Looks like it wasn't a very fun 3 1/2 hours for the Rover.
Rove testified to the grand jury that when he told Cooper that Plame worked at the agency, he was only passing along unverified gossip, according to people familiar with his testimony.
In contrast, Cooper has testified that Rove told him in a phone conversation on July 11, 2003, that Plame worked for the CIA and played a role in having the agency select her husband, former Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, to make a fact-finding trip to Niger in 2002.
Cooper has also testified that Rove, as well as a second source -- I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, then-chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney -- portrayed the information about Plame as accurate and authoritative.
Rove's lawyer Robert Luskin has been putting out the info that Rove's only legal problems stem from his failure to disclose his conversation with Matt Cooper in his first grand jury testimony. However, Waas is reporting that Fitzgerald is also examing discrepancies in Rove and Cooper's account of their conversation in July 2003.
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