Yet as the body-count rises, Karl Rove is always seen smiling like a cat that just ate a canary and knows he got away with it.
Why Rove waited some five or six months to correct his testimony with the grand jury is said to be a mystery but it may simply be that when Luskin gave him the news that he was busted, Cooper was still refusing to identify Rove as his source and so he decided to run out the clock and bet the farm.
What could he lose? The odds were good. The Supreme Court had certainly demonstrated its allegiance to the Bush team in the past.
When the lower court ordered Cooper to testify, just as expected, Time appealed the decision all the way to the High Court but was unsuccessful.
But in this case, Rove had the most to lose.
On July 13, 2005, Cooper appeared before the grand jury and informed the panel that Rove was the official who told him that Valerie was employed at the CIA, and the panel already knew that Libby was the other source.
According to Cooper, his conversation with Rove was the first time he had heard anything about Wilson's wife. In addition, Rove had told Cooper that more information that would discredit Wilson and his findings in Niger would soon be declassified.
In a July 25, 2005, article discussing his testimony, in Time Magazine, Cooper wrote: "Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the C.I.A. and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes."
"Did Rove say that she worked at the 'agency' on 'W.M.D.'? Yes," he said.
"When he said things would be declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don't know," Cooper wrote.
Cooper also told the grand jury that he had a distinct memory of Rove ending the phone call by saying, "I've already said too much."
Over this time period, Rove got dealt a whole deck of get-out-of-jail-free cards.
After it became known that Rove was indeed Cooper's secret source, on July 15, 2005, ninety-one Democrats in Congress signed a letter to Bush calling for Rove to explain his role in the leak, or to resign and 13 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee called for hearings on the matter.
When the Libby indictment was issued, and it became known that Rove had definitely participated in blowing Valerie's cover, 16 former CIA and military intelligence officials petitioned Bush to suspend Rove's security clearance and Bush refused to grant their request.
Karl Rove still has security clearance to this very day.
The granting of this free pass becomes all the more obvious when compared to what happened to former Clinton advisor, Sandy Berger, in 2003, when he took classified documents from the National Archives, to prepare to testify before the 9/11 Commission. In order to settle the case, Berger had to plead guilty to mishandling of documents in violation of the Espionage Act, and his security clearance was suspended for 3 years.
Why Rove waited some five or six months to correct his testimony with the grand jury is said to be a mystery but it may simply be that when Luskin gave him the news that he was busted, Cooper was still refusing to identify Rove as his source and so he decided to run out the clock and bet the farm.
What could he lose? The odds were good. The Supreme Court had certainly demonstrated its allegiance to the Bush team in the past.
When the lower court ordered Cooper to testify, just as expected, Time appealed the decision all the way to the High Court but was unsuccessful.
On July 13, 2005, Cooper appeared before the grand jury and informed the panel that Rove was the official who told him that Valerie was employed at the CIA, and the panel already knew that Libby was the other source.
According to Cooper, his conversation with Rove was the first time he had heard anything about Wilson's wife. In addition, Rove had told Cooper that more information that would discredit Wilson and his findings in Niger would soon be declassified.
In a July 25, 2005, article discussing his testimony, in Time Magazine, Cooper wrote: "Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the C.I.A. and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes."
"Did Rove say that she worked at the 'agency' on 'W.M.D.'? Yes," he said.
"When he said things would be declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don't know," Cooper wrote.
Cooper also told the grand jury that he had a distinct memory of Rove ending the phone call by saying, "I've already said too much."
Over this time period, Rove got dealt a whole deck of get-out-of-jail-free cards.
After it became known that Rove was indeed Cooper's secret source, on July 15, 2005, ninety-one Democrats in Congress signed a letter to Bush calling for Rove to explain his role in the leak, or to resign and 13 Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee called for hearings on the matter.
When the Libby indictment was issued, and it became known that Rove had definitely participated in blowing Valerie's cover, 16 former CIA and military intelligence officials petitioned Bush to suspend Rove's security clearance and Bush refused to grant their request.
Karl Rove still has security clearance to this very day.
The granting of this free pass becomes all the more obvious when compared to what happened to former Clinton advisor, Sandy Berger, in 2003, when he took classified documents from the National Archives, to prepare to testify before the 9/11 Commission. In order to settle the case, Berger had to plead guilty to mishandling of documents in violation of the Espionage Act, and his security clearance was suspended for 3 years.
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