Mr. Cooper, Karl Rove on Your Cellphone?

Not quite. NYTimes reports how Matt Cooper got the specific waiver from his source -- now known to be Karl Rove -- which permit him to completely reveal their conversation. No, Karl Rove didn't call Matt Cooper on his cell phone and say, "Gosh, Matt, this is silly. You go ahead and testify, I release you from your pledge of confidentiality to me."

Seems Matt Cooper's lawyer read the Wall Street Journal that morning, and Rove's lawyer was quoted as saying "If Matt Cooper is going to jail to protect a source, it's not Karl he's protecting." And that was it. Cooper and his lawyer took that to mean that Karl Rove had released him from confidentiality.

Of course, the same release should also apply to Judith Miller, you'd think. Miller didn't see it that way.