read. OK, Ok, first of all I must tell you I go there maybe 2 to 3 times a year. It's just that things have been blowing up in their kool-aid drenched faces right and left lately. I had to look.
What follows is some of the most amusing and delicious babble I've ever read. Enjoy.
Posted on 09/30/2005 9:16:16 PM PDT by andie74
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - After 85 days in jail for refusing to name her source, New York Times reporter Judith Miller testified on Friday about conversations with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney to a grand jury investigating who leaked the name of a CIA operative.
Legal sources close to the case said Miller, who was freed on Thursday, gave the federal grand jury in Washington a detailed account of two conversations she had in July 2003 with Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Miller said she agreed to testify about the conversations only after receiving what she called a "personal, voluntary" waiver of confidentiality from her source. Miller said the source had conveyed the waiver in the form of a letter and a phone call to her in jail.
Though Miller declined to publicly name Libby outside of the grand jury room, attorneys in the case said he was her source. During her testimony, one source said, "she walked them through those conversations."
After obtaining her waiver, Miller said her lawyers secured an agreement with Fitzgerald to narrow the scope of her testimony to her conversations with that single source.
Lawyers close to the case said Miller's testimony appeared to clear the way for prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to wrap up his two-year-old inquiry into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and whether anyone broke the law in doing so.
Plame's diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, said the administration had leaked her name, damaging her ability to work undercover, to get back at him for criticizing President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.
The lawyers said Fitzgerald could now move quickly to bring indictments in the case, or he could conclude that no crime was committed and end his investigation and possibly issue a report on his findings.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: CIA; CIALEAK; SCOOTERLIBBY
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1 posted on 09/30/2005 9:16:16 PM PDT by andie74
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So....Miller isn't required to divulge the source of her information after all. They just wanted her testimony on the conversation with Libby? What a waste of time and money.
2 posted on 09/30/2005 9:19:00 PM PDT by jess35
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Judith Miller Flashback:
Reporters' Files Subpoenaed
New Leak Probe Concerns 2001 Raid on Islamic Charity
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9890-2004Sep9.html This is the real reason Judith Miller went to jail...
3 posted on 09/30/2005 9:19:15 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Methinks Miller was really questioned about tipping off an Al Qaeda fundraiser to an upcoming federal raid. The Plame deal is a distraction.
4 posted on 09/30/2005 9:20:47 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Gee, the timing here is just amazing! What happened to her integrity? The left is so disgustingly transparent.
5 posted on 09/30/2005 9:21:00 PM PDT by ladyinred (It is all my fault okay?)
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After obtaining her waiver, Miller said her lawyers secured an agreement with Fitzgerald to narrow the scope of her testimony to her conversations with that single source.
This smells.
6 posted on 09/30/2005 9:21:22 PM PDT by ncountylee (Dead terrorists smell like victory)
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After obtaining her waiver, Miller said her lawyers secured an agreement with Fitzgerald to narrow the scope of her testimony to her conversations with that single source.
She didn't spend all the time is jail to cover for Libby
She is covering for someone else
7 posted on 09/30/2005 9:22:42 PM PDT by Mo1
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She's covering for the government official who tipped her off to an upcoming raid on an Al Qaeda fundraiser. The fundraiser was able to destroy documents prior to the raid.
8 posted on 09/30/2005 9:24:10 PM PDT by jimbo123
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That is my thinking also
9 posted on 09/30/2005 9:24:58 PM PDT by Mo1
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Though Miller declined to publicly name Libby outside of the grand jury room, attorneys in the case said he was her source...
aren't these leaks against the law ?
10 posted on 09/30/2005 9:27:46 PM PDT by stylin19a
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