Bush: No Comment On Rove
Dems Seek Bush Adviser's Ouster Over Leak; Time Reporter Testifies
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Play CBS Video Video Reporter Names Rove As Source Matt Cooper acknowledged his confidential White House source on the CIA leak was indeed Karl Rove. John Roberts reports that Rove's immediate problem is not likely criminal, but political.
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Video Bush: Will Not Prejudge CBS News Raw: President Bush met with his cabinet and discussed Karl Rove. He expressed that he 'will not prejudge, based on media reports.'
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Video John Roberts Reports CBS News' White House Correspondent John Roberts gave a summary of the White House's mum on Karl Rove, the president's 30th Cabinet meeting, homeland security and John Bolton.
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President Bush meets with members of his cabinet in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Wednesday, July 13, 2005, as his deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, left, looks on. (AP)
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Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper's e-mails suggest that Karl Rove spoke with him about CIA officer Valerie Plame before her name was leaked to the press. (AP)
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Meantime, Cooper was in U.S. District Court on Wednesday to testify before the grand jury investigating the leak. His appearance lasted 2 1/2 hours.
"I testified openly and honestly," Cooper said outside the courthouse, without divulging details of what transpired there. "I have no idea whether a crime was committed or not. That's something the special counsel's going to have to determine," he said.
Cooper had refused to reveal his source for the story but agreed to do so after a confidentiality agreement was waived by Rove. That came just before Cooper could have been sent to jail for not cooperating with the investigation into who in the Bush administration leaked her name and whether that constituted a crime.
Another reporter, Judith Miller of The New York Times, is in prison after refusing to disclose her source to investigators.
Cooper implored special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald to wrap up the case soon so the grand jury can be dismissed. When that happens, Miller will be freed.
In September and October 2003, McClellan said he had spoken to Rove about the Plame matter and that Rove wasn't involved in the leak. McClellan refused for a third day Wednesday to discuss the denials of two years ago, saying that to do so would impinge on the ongoing criminal investigation of the leak.
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