John Dickerson was a writer for Time Magazine and was involved in the blame Plame game the Rovistas ran on Joe Wilson.
In Washington, the only thing worse than having to testify before a grand jury is not being asked to. I never wanted to go to prison or make hard choices about protecting my sources, but I thought I’d get more out of my bit part in the Valerie Plame saga than the overheated scrutiny of a few bloggers.
Back when I was at Time, I co-wrote the July, 2003 story that has made the last two years of Matthew Cooper’s life so difficult. After the special counsel went after Matt so enthusiastically, the arrival of men in trench coats asking what I knew seemed imminent. But I never got to try out any of my Dashiell Hammett lines on them. When my other former Time colleague Viveca Novak got tangled in Fitzgerald’s hunt last year, I thought, OK, they’re coming now for sure. Nope. No Fitzgerald; no FBI; no nothing.
Read the whole thing. What Dickerson lacks in snide, he makes up in humble.