Lawrence O'Donnell broke the story of Karl Rove being the original source of the leak that may result in Judith Miller and Matt Cooper going to jail. Today he's listing the questions he wants to ask Rove's lawyer—if only he could get him on the phone:
I have a call in to Bob Luskin, Karl Rove’s lawyer, but I’m not holding my breath for a call back. He knows I know too much, since I broke the story last week that his client is one of the secret sources Matt Cooper has been protecting for the last two years. I have three questions for Luskin:
Q: You’ve said Rove is not a target of the investigation. Is he a subject of the investigation?
Q: Since Time delivered its e-mails to the prosecutor on Friday, have you asked the prosecutor whether Rove’s status has changed? From witness to subject? Or subject to target?
Q: You told Newsweek that your client “never knowingly disclosed classified information.” Did Rove ever unknowingly disclose classified information? Click here to continue reading
Joining him over at HuffingtonPost.com is Alan Dershowitz , who wonders why Robert Novak seems to be getting off scot-free. And my favorite post today comes from Craig Crawford—whose posts are focusing on the damage this story may do to anonymous sourcing in general:
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. Lucky for you, Matt Cooper and Judith Miller care about what's left of the First Amendment and the need for journalists to protect confidential sources, no matter how dirty the source's hands might be. Unlucky for them, the federal courts think freedom of the press does not include staying out of jail for doing your job. If you are one of these public officials who love to rail against the news media, you are also a hypocrite. Because now you are hiding behind the media's constitutional protections to escape accountability for endangering national security. That makes you a coward, a hypocrite and a criminal.
--Alexandra Walker |
Wednesday 10:21 AM
