Rove Source of Plame Leak?

Editor & Publisher reported this just before midnight Friday. Time Magazine has turned over documents to the Grand Jury which is investigating the Valerie Plame leak. On the McLaughlin Group Friday night, Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, said that the leak came from Karl Rove.

Here is the transcript of O'Donnell's remarks:

"What we're going to go to now in the next stage, when Matt Cooper's e-mails, within Time Magazine, are handed over to the grand jury, the ultimate revelation, probably within the week of who his source is.

"And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do with the grand jury."

The Supreme Court refused to act on the case of two reporters -- neither of whom reported this story -- for refusing to turn over their notes and sources to a Grand Jury. In the wake of this refusal, Time announced it was turning over Matt Cooper's notes. No word from the NY Times on the fate of Judith Miller's notes. Both reporters hope that the action taken by Time Magazine will save them from jail.

The story was that made Plame's name public was written by Robert Novak, a conservative columnist; Novak refuses to talk about the case.

Tags: Plame, Politics, Rove