Judith Miller's two requirements

[Moochy]

Paraphrasing her press conference, she spoke about requiring a personal waiver from her WH source, and also the need for Fitzgerald to agree to question her about her contact with the single source (presumably Scooter Libby) and no one else.

The "none else" bit reveals that she was in jail for something other than "journalistic ethics".

She's conjoined two requirements, one ostensibly her cover, that of protecting the right of journalists to maintain confidential sources, with the narrow testimony, apparently protecting other people in the white house, or protecting herself from self-incrimination.

I just was wondering if others have noticed that the news media has conveniently ignored the second point?

[hootinholler]

1. I noticed. n/t

[Igel]

2. I noticed, too.

Somehow agreeing to testify and leaving prison 10 days or so after getting the Libby waiver leaves me cold. Does it really take 10 days to think it over, if that's the crucial factor?

But deciding to testify upon being told that the questioning would be narrowly tailored, and exiting jail pretty much as soon as the paperwork could be processed ...

One has to wonder exactly what was excluded: Islamic charity investigation, other WH informants, or WMD reporting?

And one also has to wonder what would have happened had the agreement to narrow the questioning occurred before Libby renewed his waiver.

[Garbo 2004]

4. Islamic charity investigation issue is not under the purview of DC grand

jury and Fitz as special prosecutor in the Plame case. So that wouldn't be a matter pursued before the DC grand jury.

A number of other journalists also provided limited testimony. In Miller's case, since supposedly she was working on yet another WMD/banned weapons story which ostensibly is why she was talking to Libby, one wonders what content of the Libby conversation, other conversations and with whom, were excluded from Fitzgerald's questioning.

The whole Plame matter arose from the Administrations false claims regarding WMD. The conspiracy to discredit Wilson is part of the coverup. The Administration knew the claims were false, improbable when they asserted them as "facts." That may be the territory, and her role in it, that Miller was protecting.

I still suspect Miller was involved somehow in the blowing of Plame's cover. She apparently never wrote the "banned weapons" story she supposedly discussed with Libby. And she was meeting with Libby two days after Wilson's op ed appeared in the Times.

Yeah, the release to testify issue is bogus IMO. Limiting the testimony and perhaps avoiding prosecution is the key.

[ewagner]

3. Yes, I noticed

and so did CNN....they sort of let it "stand out" in their coverage around 11:15 CDT.