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So Miller was fingered by an administration official back in the summer of 2004,
and then she was subpoenaed? Then, one theory goes,
she covers for him or her by claiming she was working on a story, hoping to throw the cloak of "reporter's privilege" over the conversation. By not agreeing to testify, Miller -- along with that official -- might thereby have been involved in
obstruction of justice. It would require her oral testimony to confirm what games the White House-level official was playing. ....
A novel theme emerging in some press coverage of the Plame case raises the possibility of unnamed
journalists being participants in a potential crime, and not just witnesses. Carol Leonnig of The Washington Post wrote on July 6: "Sources close to the investigation say there is evidence in some instances that some
reporters may have told government officials -- not the other way around --that Wilson was married to Plame, a CIA employee." ....
She may have just been helping to spin the neo-conservatives' gossip. Her "source" is incidental, as she wrote nothing. No evidence has been presented that she even contemplated writing a story. None of her colleagues at the newspaper that I have spoken to over the past two years have suggested that she was actively working on a story about Plame.
But talking to someone at a high level somehow got her on Fitzgerald's list.
She may have both received the information on Plame from a high official, who was trying to smear Wilson, and spread it as a "carrier" to another one.
Or maybe she already knew what Plame's job was, as her government beat was WMD.
If this scenario is close to the reality of what happened, her "cover" is likely to be blown if and when the special prosecutor releases the information from those
crucial redacted eight pages of court documents that
persuaded one judge after another to hold her in contempt in the first place. What's in those pages is obviously key to the whole Miller case. ....
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