NYT: Freed Reporter Says She Upheld Principles (Miller back at work)

[DeepModem Mom]

Freed Reporter Says She Upheld Principles
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE
Published: October 4, 2005


Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who was released from jail last week after agreeing to testify in a case involving the leak of the name of a C.I.A. operative, returned to the newsroom yesterday declaring that she had upheld the principles she had gone to jail to protect.

"I'm sure I did many things that were not completely perfect in the eyes of either First Amendment absolutists or those who wrote every day saying 'Testify, testify, you're covering up for these people,' " Ms. Miller told a gathering of her colleagues in the newsroom. "The pressures were enormous. I did the only thing I could do. I followed my conscience, and I tried to follow the principles that I laid out at the beginning."

Ms. Miller said she had needed an explicit waiver from her source, whom she identified publicly for the first time as I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff. At the same time, she said, she was also holding out for a pledge by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, that her testimony would be limited to her conversations with Mr. Libby and would not address other sources.

Ms. Miller said Mr. Libby had not agreed to these conditions until late last month and so, contrary to what she called White House "spin," she could not have testified a year ago or avoided jail. Mr. Libby had initially offered only a blanket waiver to reporters to testify, she said, not the personal and specific waiver he offered last week after her lawyer reopened negotiations.

Mr. Libby's lawyer, Joseph Tate, has said Mr. Libby was prepared all along to provide a personal waiver to Ms. Miller. Mr. Tate could not be reached for comment on Monday....


http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/04/national/04reporter.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. Whatever darlin. Sure ya did. I think you're still hiding something

WHAT ARE YOU HIDING and FOR WHOM ARE YOU HIDING IT?

[DBoon]

2. Many criminals consider not snitching to be a "moral principle"

covering up someone else's federal felony is a moral principle, right?

[Skittles]

3. she upheld her bush whore principles

and nothing more

[Virginian]

4. Don't ignore the very important part TWO!

At the same time, she said, she was also holding out for a pledge by the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, that her testimony would be limited to her conversations with Mr. Libby and would not address other sources.


Who are her other sources whom she is protecting? How many times did Bolton visit her in Jail? Was that so he could reassure her or so he could threaten her? Is she keeping the topic on Libby because she is afraid to tell Fitz about Bolton and his strong arm diplomacy?

[HuffleClaw]

5. suuuuure

she's so full of it. should be amusing to find out the REAL reason why she caved suddenly. i bet the truth comes out in a week or so.

[fasttense]

6. We are suppose to believe a reporter who wrote a book (and made

millions, no doubt) about WMD in Iraq. She wrote a whole frigging book (usually 300 pages) on nothing but a fabrication. Yet now we are suppose to believe her. Yeah right honey, who are you protecting?