In your original post on the Plame/Cooper/Miller affair, you wrote that "Time magazine's emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury." So, how did you know that? Did someone at Time tell you? Your words suggest that you knew the contents of internal Time emails, which could mean that someone inside Time, which was refusing to give information to a federal grand jury investigating a criminal case, was at the same time sharing that information with people outside Time, namely you. No judge or prosecutor would look kindly on that. Have you been contacted by the prosecutor or the court?
More generally, as it concerns the Plamegate matter, shouldn't everyone in this conversation (except for O'Donnell, who might have inside information) admit that they don't know what they're talking about? Is Robert Novak "skating" through the case, as Alan Dershowitz suggests? Who knows, other than the direct participants? Are Cooper and Miller shielding top administration officials? Who knows, other than the direct participants? So far, it's all a mystery. And by the way, isn't this an admirable case of grand jury secrecy rules actually working? Isn't this we're-all-in-the-dark situation exactly what Ken Starr's critics wished for back in 1998?
To Lawrence O'Donnell: How Do You Know?
Your words suggest that you knew the contents of internalemails, which could mean that someone inside, which was refusing to give information to a federal grand jury investigating a criminal case, was at the same time sharing that information with people outside, namely you. No judge or prosecutor would look kindly on that. Have you been contacted by the prosecutor or the court?