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Music From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

On World News tonight, the dramatic case of a reporter who took a stand.

She will go to jail.

To jail, a federal judge orders a New York

Times reporter to prison for refusing to reveal her source in the leak of an undercover CIA

officer's name. Judith Miller is in jail and Matthew Cooper is not. That's the simple short

version of a story that is anything but concise or clear. Last week, Time magazine, deciding it wasn't above the law, surrendered reporter Matthew

Cooper's notes to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, who was pursuing the administration

officials who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame.

Last weekend, MSNBC political analyst Lawrence O'Donnell revealed on a TV chat

showed that Cooper's notes would finger Deputy Chief of Staff Carl Rove.

On Tuesday, Newsweek reported that Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, confirmed that Rove had

talked with Cooper, but Luskin told Newsweek that Roe, quote, never-knowingly

disclosed classified information or told any reporter that Plame worked for the CIA.

So many questions. Rove never knowingly disclosed classified information, but how about unknowingly?

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