Fun In The Morgue

RogerSelect: A Special Investigative Report, Part II

One good thing about TimesSelect, at least when you're not paying for it, is the opportunity to search the archives (but only back to 1981) for free. (It's certainly more useful than reading John Tierney's latest piece, a media bias wheeze based upon the spittle-flecked theories of Crazy Davy Horowitz.)

I found interesting this little tidbit from an October 16, 2004 (time flies!) David Johnston article entitled "Bush Aide Is Said to Have Testified in Inquiry"*:

Mr. Cooper had previously agreed to speak with the prosecutor about his conversations with I. Lewis Libby, chief of staff for Mr. Cheney. A lawyer for Mr. Cooper, Floyd Abrams, said the agreement was based on Mr. Libby's explicit waiver of any confidentiality agreement he had with Mr. Cooper.

Mr. Abrams said that Mr. Cooper gave a deposition discussing his conversations with Mr. Libby but that Mr. Cooper did not talk about any matters related to any other official like Mr. Rove. Earlier, Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, was held in contempt by Judge Hogan for refusing to testify about her sources in the case. Mr. Abrams, who also represents Ms. Miller, said the two reporters had sought to consolidate their appeals.

So Count Floyd was representing both Cooper and Miller, and secured an explicit waiver from Scooter for Cooper but not Miller. How could that happen? More circumstanial proof that Miller's jailhouse capitulation did not arise from a change in circumstance.

I hope I'll be able to put the archives to good use for the next 12 days. If anyone has suggestions for particular articles or searches which might prove interesting, let me know.

* The titular tit in Johnston's article is Rove, not Libby.