You're going to need to read this account of Byron York's interview with Robert Luskin, Karl Rove's attorney, at the National Review Online.
According to a report in Newsweek, Cooper's e-mail to Time Washington bureau chief Michael Duffy said, "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation..." Cooper said that Rove had warned him away from getting "too far out on Wilson," and then passed on Rove's statement that neither Vice President Dick Cheney nor CIA Director George Tenet had picked Wilson for the trip; "it was, KR said, wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on wmd issues who authorized the trip." Finally — all of this is according to the Newsweek report — Cooper's e-mail said that "not only the genesis of the trip is flawed an[d] suspect but so is the report. he [Rove] implied strongly that there's still plenty to implicate iraqi interest in acquiring uranium fro[m] Niger..."I can't tell from this whether it was Rove or Cooper who used the adverb "apparently," but if it was Rove who did, I think that's some indication that he did not know for a fact that Plame was a CIA employee ---and certainly not an undercover agent, if she still was.
Don't forget: it was Cooper who initiated the phone call, not Rove. But that didn't keep Cooper from writing a story a few days later that suggested that Rove was out to smear Wilson or his wife.
Oh, and one more thing: Karl Rove has already testified before the grand jury three different times. He signed away any agreement of confidentiality with respect to any mention to any person of Valerie Plame's identity a year and a half ago. This is a guy with something to hide?
Go ask Judy Miller why she's cooling her heels in a jail cell. She's got a lot of shit to worry about right now. Imprisonment for her is the easy way out.