Judith Miller MAY be willing to do jail time (instead of reveal Plame leak

[TNOE]

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/search/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000640336&WebLogicSession=QV2e9WMQwtxm3DZ7xGJCGY1D3uqvkM0Lgq4AwQo90Np2glbZcH1b|-8316640151689745158/181605427/6/7005/7005/7002/7002/7005/-1

[Sandpiper]

1. Enjoy your orange jumpsuit

And no, this doesn't make you a martyr.

[slojim240]

20. She knows her life is threatened and that of her family.

If need be she will go to jail but it won't be because she is so loyal to her source. It means the source if really high on the chain of command.

[fertilizeonarbusto]

2. throw away the key

n/t

[kayell]

3. Good, make sure she doesn't have access to a keyboard in jail.

[Catfight]

4. Hope that's a maximum security prison.

[Me.]

5. Plame Thread

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x2408386

[Bandit]

6. Hope she does at least as much time as Vanessa Leggett

Vanessa Leggett Serves Maximum Jail Time, First Amendment-Based Reporter's Privilege Under Seige

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However, the person who received the most attention was not directly involved in the murder. Vanessa Leggett, a part-time college instructor and aspiring true crime writer, stole the limelight when she refused to turn over to the federal grand jury information that she had gathered during her four-year investigation. On July 19, 2001, Leggett was held in civil contempt under 28 U.S.C. § 1826 as a recalcitrant witness.<2> She went to jail the next day and was not released until January 4, 2002, when the grand jury ended its Angleton investigation without handing down a single indictment.

http://articles.corporate.findlaw.com/articles/file/00970/008942

[elehhhhna]

8. she sure ain't no Susan McDougal. Whatsup w/ NOVAK?

[gordianot]

21. Heard Novak broke his hip

Also heard this may be a scam to keep him out of jail.

[robbedvoter]

7. But "What about Bob?" as the flick asks

[el_gato]

9. Maybe they should put her in Chalabi's cell

Since they were butt buddies already.

[KlatooBNikto]

17. The Embedded Reporter indeed! I love it!

[John Q. Citizen]

10. I've got mixed emotions on this.

I don't much like Judith Milller but I believe the source shield laws are important if we ever get a free press back in this country.

Unfortuatly we have a congress with a majority who could care less about the security of our country.

I sincerely hope when Kerry is elected he will flex his prosecutorial abilities and clean house on the former administration and bring charges against the conspiritors in both this administration and the congress.




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[Me.]

11. I Think The Shield Law Should Apply

When whistle blowers are trying to reveal government wrongdoing but not, as in this case, when reporters are suspected of being complicit in crimes. What they are after with this set of phone records, I believe, is whether she and another reporter, Shenon, tipped off an Islamic charity to a forthcoming FBI raid.

[H2O Man]

12. That is right.

There are two investigations involving Miller. Both are being run by Patrick Fitzgerald. The phone records which were recently requested have to do with the belief that Miller tipped off an Islamic charity that the FBI was coming to visit. This has nothing to do with freedom of the press, or confidentiality. For Miller to try to hide her criminal behavior behind her status as a reporter is as obnoxious as a priest trying to hide abuse as being a confidential relationship.

[John Q. Citizen]

16. Thanks H2o and me for the background.

That changes the context completely.

[TahitiNut]

18. There's huge difference between reporting CRIMINAL behavior

... and being an ACCOMPLICE in that criminal behavior!

I'd be willing to be a human shield to protect any reporter who'd report, based on information from a 'source,' WHO IT WAS that broke the law and exposed a covert intelligence operative. I'll be damned if I'm willing to protect an accomplice to such criminality.

[Fla Dem]

13. Why hasn't Novak been indicted for obstruction of justice ?

I know some of you are more knowledgeable regarding legal matters than I am, but if Novak is called before the Grand Jury, and asked to reveal his source, and he refuses, shouldn't he be indicted?

[H2O Man]

14. First, we're not sure

if he's been called to testify yet. Neither side will comment. It's likely that he will be the last reporter that Fitzgerald called.

Let's suppose he is called, and refuses to appear. Then the judge can put him in jail. But he would likely be given the opportunity to appeal, and the case could be stretched out.

Novak could also appear, and refuse to answer questions that deal with the specific incident of the leak. While that sounds unlikely, Novak is an odd fellow. He'd likely be jailed for this.

Novak is certainly an obnoxious character. I suspect that being Bob Novak is some form of karmic dues. But he is not the most important target in the case. The most vile of the criminals involved in the Plame case will be debating John Edwards next Tuesday.

[Fla Dem]

27. Thx H2O Man. Agree, Cheney is prime target.

[H2O Man]

28. I would not be surprised

to find that some part of these scandals gets mentioned Tuesday during the VP debate.

[Jacobin]

15. GOOOOOD. It's where she belongs for whoring to start this war

[Rose Siding]

19. Ken Starr must have told her to chat up the press

He has some experience with, um, controlling the message of a story.

[gordianot]

22. Send her to Guantanamo

[w4rma]

23. Lock her up then. This bullcrap put our nation more at risk to nukes. (nt)

[Michael Harrington]

24. Steno Judy in the Big House!

And they say Justice is dead...

[Postman]

25. can they send her to Abu Graib?

or Gitmo?

[OneTwentyoNine]

26. Tell her she's going to a Fed Pen,not a golf course minimum security

And then after her asshole stops puckering she'll pony up the details. People like her don't fear prision because they figure they won't be going to a "real" prison.

David