to let two reporters go to jail -- possibly today -- to protect your outing of Valerie Plame as a CIA undercover agent, just so you could score petty political points against her husband, Bush critic Joe Wilson

[ July 06, 2005, 09:27 PM: Message edited by: LadyEagle ]

 

Rove of course will reap what he sows.If this toad used reporters to hide his bottom feeding
hate for Joe Wilson then he deserves to be put right along side Benedict Arnold as a traitor!

This from Joe Wilson today

By Joe Wilson

The sentencing of Judith Miller to jail for refusing to disclose her sources is the direct result of the culture of unaccountability that infects the Bush White House from top to bottom. President Bush’s refusal to enforce his own call for full cooperation with the Special Counsel has brought us to this point. Clearly, the conspiracy to cover up the web of lies that underpinned the invasion of Iraq is more important to the White House than coming clean on a serious breach of national security. Thus has Ms Miller joined my wife, Valerie, and her twenty years of service to this nation as collateral damage in the smear campaign launched when I had the temerity to challenge the President on his assertion that Iraq had attempted to purchase uranium yellowcake from Africa.


The real victims of this cover-up, which may have turned criminal, are the Congress, the Constitution and, most tragically, the Americans and Iraqis who have paid the ultimate price for Bush’s folly.

This from Bill Israel a collegue of Roves

By Bill Israel, Editor & Publisher. Posted July 6, 2005.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/shoptalk_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000973352


A colleague of Rove argues that the president's adviser is hiding behind the First Amendment and that reporters should not protect him.

In 99.9 percent of cases I know, journalists must not break the bonds of appropriate confidentiality, to protect their ability to report, and to defend the First Amendment. I've testified in court to that end, and would do so again.

But the Valerie Plame-CIA case that threatens jail time for reporters from Time and The New York Times this week is the exception that shatters the rule. In this case, journalists as a community have been played for patsies by the president's chief strategist, Karl Rove, and are enabling him to abuse the First Amendment, by their invoking it.

To understand why this case is exceptional, one must grasp the extent of Rove's political mastery, which became clearer to me by working with him. When we taught "Politics and the Press" together at The University of Texas at Austin seven years ago, Rove showed an amazing disdain for Texas political reporters. At the same time, he actively cultivated national reporters who could help him promote a Bush presidency.

In teaching with him, I learned Rove assumes command over any political enterprise he engages. He insists on absolute discipline from staff: nothing escapes him; no one who works with him moves without his direction. In Texas, though he was called "the prime minister" to Gov. George W. Bush, it might have been "Lord," as in the divine, for when it came to politics and policy, it was Rove who gave, and Rove who took away.

 

KenH are you just going to stir and act like
a crybaby ...guess what bush calls him ..I will
let you Google that one..don't give me your
self righteous crap when you go around trying
to intimidate others. Just because
Kenny poo you don't get your confirmation or
atta boys..please take your crybaby antics some
place else..oh by the way have you found bushs
name for Karl. As for toad I am being very ultra
conservative and not taking liberty ..a traitor
deserves worse a person who uses reporters to
promote his scum politics is a real blossom of a
fellow ..kinda stinks.

Spare me the self righteousness Ken..oh btw have
you found that nickname bush likes to use on
ol Karl.

Protect the toad somewhere else or actually discuss protecting him that would be even better.

Traitor...toad...toad ...traitor ..seems to
roll off the tongue with me KenH..you are free
to call the traitor a patriot if you want.

imho