I repeat: Where's Novak's subpoena?
This is dragging on too long. Subpoena Novak. He should have been the first and the last.
Time Reporter Answers Questions About Plame Leak
Cooper Reaches Deal with Justice Department to Avoid Jail
By Carol Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, August 24, 2004; 4:13 PM
Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has avoided the threat of jail by agreeing to be interviewed yesterday by Justice Department prosecutors investigating whether White House officials illegally leaked the identity of a covert CIA operative to journalists.
Time magazine said in a statement today that Cooper agreed to give a deposition "because the one source the special counsel asked about," Lewis I. "Scooter" Libby, chief of staff for Vice President Cheney, had waived a confidentially agreement he had with Cooper. The statement from Time spokesperson Diana Pearson said that Libby also had agreed to allow the magazine to disclose its agreement with him.
"The deposition, which took place yesterday in the Washington, D.C. office of Mr. Cooper's attorney, Floyd Abrams, focused entirely on conversations Mr. Cooper had with Mr. Libby, one of Mr. Cooper's sources for the articles he helped author about the leak in July 2003," the Time statement said. "Following the deposition, the contempt orders against both Time, Inc. and Mr. Cooper were vacated."
An order signed yesterday by U.S. District Chief Judge Thomas F. Hogan and released today cleared Cooper of the civil contempt citation that Hogan had issued for Cooper two weeks ago.
