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Judge Orders Jail for N.Y. Times Reporter

By PETE YOST (Direct descendent of Karl Marx! - tha malcontent)
Associated Press Writer July, 05:25 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) � New York Times reporter Judith Miller was jailed Wednesday for refusing to divulge a confidential source to a grand jury investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name. Another reporter, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, agreed to talk and avoided jail.

(ap) - "Investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name."... This is a "Fact", AP? From what I understand, this is not an Established Fact. The Appropriate, Honest and Objective Journalistic way to to Report this is to call it an "Alleged leak". As to whether or not someone in the Administration "leaked" it, it could have been any person, including hold-overs from Clinton, or even people close to Wilson's Wife in the CIA who are also at odds with the current Administration. It could very well have been a smoke screen to take the Focus off of this CIA Agent and her Assistance with her Husband in Attacking this President. This is a great piece about the issue by Clifford May: http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200407121105.asp It's very well Sourced, and includes the Senate Intelligence Committee's Report's Conclusion: http://intelligence.senate.gov/iraqreport2.pdf that Joe Wilson was Lying, "Valerie had nothing to do with the matter, She definitely had not proposed that I make the trip (To Niger)." Well, the SICR found a Memo by his Wife, and he was Lying. The REAL Scandal is that his Wife got him an 8 day Vacation to Niger to come back here and Report in Word, not on Paper, that the President Lied about Yellow Cake... Problem is, Bush (43) Referred to British Intelligence Reports of "Yellow Cake", which not only does the British Government stand by to this Day, the Facts have played out to back that British Assertion... Either way, the President Specifically Source the Brits, and that's not a Lie, Liberals, but your Assertions to the Contrary are either Lies or Ignorance of the Facts! If the "Free Press" was being Honest, as opposed to Assisting in the Attempted Destruction of this President that began the day they Failed to Sue Algore into Office while they counted Dimpled Chads, you may have known these Facts. When this plays out, Joe and his Wife are going to be the one's in Trouble, not the President. But when that happens, the "Free Press" will have moved onto the next Attack, as they always do! Remember the Downing Street Memos?... Yeah, another shinning example of Journalism gone Criminal. Destruction of Original Source to Protect Source. If that's the Standard, then I can Report anything I want, can't I? Only in the Left's (r)eality! What you can count on though, is that the AP will not cite the Senate Report Documenting Joe Wilson as Liar! But feel free to read further and find out for yourself! I know the AP so well, I could have written this TRIPE for them! - tha malcontent)

Cooper agreed to cooperate with prosecutors after disclosing that his source had given him permission to do so hours earlier. The about-face came after nearly two years of refusals to disclose the information.

The developments added further intrigue to what already was one of the most closely watched press freedom cases in recent history.

"I do not view myself as above the law," Miller told U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan. "You are right to send me to prison."

But she said she had an obligation to protect a confidential source: "I do not make confidentiality pledges lightly, but when I do I must honor them."

Hogan was adamant that Miller comply with the court's order to testify.

"If she was given a pass on this, the next person who comes up" might refuse to cooperate as well, Hogan said. "There is still a realistic possibility that confinement might cause her to testify."

Cooper said his source had given him a waiver just before the court session, enabling the journalist to cooperate with the probe into who leaked the name of CIA officer Valerie Plame. Cooper said that he had been prepared to go to jail and that on Tuesday night, "I hugged my son goodbye and told him it might be a long time before I see him again."

Hogan held the reporters in civil contempt of court in October, rejecting their argument that the First Amendment shielded them from revealing their sources. Last month the Supreme Court refused to intervene.

The use of anonymous sources has long been debated. News organizations say they seek to balance a need to promise confidentiality � to elicit key information � against a desire to be open about their sources to readers, viewers and listeners.

The Miller-Cooper case has been seen as a test of press freedom, and numerous media groups have lined up behind the reporters. Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have shield laws protecting reporters from having to identify their confidential sources, though there is no federal protection. Congress is considering a bill, however, and Cooper and others involved in the case have urged passage.

Unless she decides to talk, Miller will be jailed until the grand jury ends its work in October. Hogan speculated Miller's confinement might cause her source to give her a more specific waiver of confidentiality, as Cooper's source had.

The judge did not say where she would be incarcerated, but she was seen entering the Alexandria Detention Center. The Virginia facility's best-known resident is convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.

Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is investigating the question of who leaked the identity of CIA officer Plame. Disclosure of an undercover intelligence officer's identity can be a federal crime if prosecutors can show the leak was intentional and the person who released that information knew of the officer's secret status.

Plame's name was disclosed in a column by Robert Novak days after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, questioned part of President Bush's justification for invading Iraq.

Wilson was sent to Africa by the Bush administration to investigate an intelligence claim that Saddam Hussein may have purchased yellowcake uranium from Niger in the late 1990s for use in nuclear weapons. Wilson said he could not verify the claim and accused the administration for manipulating the intelligence to "exaggerate the Iraqi threat."

Novak, whose column cited as sources two unidentified senior Bush administration officials, has refused to say whether he has testified before the grand jury or has been subpoenaed. Cooper's story mentioning Plame's name appeared after Novak's column. Miller did some reporting, but never wrote a story.

Among the witnesses Fitzgerald's investigators have questioned are Bush; Vice President Dick Cheney; Bush political adviser Karl Rove; Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who is now the attorney general. Fitzgerald has said his probe is finished except for hearing from Miller and Cooper.

"If somebody broke the law to get back at Mr. Wilson, every eyewitness should come forward to testify," Fitzgerald told Hogan. "The grand jury wants to know the truth. We are having the whole thing derailed by one person."

Pointing to broader implications, Fitzgerald said that "we can't have 50,000 journalists" making their own decisions about whether to reveal sources.

After Hogan passed judgment, Miller stood up, hugged her lawyers and was escorted from the courtroom, touching Cooper on the hand as she passed by.

The executive editor of the Times, Bill Keller, said outside the courthouse that Miller's decision was a "brave and principled choice." He called the jailing "a chilling conclusion to an utterly confounding case."

Asked why prosecutors sought Miller's testimony when she never wrote a story about Plame, Times attorney Floyd Abrams said, "We don't know, but most likely somebody testified to the grand jury that he or she had spoken to Judy."

Keller said he did not know why Miller never wrote a story, adding, "I guess she didn't feel she had enough to go with at the time."

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