Posted on 09/29/2005 5:49:33 PM PDT by blogblogginaway
WASHINGTON -- After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from a federal prison Thursday after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer, two people familiar with the case said.
Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria, Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Legal sources said she would appear before a grand jury investigating the case Friday morning. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings.
The sources said Miller agreed to testify after securing an unconditional release from Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to testify about any discussions they had involving CIA officer Valerie Plame.
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And the Washington Post is full of it
Wow and all the media on the wall said it was all about Rove.
how do you explain the timing of this?
Remember- it was none-other then Arrianna Huffington who fingered Miller as the source of the leak two months ago- the reasoning was she was pissed Joe Wilson got to write his BS piece in the Slimes...could it be the prosecutor said, "this is the evidence we have against you- better tell us what you know"????
HOT DAMN! Let her RIP!
I heard she had permission to speak from Cheney's office before she went to jail. So she either has a myrtyr complex or she got tired of prison food. Or the book she is writing is done and she needs to get out and find a publisher. She might go to work for Dan Rather to find the real poop on GW's air guard service? bwahahahahaha.
She cracked. That's it in a nuthshell. She was locked up in a DC jail with the scum of the earth. I'm sure it was incredibly loud 24 hours a day. She's an intelligent woman with nobody to talk to but loud, stupid people all day. She cracked.
She was in jail in Alexandria, Virginia, not DC.
"....nobody to talk to but loud, stupid people all day."
New York Slimes newsroom?
They considered her too friendly to the administration.
You're right. sorry
Yep, more lib demo drama queen antics.
She will probably pull a broussard on timmy russert's propaganda hour.
The Grand Jury expires 10-28-05. She would be out then and the possible criminal contempt charge is pretty unlikely.
Now she gets to be a hero to people and testify as she always intended to. I wonder how big a book deal she can get.
I'm with you. Very troubling timing. Today I commented to a friend that all the Dems needed to complete their wish list would be if Karl Rove's name hit the headlines again. Then they could really holler about the "corruption" in the administration.
It just may be that either Miller, Plame, or Wilson are about to get slammed and it was better to keep it under the radar. Could be the libs were hoping the DeLay indictment would be the MSM focus so that the Plame thing would go away.
However, DeLay coming out with charges against Rotten Ronnie Earle and fighting back might appear to the public at large as partisan politics, thereby negating the advantage the libs thought they had.
I think the comment about Libby was just red meat to the moonbats and Chris Matthews - he needs something to dream about after Congressman King blackened his eye the other night.
"Very troubling timing."
Better now than later. If this was Sept. 2006 instead of 2005, then it would be a real problem. Now these all have time to get resolved in the next few months. We will be on many new stories between now and Nov 2006. Just think how much crap we have been through over the last 12 months.
I don't like it. the 2nd SCOTUS nominee comes next week, and all of a sudden this pops up today?
the flash point for Miller was at the end of this grand jury - she either would be free, face a criminal contempt conviction, or be held again if another grand jury were to convene regarding facts for which she again refused to testify. none of those things have happened, why did she move now after all this time in jail?
the time frame for this coming to a conclusion was not one year - it was more like one month. everyone had talked about the Fitzgerald grand jury wrapping up in October - either way.
What may have changed is she and the other reporter didnt consider the releases that the special prosecutor got Rove and Libby to sign as being true releases. The guy at Time received verbal release from Rove stating it was not coerced. Probably same now with Scotter Libby. Only thing that is strange is why now rather than three months ago?
I agree with you on the GJ timing. I was speaking more of the total package...Frist, DeLay, Rita, Plamegate, Abramoff. Who knows what may come up in the future, but I'd rather have all of this come up now rather than 2 months before elections. Some people make it like the sky is falling.
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