Comments on: Viveca Novak: The Grinch’s Assistant http://informedspeculation.com/2005/12/11/viveca-novak-the-grinchs-assistant/ Refunds Cheerfully Given To All Who Disagree Sat, 07 Apr 2012 09:00:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: mtl http://informedspeculation.com/2005/12/11/viveca-novak-the-grinchs-assistant/comment-page-1/#comment-8872 mtl Mon, 12 Dec 2005 14:28:57 +0000 http://decision08.net/2005/12/11/viveca-novak-the-grinchs-assistant/#comment-8872 "Among the letters submitted by [Time's Matt] Cooper [to the judge considering whether to compel his testimony] was one from a former Time White House correspondent, Hugh Sidey. "In this case it seems to me the protection of a source transcends the other considerations,which do not seem to threaten national security," he wrote. Mr. Sidey said in an interview that the identity of the CIA operative, Ms. Plame, was widely known--well before Mr. Cooper talked to his sources. "You know this game as well as I do," Mr. Sidey said. "That name was knocking around in the sub rosa world we live in for a long time." " http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getFiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2005/07/06&ID=Ar00701&Mode=HTML So Time's Washington editor knew, but didn't share the knowledge with his own staff? Puhleez... “Among the letters submitted by [Time's Matt] Cooper [to the judge considering whether to compel his testimony] was one from a former Time White House correspondent, Hugh Sidey. “In this case it seems to me the protection of a source transcends the other considerations,which do not seem to threaten national security,” he wrote.

Mr. Sidey said in an interview that the identity of the CIA operative, Ms. Plame, was widely known–well before Mr. Cooper talked to his sources. “You know this game as well as I do,” Mr. Sidey said. “That name was knocking around in the sub rosa world we live in for a long time.” ”

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So Time’s Washington editor knew, but didn’t share the knowledge with his own staff? Puhleez…

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