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After some uproar, the Department of Justice appointed a special counsel to determine whether those who leaked Plame's role and her name violated a federal law barring the unauthorized disclosure of a covert operative's identity. The special counsel impaneled a federal grand jury and subpoenaed Cooper and Time Inc., demanding that we disclose our sources. When we declined to do so, a federal district judge in Washington held Cooper and us in contempt, relying on secret evidence submitted by the prosecutor. The judge ordered that Cooper be jailed for up to 18 months and that Time...
Time Inc. said it would comply with a court order requiring it to deliver the subpoenaed records to a grand jury in connection with the Special Counsel's investigation into the Valerie Plame matter. The decision follows the Supreme Court's refusal to review a federal court order requiring production of the documents in a case involving TIME magazine's White House correspondent, Matt Cooper (Matthew Cooper and Time Inc. v. United States, No. 04-1508.) Norman Pearlstine, Editor in Chief, issued the following statement...
...Time Inc. believes in that guarantee. That is why we have supported from the outset the efforts of TIME magazine reporter Matt Cooper in resisting the Special Counsel's attempts to obtain information regarding Mr. Cooper's confidential sources. Time Inc. and Mr. Cooper have fought this case all the way from the district court to the Supreme Court of the United States...
...this particular case, where national security and the role of a grand jury have been at issue, the Supreme Court chose to let stand the district court's order requiring Time Inc. and Mr. Cooper to comply with the Special Counsel's subpoenas. It did so after the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia affirmed that order...
...committee will meet two or three times in September before making its recommendations. According to Herschbach, it will be composed of four administrators, three faculty members, a student, and a representative of the Office of General Counsel...