Did TIME Burn a Source?

This latest tidbit shot Mr. Luskin’s client’s legal travails into the news again, something that can’t make the Rove defense team happy. Time’s tangled history with Mr. Luskin dates back to the last-minute negotiations over the waiver that Mr. Rove gave Mr. Cooper to testify.

Mr. Cooper’s lawyer said he only felt free to seek a waiver after reading a comment by Mr. Luskin in The Wall Street Journal, in which Mr. Luskin said: “If Matt Cooper is going to jail to protect a source, it’s not Karl he’s protecting.”

After the two sides agreed to a personalized waiver, Mr. Luskin still harbored animosity toward Mr. Cooper for painting his client as dragging his feet. It “does not look so good,” he told The Washington Post. “t just looks to me like there was less a desire to protect a source.”

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