Interesting twist:
Bloomberg News
Time Reporter Agrees to Testify in CIA Leak Probe, AP Reports
July 6 (Bloomberg) -- A Time Inc. reporter agreed to testify in the investigation of the leak of a CIA operative's name to avoid going to jail, the Associated Press reported.
Time correspondent Matthew Cooper agreed to testify after the U.S. Supreme Court last week rejected his argument that reporters are protected by the Constitution's First Amendment free-press guarantee, AP said. A second reporter, Judith Miller of the New York Times, faces a possible jail sentence for refusing to reveal her source.
``I am prepared to testify,'' Cooper told U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan today in Washington, according to AP. ``I will comply.''
Cooper told the judge that today he received ``in somewhat dramatic fashion'' a communication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep the source's identity secret, AP said.
Time magazine, which also lost a Supreme Court appeal, agreed last week to turn over documents.
(Associated Press, 7-6)
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So, let's assume it was Rove. I suppose they will spin the story in a fashion that gives Rove plausible deniability (i.e., he is somehow involved, but was not the actual source of the leak, or something to that effect)?
I know we're all speculating at this point, but I'm curious to see what everyone here thinks. I think that it was him, and he won't suffer any consequences, even though what he did was far worse than Watergate.
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