Is Judith Miller in jail because there are Bigger Shoes to Drop?

[Armstead]

I'm confused by the situation with Rove. I guess it's like one of those onions, where you keep peeling away layers to find a new layer.

Okay, Matt Cooper has been granted a waiver to testify, and it's already clear he had a conversation with Rove before it became public that Palme was CIA. So that has stripped away a big layer.

So what is left for Judith Miller to protect? If this is all about Rove, then she's not hiding anything that is not now common knowledge or that could advance the case. So, unless she loves sitting in jail, why is she not agreeing to testify, since all it would be is one more incident?

I've seen the speculation that she actually was the one who told administration officials about Palme. But that's silly. I can't imagine she'd be in jeopardy of revealing secrets, if what she did was tell something classified to an an official with top clearance.

This makes me wonder what other aspect she is keeping to herself, or is afraid to reveal. Did she talk to some otehr high administration official, and therefore protecting someone else from the stink list? Or is she just standing on journalistic principle in the most technical sense?

Anyone know or have educated (non tin-hat) guesses about whether there are other shoes to drop?

[Ganja Ninja]

1. If Judith didn't hear it from Rove then it makes the case for

a conspiracy involving the whole lot of them. I hope Judith doesn't hang herself with her shoelaces.

[Lerkfish]

2. Cheney.

[Dora]

3. Word.

Hear that.

[CWebster]

14. Yup

Shady Cheney, skulking in the undisclosed shadows, shifty-eyed, spouting dirty lies out of the side of his mouth...

[BrainRants]

5. Ding Ding! Winner! n/t

[LizW]

4. Yes. n/t

[Hamlette]

6. She may think she'll be a hero but history will not be kind to her

she is not protecting a whistle blower, she is protecting the person who tried to destroy the whistle blower.

More and more leagal scholars and columnists are writing about this. She should be completely smeared and destroyed by this. If there is any justice I mean.

[madrchsod]

7. she is involved in the leak but i think more imporantly

is the she works "directly" with the inner circle of the whitehouse. her reporting of run up to the war and during the war were nothing more than whitehouse pr. she is also linked to the guy in england-kaye(?)- who decided to suicide himself. also what is the times hiding?

[Pathwalker]

8. All Roves lead to Cheney.

n/t

[Mnemosyne]

9. Oniongate!

[Armstead]

15. Life is One Big Oniongate I guess

[Mnemosyne]

21. Sure is Armstead, it sure is! n/t

[seemslikeadream]

10. YES

WAY YES

[warrens]

11. Very possible, but there is another possibility

Under the law, it takes two witnesses to convict Rove. So it's possible he let Cooper off the hook but left Judy on so there would only be one witness and he skates on a technicality. Or he might have mentioned Plame by name to Judy, and doesn't want that to come out.

My feeling is, though, that Fitzgerald already knows what happened and who did what, but is nailing down the details. Those redacted pages must have something dynamite in them for two judges to change their minds so abruptly.

[Pithy Cherub]

17. Yep, Two witnesses for Treason.

One witness needed for other felonies; like obstuction of justice, conspiracy and lying to a Grand Jury and/or federal agent. All of which carry penalties that upon conviction may allow him to negotiate or give up evidence involving other crimes.

Bells going off...
"Those redacted pages must have something dynamite in them for two judges to change their minds so abruptly." Would it be possible since the GJ is coming up to its end that this is also material to widen scope and impanel other GJ's? :think: This could be huge!

[MsUnderstood]

12. My opinion is that she is set up to distract the media

Why not allow her to go to jail so the story becomes "Freedom of Press under attack" and somehow we forget that she is going to jail to prevent naming the president's men.

It worked for local paper. They didn't want to talk about who she WASN'T naming, they wanted to talk about the freedom of press amendment that she is violating (ignoring the fact that she DIDNT report anything).

[CWebster]

13. She is desperate to regain some credibility

to be considered a credible journalist. It is as much illusion as Chalabi's WMD. she is still the handmaiden to the good ol' boys and the old grey whore is willing to pimp her to maintain insider status and connections to the johns.

[Armstead]

16. Maybe. But I'd think there are easier ways to do it.

Maybe a night or two in jail -- and she could get a book out of it.

But it's looking like she's just sitting there indefinetly. Seems like unless there's more to it, she wouldn't be willing to do it unless there were a bigger reason.

[CWebster]

18. You give her too much credit

but it does smack of the sinister scheme of dead-eyed Cheney...

[KharmaTrain]

19. You're Following The Right Ball!

The corporate media is still playing with the crime of outing Plame and the very high burden of proof it would be to bring even an indictment, yet a conviction. This was the gamble this regime took on bringing Fitzgerald in. Something happened on the way to the vindication...someone lied to Fitzgerald and now we are starting to see the same onion Fitzgerald is. Only he's been peeling a bit longer.

The Clennis analogy here is the crime won't be the blowjob, it'll be lying about the blowjob. It's not the outing of Plame, but who covered up the source of the leak. It's almost instictive...like throwing blood into a shark-pool...lie to a federal prosecutor and you're playing with a lot of fire.

IMHO, Fitzgerald has some strong indications of perjury and/or conspiracy brewing here. Our view of the onion shows Rove as the leak...but the real question the next layer is "who gave that info to Rove". That's where the many other posters here smell the same Crashcart that I do.

[cestpaspossible]

20. Novak said he had TWO sources... it's clear now Rove was one of them...

who was the other? that's who Miller is protecting.

I don't find the idea that she is afraid of retribution to be credible, since she seems more like a co-conspirator than anything else.