MSNBC Analyst Says Cooper Documents Reveal Karl Rove as Source in
Plame Case

By E&P Staff

Published: July 01, 2005 11:30 PM ET

NEW YORK Now that Time Inc. has turned over documents to federal
court, presumably revealing who its reporter, Matt Cooper, identified
as his source in the Valerie Plame/CIA case, speculation runs rampant
on the name of that source, and what might happen to him or her.
Tonight, on the syndicated McLaughlin Group political talk show,
Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, claimed to know
that name--and it is, according to him, top White House mastermind
Karl Rove.

Here is the transcript of O'Donnell's remarks:

"What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's
e-mails, within Time Magazine, are handed over to the grand jury, the
ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is.

"And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying
this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will
be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do
with the grand jury."

Other panelists then joined in discussing whether, if true, this would
suggest a perjury rap for Rove, if he told the grand jury he did not
leak to Cooper.



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