Posted on 10/1/2005, 4:16:16 AM by andie74
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After 85 days in jail for refusing to name her source, New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified on Friday about conversations with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to a grand jury investigating who leaked the name of a CIA operative.
Legal sources close to the case said Miller, who was freed on Thursday, gave the federal grand jury in Washington a detailed account of two conversations she had in July 2003 with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Miller said she agreed to testify about the conversations only after receiving what she called a "personal, voluntary" waiver of confidentiality from her source. Miller said the source had conveyed the waiver in the form of a letter and a phone call to her in jail.
Though Miller declined to publicly name Libby outside of the grand jury room, attorneys in the case said he was her source. During her testimony, one source said, "she walked them through those conversations."
After obtaining her waiver, Miller said her lawyers secured an agreement with Fitzgerald to narrow the scope of her testimony to her conversations with that single source.
Lawyers close to the case said Miller's testimony appeared to clear the way for prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to wrap up his two-year-old inquiry into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and whether anyone broke the law in doing so.
Plame's diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, said the administration had leaked her name, damaging her ability to work undercover, to get back at him for criticizing President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.
The lawyers said Fitzgerald could now move quickly to bring indictments in the case, or he could conclude that no crime was committed and end his investigation and possibly issue a report on his findings.
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So....Miller isn't required to divulge the source of her information after all. They just wanted her testimony on the conversation with Libby? What a waste of time and money.
Judith Miller Flashback:
Reporters' Files Subpoenaed
New Leak Probe Concerns 2001 Raid on Islamic Charity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9890-2004Sep9.html
This is the real reason Judith Miller went to jail...
Methinks Miller was really questioned about tipping off an Al Qaeda fundraiser to an upcoming federal raid. The Plame deal is a distraction.
Gee, the timing here is just amazing! What happened to her integrity? The left is so disgustingly transparent.
This smells.
She didn't spend all the time is jail to cover for Libby
She is covering for someone else
She's covering for the government official who tipped her off to an upcoming raid on an Al Qaeda fundraiser. The fundraiser was able to destroy documents prior to the raid.
That is my thinking also
Immediately, red flags went up for me. Why would a member of the liberal media actually cover for Scooter Libby?
Lookit, Frist, Delay, Bennett, Blunt, this CIA deal -- this is all an all out attack to slime the GOP for the 2006 election. And I say we go on the offensive instead of trying to defend this stuff.
There's Reid's giving John Huang money to people in Vegas, Rangel's comments about Bush being Bull Connor, Pelosi's travel, LA Dems keeping people in NO, Cindy Sheehan...why not stick it to them for once instead of looking like cowering apologists?
Anything leaked outside of a grand jury is against the law.
Hope the judge sees these remarks and issues the proper indictments.
Fitzgerald is investigating TWO leak cases involving Miller:
1. The Plame Case
2. NY Times tipoff to an Al Qaeda fundraiser about an upcoming FBI raid
Funny how the NY Times isn't talking about Fitzgerald's other investigation...
I'm sick of being slurred and spit upon. Bush doesn't seem to care.
You know, I have been a Bush supporter, and a strong one. However, it really seems that he is caring less and less about what his constituents think.
Bush's biggest problem is that he has rarely used the bully pulpit. He needs to now and badly. He needs to watch old Reagan tapes so's he can get his game on.
The most important point is that the JUDITH MILLER and PHILIP SHENON of the NY Times TIPPED OFF AN AL QAEDA FUNDRAISER TO AN IMMINENT RAID BY THE FBI.
Well, and let's not forgetr Hillary's fundraising issues where amounts of money spent were misrepresented.
Hmmm...
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