[Cicero]

Judy went to jail solely for a publicity stunt

We don't really know if that's true or not. She could have had a number of reasons for going to jail.

For instance, one freeper said yesterday that she stayed safe in jail until an inquiry ended into the affair in which she leaked to Islamic terrorists the fact that Fitzgerald was about to raid their offices. I don't know if that's true, but it's one possibility. Another possibility is that it wasn't Libby she was shielding at all, but someone else. Who knows? In any case, she does not appear to have come out of this as a heroine to the left. They all hate her.

[podkane]

For instance, one freeper said yesterday that she stayed safe in jail until an inquiry ended into the affair in which she leaked to Islamic terrorists the fact that Fitzgerald was about to raid their offices. I don't know if that's true, but it's one possibility. Another possibility is that it wasn't Libby she was shielding at all, but someone else. Who knows? In any case, she does not appear to have come out of this as a heroine to the left. They all hate her.

NOBODY likes a sneak. She went to jail rather than exonerate the Bush admin.? What was her angle? Is this really all for a book deal?

[DustyMoment]

We don't really know if that's true or not.

Actually, we do. Within days of Judy going into the slammer, news reports revealed that the "source" she claimed to be protecting had previously released her from any confidentiality requirement. But, it was more important to her to stage the publicity stunt.

As her time behind bars dragged on, the NYT derived all the publicity out of her that they could get, all the time using her incarceration as another way to bash Bush. She didn't decide that the time to come clean had arrived until two events occurred:
1. She had her book advance, and
2. The prosecutor told her to get comfortable in her cell because she was going to be there for a long time if she didn't agree to testify.

The prosecutor already knew that she was staging a publicity stunt and called her bluff. Judy "blinked".