Former Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper testified Wednesday in the trial of former Cheney adviser Lewis "Scooter" Libby that he first learned the identify of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson from White House adviser Karl Rove and then confirmed Plame's identity with Libby.
Cooper told the jury that in July 2003 he was working on a story addresssing the controversy surrounding claims made in the president's State of the Union that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium in Niger.
In a New York Times Op-Ed, Wilson's husband, Iraq war-critic Ambassador Joseph Wilson, asserted that the Bush administration had ignored prewar intelligence on Iraq.
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