WASHINGTON - After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify about the Bush administration's disclosure of a covert CIA officer's identity.
Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria, Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. She will appear Friday morning before a grand jury investigating the case.
"My source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations," Miller said in a statement.
Her source was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, reported the Times, which supported her contention that her source should be protected.
"As we have throughout this ordeal, we continue to support Judy Miller in the decision she has made," said Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. "We are very pleased that she has finally received a direct and uncoerced waiver, both by phone and in writing, releasing her from any claim of confidentiality and enabling her to testify."Full Text
Looks like someone got tired of a 4'x8' room. Now perhaps we might find out who it is that felt the need to burn a CIA operative because her husband wrote an oped piece. We will also see if Mr. Bush will follow up on his initial statement about firing anyone involved or his amended version that he will fire anyone who is convicted of a crime. Doesn't conviction of a crime above a misdemeanor pretty much preclude you from working in the White House? Especially if you are in jail?
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Looks like someone got tired of a 4'x8' room.
Not necessarily. It could just be that her source said "enough is enough; you can divulge now."
True, she'd been in there about three months but those journalist types are usually pretty firm when it comes to keeping mum. The other guy (from Newseek or Time, I think) didn't say anything either, it was the magazine itself that gave up his notes.
Not cool that they did that, BTW.
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