WASHINGTON - After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times reporter Judith Miller was released from a federal prison Thursday after agreeing to testify in the investigation into the disclosure of the identity of a covert CIA officer, two people familiar with the case said.
Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria, Va., after reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Legal sources said she would appear before a grand jury investigating the case Friday morning. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because of the secrecy of the grand jury proceedings.
The sources said Miller agreed to testify after securing an unconditional release from Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, to testify about any discussions they had involving CIA officer Valerie Plame.
Miller has been held at the federal detention facility since July 6. A federal judge ordered her jailed when she refused to testify before the grand jury investigating the alleged leak of CIA officer Plame's name by White House officials.
The disclosure of Plame's identity by syndicated columnist Robert Novak in July 2003 triggered an inquiry that has caused political damage to the Bush White House and could still result in criminal charges against government officials.
GOI: (shakes head) The problems for the Republicans just keep piling up day after day. They are just not having a very good run of things lately.
What's that they say about karma?...Oh yeah, it's a BITCH!!
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8 comments:
Yes it is a bitch, but what can you say? I think at this point whatever party is in the Oval Office is going to have crap raining down on them.
Whoah, this is an interesting turn of events. Go go Team Indictment!
You know, this is actually a very fitting end to a very interesting week. I can't wait to see the spin on this one.
I'm wondering about the timing of all this. When I watched Countdown last night, the speculation that was being released in several news outlets was that Scooter was the source which brought the question, why now? Why is he choosing to release her now?
The administration didn't just happen into this raining crap, they placed themselves in it.
I've heard some speculation that it really can't get any worse, what with the DeLay indictment and all the fallout from that. Might as well try to bury it beneath the news from that; it kind of makes sense from that twisted point of view. Use an already-indicted political lame duck as a cover to get this out of the way.
Jessica, I saw Countdown, also. I think crimnos is right, though. When the warehouse is full of crap, what does another shovelful matter?
The Republicans will probably use the next few months to clear the decks of as much bad news as they can, and then hope for good news and luck to give them a good 2006.
Voters are all so, so quick to forget the past and everything that went on in a year when there is no election.
Dk:
Yeah, we do seem to live in a "culture of corruption" no matter what party is in power.
I think that we need some MAJOR changes to our government. I would like to see America move to a more representational coalition style government.
I also think (in order to extremely limit the Tom Delays of politics) we need to limit corporate money. I am for setting a limit of how much a candidate can spend and allowing them only 2 ad's or something.
Crimnos:
Yeah, It will be great political theatre to watch what happens next.
Jessica:
Yeah, they brought it upon themselves.
>Voters are all so, so quick to >forget the past and everything >that went on in a year when there >is no election.
Tom is correct on this. That is why you have to keep reminding people over and over. Likewise, it is important to keep heaping the shit on so that by the time the election does come around, the bastards are downing in it.
This does swing both ways though, the dems better hope that they have all their ducks in a row or they will be swimming too. ~Amadeus
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