Fitz Agreed to Limit Judy's Testimony in What Way?

[Stephanie]

I can read the highlighted sentence below two ways.

One, Fitz agreed to question Judy only regarding her conversations with Libby on the subject of Plame. She did not have to testify regarding any other converstations she had with Libby.

Or, two, Fitz agreed to question her only regarding her conversations about Plame with Libby, and no one else. If she discussed Plame with anyone else she is not required to disclose.

I have always had a suspicion that Dick and Judy are closer than we think.

So which is it?

Prosecutor Quiet After Miller's Testimony
By PETE YOST, Associated Press
Writer 25 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - It has been two years since a grand jury began looking into the Valerie Plame CIA identity case, a criminal investigation that could close up shop shortly or cause more pain for the Bush White House.

Following Friday's grand jury testimony by New York Times reporter Judith Miller, special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald gave no indication of his plans, and his spokesman refused to comment.

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Before Miller agreed to talk to the grand jury, her source, Vice President
Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, gave assurances that she could reveal the contents of their conversations. For his part, Fitzgerald promised to limit his questioning of Miller to the Libby contacts regarding Plame.

"I know what my conscience would allow and ... I stood fast to that," the reporter said as she emerged from the federal courthouse where she spent more than four hours, most of it behind closed doors testifying.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051001/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_investigation;_ylt=ArQOzRPFkkMwuKiDg..n9Mus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTA3b2NibDltBHNlYwM3MTY-




Reuters - Sat Oct 1, 4:07 AM ET

Vice President Dick Cheney (L) and his Chief of Staff Lewis 'Scooter' Libby (R) walk out of the Oval Office in this July 1, 2005, file picture. After being locked up in jail for nearly three months, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released on Thursday after agreeing to testify before a grand jury investigating who in the Bush administration leaked a covert CIA operative's name. Miller said in a statement issued by the newspaper she was freed after her source -- identified by the Times as Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby -- 'voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations.' (Jason Reed/Reuters)

[Stephanie]

1. never mind I see my question is answered here >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=4939202&mesg_id=4939202

[whistle]

2. This is a clear case of a journalist hiding behind the confidentiality

...protection while committing a criminal offense.

I understand that Judy Miller did not even write the story that outed Plame, so that alone means she is an accomplice to the crime.

Protecting her sources is no different than a person who went along on a contract murder, carried the weapon, turned the weapon over to the assassin, watched the murder occur and fled with the assassin, then went undercover while things cooled down.

Now, if a prosecutor found such an accomplice to an assassination, there would be no such protection of confidentiality regarding the actual assassin! This is totally ridiculous.

[rodeodance]

3. Her relationship with Bolton is what is interesting. Is he involved? He

visited her in the cell------and I have read that he fed her information in the past on the war.



......I have always had a suspicion that Dick and Judy are closer than we think. ........