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Matthew Cooper (born 1963) is the managing editor for White House coverage for ''National Journal'' magazine.〔(New York Observer (2010) )〕 Cooper is a former reporter for ''Time'' who, along with ''New York Times'' reporter Judith Miller was held in contempt of court and threatened with imprisonment for refusing to testify before the Grand Jury regarding the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation. He was a blogger for ''Talking Points Memo'' in early 2009, and contributed to the magazine ''Condé Nast Portfolio'' until it closed in April, 2009,〔Talking Points Memo (2009). (Matthew Cooper ) Retrieved January 20, 2009.〕 after which he became a correspondent for ''The Atlantic'' magazine. He worked for the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission on a book about the group's findings from the economic collapse in 2010.〔(FishbowlDC (2009) )〕 ==Contempt of court== On June 29, 2005, U.S. Federal judge Thomas F. Hogan gave Miller and Cooper one week to comply with the Grand Jury order to testify or face the maximum penalty of 18 months in prison The United States Supreme Court declined the reporters' appeal of the contempt of court finding. On July 6, 2005, Cooper agreed to testify, thus avoiding being held in contempt of court and sent to jail. Cooper said "I went to bed ready to accept the sanctions for not testifying," but told the judge that not long before his early afternoon appearance at court he had received "in somewhat dramatic fashion" an indication from his source freeing him from his commitment to keep his source's identity secret. Cooper stated in court that he did not previously accept a general waiver to journalists signed by his source (whom he did not identify by name), because he had made a personal pledge of confidentiality to his source. The 'dramatic change' which allowed Cooper to testify was later revealed to be a phone conversation between lawyers for Cooper and his source confirming that the waiver signed two years earlier applied to conversations with Cooper. Citing a "person who has been officially briefed on the case," ''The New York Times'' identified Karl Rove as the individual in question.〔Adam Liptak and David Johnston, ("A Reporter Jailed: The Overview: Reporter Jailed After Refusing to Name Source," ) ''The New York Times'' July 7, 2005.〕 Rove's own lawyer later confirmed this information.〔Michael Isikoff, ("Matt Cooper's Source: What Karl Rove Told Time Magazine's Reporter," ) ''Newsweek'' July 18, 2005, accessed November 19, 2006.〕 According to one of Cooper's lawyers, Cooper had previously testified before the grand jury regarding conversations with Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., chief of staff for Vice President Dick Cheney, after having received Libby's specific permission to testify.〔Adam Liptak and David Johnston, ("A Reporter Jailed: The Overview: Reporter Jailed After Refusing to Name Source," ) ''The New York Times'' July 7, 2005.〕 Rove's own lawyer later confirmed this information.〔Matthew Cooper, ("What I Told the Grand Jury," ) ''Time'' July 17, 2005, accessed November 19, 2005.〕 On July 25, 2005, Cooper wrote an account of his grand jury testimony for ''Time''. The article, entitled "What I Told The Grand Jury," concludes: So did Rove leak Plame's name to me, or tell me she was covert? No. Was it through my conversation with Rove that I learned for the first time that Wilson's wife worked at the CIA and may have been responsible for sending him? Yes. Did Rove say that she worked at the "agency" on "WMD"? Yes. When he said things would be declassified soon, was that itself impermissible? I don't know. Is any of this a crime? Beats me. At this point, I'm as curious as anyone else to see what Patrick Fitzgerald has. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Matthew Cooper (American journalist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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