New York Times Judith Miller Released from Jail

[babsbunny]

www.rawstory.com

[leftchick]

1. scooter freed her??

interesting...

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She was released after she had a telephone conversation with the Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby, sources said. In that conversation, Libby reaffirmed that he had released Miller from a promise of confidentiality more than a year ago, sources said.

The special prosecutor in the case, Patrick Fitzgerald, has sought to compel Miller to reveal her source to a grand jury investigating whether Bush administration officials leaked the name of a CIA covert officer, Valerie Plame.

It could be immediately determined whether Miller has now agreed to testify.

Since July, Miller had been held in suburban Virginia at the Alexandria Detention Center. According to The Washington Post, her visitors included former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, U.N. ambassador John R. Bolton and former senator Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.).

[gulfcoastliberal]

2. She gave up her "source" after all, huh?

I'm sure her cell didn't compare favorably to her SoHo loft or wherever her reptilian lair is.

[CrackpotAmerica]

3. I was never sure how to feel about her jailing...

On one hand, it is clear that she isn't my kind of person.

On the other, I believe very strongly that the Press should have the right to keep sources secret at all times.

Let's just hope that the end comes soon and some indictments are handed down!

Nominated!

[SoCalDemocrat]

4. missing the point

You miss the point if you think the right of the press to protect sources should apply in a case like this one.

[CrackpotAmerica]

6. I disagree. .

It's like how I would love for someone to force people like Bill O'reilly to shut up, I know that I must respect their right to say whatever they wish to.

Sometimes, I feel we must even kind of stretch our fight to preserve the freedom of the Press, even if the "journalist" in question "seems" to be abusing it.

[win_in_06]

5. I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop...

[CrackpotAmerica]

7. Hear Hear! NT