Cooper on Hardball today --- should really be interesting.

[Justice Is Comin]

It's for certain that one of the reasons Rove's last trip to the grand jury was in hopes that he could avoid the big I for perjury at least, by saying his lawyer just found a lost email which shows he talked to Cooper. And that email was what refreshed his recollection of the "short" conversation.

But I heard Cooper say somewhere that Rove said something in that talk which "stuck with me for two years. He finds it extremely unlikely that Rove wouldn't remember he said it. Maybe he'll say what that was today.


And also, has anybody caught this? Or more important, did I mis-hear it?

As we all know, Libby wrote Miller the note which has stirred so much interest. But I could swear I heard reporters say he also phoned Miller while she was in jail. If that's true why in the hell would he write the letter the way he did? It's pretty unlikely that her phone would be tapped. Even if using the jail phone. He would have been able to tell her exactly what he wanted her to do without writing an obviously incriminating coded message. Simply follow the phone call with a very benign standard release letter. And if he suspected her phone "was" tapped, he could have used a similar kind of code language on the phone.

As a former detective, the last thing you want to do is provide an actual written record of your criminal intent. I think the Aspen note provides sufficient evidence now that he was attempting to influence a witness. Was she already rejecting him on the phone in jail? And did she tell the jury what he said on those phone calls?

If so, he don't have a prayer. That is pretty interesting to me now.

[YEM]

1. I thought the quote that stuck with him was when Rove said...

"I've already told you too much." Pretty sure that's what haunted Cooper.

[displacedtexan]

2. I thought it was SOP now to monitor all communication...

except with your lawyer.

[Justice Is Comin]

4. Even if it would have been,

the point is that it occured to me, reporters said they also spoke on the phone. What would he have said to her?

[liberalnurse]

3. Do you not find it strange that an inmate

received a phone call? I seriously doubt that she did. Maybe SHE called him collect.