Also says that Miller "plays a relatively small part in the indictment", while Russert and Cooper "are the main witnesses"
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/29/politics/29media.html?hp&ex=1130644800&en=1642ab33c1c6ad5d&ei=5094&partner=homepageOctober 29, 2005
The News Media
Novel Strategy Pits Journalists Against Source
By KATHARINE Q. SEELYE and ADAM LIPTAK
In pressing his indictment of I. Lewis Libby Jr., the special prosecutor is pitting three prominent journalists against their former source, a strategy that experts in law and journalism say has rarely been used or tested.
It is all but unheard of for reporters to turn publicly on their sources or for prosecutors to succeed in conscripting members of a profession that prizes its independence.
Yet Mr. Libby's trial on perjury and obstruction charges will largely turn on whether jurors are more inclined to believe a government official who played a critical role in devising the justifications for the Iraq war or members of a profession whose own credibility has been under assault.
"We don't have much of a track record," said Jeffrey H. Smith, a former general counsel of the Central Intelligence Agency, "because journalists so rarely testify.".....