Quote :

"Miller forgot source of leak NEW YORK, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller said she doesn't remember who told her the name of a CIA agent at the center of a federal inquiry. Miller is one of several figures in the investigation into the leak of the name of CIA agent Valerie Wilson, also known by her maiden name, Valerie Plame. Plame's husband, former ambassador Joseph Wilson, was an outspoken critic of President Bush's assertions on Saddam Hussein's attempts to acquire weapon's of mass destruction. Miller spent 85 days in jail on contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with the investigation. She told three Times reporters writing a story on the ordeal that she doesn't remember who told her about "Valerie Flame" -- as she first wrote the name in her notebook. That notebook also contained notes from an interview Miller did with I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff -- and was the main topic of more than an hour of testimony Miller recently gave before a grand jury investigating the leak. Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald is said to be deciding now what charges, if any, to bring against anyone involved in the ordeal."

Throw her back in jail.

10/17/2005 7:47:57 PM

You gotta remember to post links.

10/17/2005 8:14:23 PM

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051016-052428-8437r

10/17/2005 8:53:25 PM

she already went to jail, why would she spill the beans now?

10/17/2005 9:13:27 PM

Because her first source is not "Scooter" Libby. Miller is probably protecting someone farther up the food chain.

[Edited on October 17, 2005 at 10:22 PM. Reason : first]

10/17/2005 10:22:40 PM

probably

but why tell now

10/17/2005 10:40:12 PM

Miller didn't want to reveal her source, so she went to jail. Libby told Miller to reveal him as her source, but it turns out that she was in contact with someone before him. Someone she doesn't remember.

What's also strange is that John Bolton visited Judith Miller in jail.

10/17/2005 10:48:20 PM

the chances of her saying anything now that she has already gone to jail are really sliim

10/18/2005 9:07:19 AM

This chick is getting thrown under the bus, and is smiling all the way to the bank in doing so. No one is buying the "I forgot" defense, but I'm not sure if she's going to crack or not. I'd bet not, but funnier things have happened.

Glad to see this case finally getting some traction. I don't give a damn if it's Pubs or Dems doing the dirty work. This shit is not good for the country.

10/18/2005 10:12:07 AM

Quote :

"Cheney aide cooperating with CIA outing probe, sources say 10/18/2005 @ 12:50 pm Filed by Larisa Alexandrovna and Jason Leopold A senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney is cooperating with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald in the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame Wilson, sources close to the investigation say. Advertisement Individuals familiar with Fitzgerald’s case tell RAW STORY that John Hannah, a senior national security aide on loan to Vice President Dick Cheney from the offices of then-Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security Affairs, John Bolton, was named as a target of Fitzgerald’s probe. They say he was told in recent weeks that he could face imminent indictment for his role in leaking Plame-Wilson’s name to reporters unless he cooperated with the investigation. Others close to the probe say that if Hannah is cooperating with the special prosecutor then he was likely going to be charged as a co-conspirator and may have cut a deal. Hannah did not return two calls and several emails to his White House address seeking comment. Fitzgerald is investigating whether officials in the Bush Administration illegally outed a CIA agent to get back at her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was a critic of the Administration’s faulty intelligence and lead-up to war. In a July 2003 editorial, Wilson wrote that the Bush administration “twisted” pre-Iraq war intelligence in order to win public support for the Iraq conflict. Specifically, Wilson called into question the veracity of President Bush’s claim in his January 2003 State of the Union address that Iraq tried to purchase yellow-cake uranium from Africa. Wilson had been sent on a fact-finding mission to Niger a year before and reported that those allegations were unfounded. Bush administration officials said Wilson’s trip was a boondoggle, and was set up by his wife who worked at the CIA on weapons of mass destruction. Those close to the investigation said in June 2003, Hannah was given orders by higher-ups in Cheney’s office to leak Plame’s covert status and identity in an attempt to muzzle Wilson, who had been a thorn in the side of the administration since May 2003, when he started questioning the administration’s claims that Iraq was an imminent threat to the U.S. and its neighbors in the Middle East. The specifics of who issued those orders and what directives were given were not provided. Hannah had been fingered by Wilson To many following the case, Hannah’s involvement will not come as a surprise. Wilson pointed to Hannah as a possible leaker in his book, The Politics of Truth. “In fact, senior advisers close to the president may well have been clever enough to have used others to do the actual leaking, in order to keep their fingerprints off the crime,” Wilson writes. “John Hannah and David Wurmser, mid-level political appointees in the vice-president’s office, have both been suggested as sources of the leak …Mid-level officials, however, do not leak information without the authority from a higher level,” Wilson notes. The revelation that Hannah has become a prosecution witness strongly suggests that Fitzgerald is now looking into the motive for outing Plame and how Wilson’s complaints threatened to destroy public support for the war, which the Bush administration worked diligently to win."

http://rawstory.com/admin/dbscripts/printstory.php?story=1326

Now we know why Bolton visited Judith Miller in prison.

10/18/2005 5:18:09 PM