A choice without an alternative.
It's a difficult decision: Protect the First Amendment or expose Karl Rove for what he really is: a traitor.
Turns out, Rove, the Bush demagogue ("1. A leader who obtains power by means of impassioned appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace.) may, just MAY be named in the Matt Cooper documents. A lot of people are waiting with baited breath. Including Rove, I'll bet.
A little background from Editor and Publisher:
NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to a federal judge, revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified as his source or sources in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant. Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, now claims that at least two authoritative sources have confirmed that one name is top White House mastermind Karl Rove.
This afternoon, Newsweek's Michael Isikoff confirmed that Cooper did indeed talk to Rove for his story, but Rove's lawyer denied he was the key leaker in the case.
According to Isikoff, Luskin told Newsweek that Rove "never knowingly disclosed classified information" and that "he did not tell any reporter that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA." Luskin declined, however, to discuss any other details. He noted that Rove had testified before the grand jury "two or three times" and signed a waiver authorizing reporters to testify about their conversations with him.
"He has answered every question that has been put to him about his conversations with Cooper and anybody else," Luskin said. But one of the two lawyers representing a witness sympathetic to the White House told Newsweek that there was growing "concern" in the White House that the prosecutor is interested in Rove.
Wonder how well Rove's been sleeping lately? First the issued his moronic quote blasting liberals for being soft on terrorism (which has proven laughable) and now this.
Wonder if 'never knowingly disclosing' classified information is enough to keep a traitor out of jail? Even one as connected as Rove?
Still, Is getting Rove worth trashing reporter confidentiality?
Apparently it's a non-issue, as the reporter's already turned over his documents. Regrettably.
I hope it's worth it.
And so it goes.
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