Miller, Fitzgerald Face Off Again (Terror Tip-off Investigation of NY Times)

NY Sun ^ | 2/14/06 | JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

[jimbo123]

Journalist Judith Miller and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald squared off in court again yesterday, with a lot less public attention than last year, when the dogged special prosecutor in the Valerie Plame case had the then-New York Times reporter jailed for 85 days to force her to disclose the identity of an anonymous source.

Yesterday appearance in Manhattan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was another instance of Mr. Fitzgerald trying to find out about Ms. Miller's sources, this time by looking at the New York Times's phone records, and prosecutors raised the prospect of pressing her directly yet again, as they did in the Plame case to disclose the sources.

At the center of this leak case is the question of how Ms. Miller, who has since left the paper, and a second Times reporter came to learn of the government's plan to take action in the wake of September 11 against two Islamic organizations suspected of having terrorist ties.

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On a broader level it is a threat," Mr. Abrams said. "What he's saying is if you win maybe we will stop following a Mr. Nice Guy path. That is to say, maybe we won't go after phone records, we'll go after the journalists."

[jimbo123]

More info on Fitzgerald's NY Times terror tip-off investigation.

[Cicero]

Judith Miller appears to have been one of the more honest reporters on the NY Times, which is why Keller and Sulzberger fired her.

So, first she loses her job, and now Fitzgerald is after her again. If she had rolled over for Mo Dowd she would still be working for the Times.

[NRA1995]

Silver bells....silver bells.....it's Fitzmas time in the city.....

[MikeA]

Fitzgerald, get a life loser. Time to fire this a-hole. He's wasted enough of my money on his vain witch hunt. Send this fool back to Chicago.

[txhurl]

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