Reporter: Not Sure Libby Perjurer

Time's Cooper On His Conversation With Now Ex-Cheney Top Aide

(CBS)  Cooper continued, "I guess the indictment alleges that he went on to qualify it and say that, 'I don't know if she works there. I've heard this from reporters' and a few other things that the prosecutor says constitutes perjury. I don't know if there was perjury here. I do know what he said to me."

Smith pointed out that the indictment apparently alleges that Libby told the FBI and the grand jury that it was reporters, "people like you (Cooper), presumably," who told him Plame's identity. "Could you discern that from your conversation," Smith asked Cooper, "That you suggested it, he confirms it?"

"Yeah," responded Cooper. "I suggested it. He confirmed it. But there was no suggestion, I guess as alleged in the indictment, that he went ahead and, you know, talked to me about how he heard it and such. So, I think you've got a situation where the prosecutor is accusing him of several cases of perjury and obstruction of justice, and you're going to have witnesses or the people who work most closely with Libby in the White House and, potentially, reporters testifying in this case."

Cooper added there's "no question" the vice president's office was trying to damage Wilson's credibility, though he's not sure Cheney's office was waging a campaign to out Plame.

"There's no question," Cooper says, "that they were very angry at Wilson that week, and there was a big effort to kind of push back against him and discredit his trip and him. So, you know, that's the reason they were taking my calls."