Judith Miller 7th wife and confidant of Ahmed Chalabi released from jail
New York Times reporter released from jail
New York Times reporter released from jail
06:37 PM CDT on Thursday, September 29, 2005
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON – Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released, The Philadelphia Inquirer has learned.
Miller left an Alexandria, Va. jail at 3:55 p.m., a jail official said.
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.
A 1982 federal law makes it a crime to disclose the name of American covert agents
New York Times reporter released from jail
06:37 PM CDT on Thursday, September 29, 2005
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON – Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to identify a source, has been released, The Philadelphia Inquirer has learned.
Miller left an Alexandria, Va. jail at 3:55 p.m., a jail official said.
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.
A 1982 federal law makes it a crime to disclose the name of American covert agents
