Reuters: Was Libby Waiver That Freed Miller Really Voluntary?
By E&P STaff
Published: October 08, 2005 1:45 PM ET
NEW YORK Reuters' Adam Entous, who has been on top of developments in the Plame probe all week, reported today that I. Lewis Libby, the top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, "got a push" from the federal prosecutor before telling New York Times reporter Judith Miller, in a Sept. 15 letter, that he wanted her to testify.
Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's encouragement, in a letter obtained by Reuters, "has prompted some lawyers in the case to question whether Cheney‘s aide was acting completely voluntarily when he gave Miller the confidentiality waiver she had insisted on," Entous observes.
Perhaps someone explained to Libby that Miller was refusing to testify because she didn't want the world to find out Libby was NOT her source.
Anything Libby could do, to get her to talk, would be to his advantage.