Posted on 10/07/2005 1:58:06 PM PDT by Pikamax
Miller Surrenders Additional Notes
According to sources involved in the Judith Miller case, lawyers for Miller have turned over an additional, previously unreported batch of notes on the New York Times reporter's conversations with I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby to prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald. The notes, a source said, could significantly change the time frame of Miller's involvement with Libby.
After spending 85 days in jail for civil contempt, Miller testified before Fitzgerald's grand jury on September 30 and turned over one set of edited notes. Those notes covered a pair of conversations she had with Libby, the vice president's chief of staff, in July of 2003--shortly after former ambassador Joseph Wilson published a Times op-ed challenging the Bush adminstration's account of the evidence for Iraq's nuclear ambitions.
The appearance of that op-ed is generally seen as the event that triggered the leaking of the information that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame Wilson, was a CIA employee, which led in turn to Fitzgerald's investigation. But a lawyer close to the investigation said that the new set of notes details earlier contact Miller had with Libby--possibly in May 2003, two months before Wilson's op-ed appeared.
The existence of the additional notes may be behind the Times' report today that Fitzgerald may call Miller back for additional testimony October 11.
Robert Bennett, a lawyer for Miller, declined to comment. Joseph Tate, the lawyer representing Libby, did not return calls seeking comment. Times lawyer George Freeman would not comment.
The presence of the undisclosed set of notes comes as the Times is seeking to quell internal and external criticism over a lack of transparency in the Miller case. In today's Times, executive editor Bill Keller said Miller’s potential return trip to meet with Fitzgerald could further delay the Times' plans to publish an account of the Miller saga. Deputy managing editor Jonathan Landman, who has been tapped to edit the report, declined to discuss the state of the paper's Miller reporting.
"I’m not going to talk about it," he said.
--Gabriel Sherman
curious.
Miller had better get used to prison garments; looks like she's headed for an extended stay :o)
R-U-S-S-E-R-T
Why the Spud?
Now, we have a high-profile Times reporterette doing a Nixonian "modified limited hang-out".
Edited notes? How can she get by with that? What are the new notes? Edited or fabricated?
Maybe he should ask Miller if she has any notes of her conversations with Dan Rather? < /sarcasm>
So what....appears all these so called reporters are a big old bunch of liars. Miller is most probably the LEAKER...if there's actually a leaker in the crowd. Plume was NOT an operative in the first place. So where's the crime...in the coverup by these so called reporters. LOL
Can someone splain what this means?
He's going down...source said it early...then Ive watched the way he discusses the matter..visibly scared...just a hunch. 8 to 1 odds.
If you listened to the headlines when Miller was released from jail, you'd think that Scooter was the one witholding his permission for Miller to testify. But if you listened further, she and her lawyer also spoke about finally coming to an agreement about "limiting" her scope of questioning before the Grand Jury.
She was in jail until she got that concession, not for any other reason.
Victoria Toensig, who actually wrote the law protecting CIA agents, says no crime has been committed that she can see as the operative had to be undercover and Plame was not.
I have a hunch it's Russert and Wilson and Walter Pincus who should be worried today.
and could require some serious editing thereof. heheheheh
I know this much: I trust Scooter Libby a lot more than any NYT reporter.
I hope you are right.
That is just music to my ears.
Oh I agree no one initially broke the law in the administration. I'm thinking media cabal goes down.
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Let me understand: Wilson and his media handmaidens "outed" his own wife so as to blame the Bush Administration?
Would they really be that reckless?
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