NYT's Seems to suggest Ted Olson cut a deal releasing Cooper from Jailtime

[KoKo]

(DU rules don't allow me to get all the relevant parts into this snip...but it seems that NYT's is sniping at Cooper in some way in this interesting article about all the behind the scenes goings on. They replaced Floyd Abrams with Ted Olson AFTER the Sumpremes refused to hear the case and seem to be suggesting that Olson might have made a deal that Abrams couldn't or wouldn't. They also mention Cooper's wife Mandy Grunwald as a Democratic Campaign Strategist and say that "Time Mag." unlike the NYT's was held in "contempt" (first time I've heard that) :eyes:
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For Time Inc. Reporter, a Frenzied Decision to Testify


The widely divergent outcomes of Mr. Cooper's case and Ms. Miller's case reflected an evolving split in their legal strategies. At first the two reporters shared a legal team, led by Floyd Abrams, a noted First Amendment lawyer.

But after a federal appeals court refused to block Mr. Fitzgerald's subpoenas, Time and Mr. Cooper replaced Mr. Abrams with a team led by Theodore B. Olson, a former United States solicitor general in the Bush administration who is now with Gibson Dunn & Crutcher.

In an interview on Friday, Norman Pearlstine, the editor in chief of Time Inc., which is owned by Time Warner, said he hired new lawyers to bring a fresh perspective and complementary talents, not to seek a deal.

George Freeman, an assistant general counsel of The New York Times Company, said the organizations' lawyers worked well together in the months before the Supreme Court's refusal of their appeals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/11/politics/11time.html?pagewanted=2