In addition, the subpoenas issued by Fitzgerald to the White House called for, among other things:
1) All documents from February 1, 2002 through 2003 related to Plame, Wilson's trip to Niger, or to contacts with journalists.
2) All documents from July 6 to July 21, 2003 from the White House Iraq Group (of which Libby, Hadley, and Rove were members).
3) All documents relating to conversations with Matt Cooper of Time Magazine.
According to reporter, Jason Leopold, neither Hadley nor Rove disclosed the communication about Valerie when they were questioned by the FBI, or testified to the grand jury.
Rove said that he found out about Valerie from reporters, and, "Hadley testified that he recalled learning about Plame Wilson when her name was published in a newspaper column," Leopold said.
As it turns out, the email to Hadley was sent within minutes after Rove spoke to Cooper on July 11, 2003, and included the comments: "Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that he's got a welfare reform story coming. When he finished his brief heads-up he immediately launched into Niger. Isn't this damaging? Hasn't the president been hurt? I didn't take the bait, but I said if I were him I wouldn't get Time far out in front on this."
In February 2006, Fitzgerald informed Libby's attorneys that the White House had turned over about 250 pages of previously undisclosed e-mails from the Cheney's office, which have no doubt provided hours of interesting reading for the prosecutor's team.
With his feet to the fire, on October 15, 2004, Rove marched back into the grand jury to change his story and say that he must have discussed Valerie with Cooper after all, because the e-mail established that he had in fact had a conversation with Cooper.
That day, Viveca Novak wrote a web exclusive for Time and quoted her drinking buddy, Luskin as saying: "My client appeared voluntarily before the grand jury and has cooperated with the investigation since it began."
In the article, Viveca mentions a question to which she knows the answer but doesn't share it with her readers. "Fitzgerald is trying to find out who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative married to former ambassador Joe Wilson, to several journalists in July 2003," she wrote.
In December 2005, Luskin testified that his meeting with Viveca where he learned about the Rove-Cooper connection, took place in late January or early February 2004, the same month in which Rove had reportedly testified twice and Fitzgerald had sought the authority to prosecute officials if they were found to have obstructed his investigation.
However the problem is that Viveca, says she thinks the conversation took place in either March or May 2004.
But a more pressing dilemma for Viveca personally, has turned out to be that she continued to write articles on the leak case without informing her boss at Time Magazine about her insider knowledge of the facts.
According to the April 27, 2006, New York Times, Viveca no longer works for Time. "She left the magazine after a dispute over her role in the case," the NYT's said, "taking a buyout package last month."
So it looks like another journalist bites the dust in the wake of the illegal conduct by the White House. After a 20-some year tenure, Judy Miller got the boot from the New York Times for not revealing her involvement with the Libby to her boss. Bob Novak got hot under the collar when asked a question about his part in the case and walked of a live broadcast on CNN and got canned, and even Bob Woodward is said to have fallen off his pedestal at the Washington Post.
1) All documents from February 1, 2002 through 2003 related to Plame, Wilson's trip to Niger, or to contacts with journalists.
2) All documents from July 6 to July 21, 2003 from the White House Iraq Group (of which Libby, Hadley, and Rove were members).
3) All documents relating to conversations with Matt Cooper of Time Magazine.
Rove said that he found out about Valerie from reporters, and, "Hadley testified that he recalled learning about Plame Wilson when her name was published in a newspaper column," Leopold said.
As it turns out, the email to Hadley was sent within minutes after Rove spoke to Cooper on July 11, 2003, and included the comments: "Matt Cooper called to give me a heads-up that he's got a welfare reform story coming. When he finished his brief heads-up he immediately launched into Niger. Isn't this damaging? Hasn't the president been hurt? I didn't take the bait, but I said if I were him I wouldn't get Time far out in front on this."
In February 2006, Fitzgerald informed Libby's attorneys that the White House had turned over about 250 pages of previously undisclosed e-mails from the Cheney's office, which have no doubt provided hours of interesting reading for the prosecutor's team.
With his feet to the fire, on October 15, 2004, Rove marched back into the grand jury to change his story and say that he must have discussed Valerie with Cooper after all, because the e-mail established that he had in fact had a conversation with Cooper.
That day, Viveca Novak wrote a web exclusive for Time and quoted her drinking buddy, Luskin as saying: "My client appeared voluntarily before the grand jury and has cooperated with the investigation since it began."
In the article, Viveca mentions a question to which she knows the answer but doesn't share it with her readers. "Fitzgerald is trying to find out who leaked the identity of Valerie Plame, a CIA operative married to former ambassador Joe Wilson, to several journalists in July 2003," she wrote.
In December 2005, Luskin testified that his meeting with Viveca where he learned about the Rove-Cooper connection, took place in late January or early February 2004, the same month in which Rove had reportedly testified twice and Fitzgerald had sought the authority to prosecute officials if they were found to have obstructed his investigation.
However the problem is that Viveca, says she thinks the conversation took place in either March or May 2004.
But a more pressing dilemma for Viveca personally, has turned out to be that she continued to write articles on the leak case without informing her boss at Time Magazine about her insider knowledge of the facts.
According to the April 27, 2006, New York Times, Viveca no longer works for Time. "She left the magazine after a dispute over her role in the case," the NYT's said, "taking a buyout package last month."
So it looks like another journalist bites the dust in the wake of the illegal conduct by the White House. After a 20-some year tenure, Judy Miller got the boot from the New York Times for not revealing her involvement with the Libby to her boss. Bob Novak got hot under the collar when asked a question about his part in the case and walked of a live broadcast on CNN and got canned, and even Bob Woodward is said to have fallen off his pedestal at the Washington Post.
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