Times reveals new scoop: Time reporter took buyout after 'dispute' over role in leak case

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday April 27, 2006

A single sentence in Thursday's New York Times reveals a new facet of the journalism angle of the CIA leak case -- that the Time reporter who Karl Rove's lawyer thought would help save his client from indictment departed Time Magazine and took a "buyout package."

"In a telephone interview on Wednesday, Ms. Novak, who no longer works for Time, said she had not had any contact with Mr. Fitzgerald since her deposition in December," the Times reported. "She left the magazine after a dispute over her role in the case, taking a buyout package last month."

The Times also said that Matt Cooper, formerly the magazine's White House correspondent, has left the beat to become Time.com's political editor.

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