Here is more on Judy Miller's role from the Washington Post.

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New York Times' Judith Miller
Criminal Contempt Could Lengthen Reporter's Jail Stay

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The two sources, one who is familiar with Libby's version of events and the other with Miller's, said the previously undisclosed conversation occurred a few days before Plame's name appeared in Robert D. Novak's syndicated column on July 14, 2003. Miller and Libby discussed former ambassador Joseph C. Wilson IV, Plame's husband, who had recently alleged that the Bush administration twisted intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, according to the source familiar with Libby's version.

But, according to the source, the subject of Wilson's wife did not come up.

Miller and the Times have said the reporter has chosen jail to keep promises she made to protect the identity of confidential sources. But Libby's attorney, Joseph A. Tate, has told the New York Times that he provided reporters with assurances that they could rely on the waivers releasing them to talk to Fitzgerald. Tate did not return phone calls placed for this story on Thursday and Friday.

Hogan has publicly chided Miller for "alleging" that she was protecting the identity of a source who Hogan said had freed her to speak about their conversations.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/15/AR2005071502080.html

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1. It sounds like Judy should be worried. Here is more

But in this closely held investigation, federal appeals court judges of very different ideological stripes and Hogan have reviewed secret evidence and have agreed that Miller's and Cooper's claims of a right to protect their sources is outweighed by the public interest in investigating a possible breach of national security.

Legal experts who have monitored the public twists of Fitzgerald's investigation say the prosecutor has been relentless in running down every fact, an approach that may increase the chances he would seek criminal contempt.

"I think Judith Miller is in much graver danger than she might be otherwise, because this prosecutor seems to want to pursue every avenue with a vengeance," said Mary Cheh, a professor of criminal law at George Washington University. "I'd be very worried."

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2. Even the water in prison won't wash the blood off Judy's hands.

There's nothing that can happen to her that is as bad as what she has done to all of us.

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3. So Scooter's Off The List? Who's Left?

Hadley?

Bolton?

Chenney?

Buehler?

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4. Which leads one to suspect that Judy Miller is protecting

a perp, rather than a source, doesn't it?