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to: Mark
from: Rich Gauszka
date: 2005-09-29 23:11:06
subject: Re: 3 months for Lewis `Scooter` Libby to decide?

From: "Rich Gauszka" 

I just wonder what the story is on the 3 month long confidentiality release


"Mark"  wrote in message
news:433cabce$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>I have zero sympathy for either the Times or Miller -- they (the Times that
>is, I'm not sure if she did) wanted, and pushed mercilessly for, the
>investigation in the first place, when it came back to bite them they
>suddenly changed their tune. She's no hero, and the MSM will not be
>successful in portraying her as such.
>
> "Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
> news:433ca961$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>> Well nobody can say  "Scooter" Libby makes a hasty decision
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050930/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_investigation
>>
>> WASHINGTON - After nearly three months behind bars, New York Times
>> reporter Judith Miller was released Thursday after agreeing to testify
>> about the Bush administration's disclosure of a covert CIA officer's
>> identity.
>>
>> Miller left the federal detention center in Alexandria, Va., after
>> reaching an agreement with Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. She will
>> appear Friday morning before a grand jury investigating the case.
>>
>> "My source has now voluntarily and personally released me
from my promise
>> of confidentiality regarding our conversations," Miller said in a
>> statement.
>>
>> Her source was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis
>> "Scooter" Libby, reported the Times, which supported her
contention that
>> her source should be protected.
>>
>> "As we have throughout this ordeal, we continue to support
Judy Miller in
>> the decision she has made," said Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
>> "We are very pleased that she has finally received a direct
and uncoerced
>> waiver, both by phone and in writing, releasing her from any claim of
>> confidentiality and enabling her to testify."
>>
>> Fitzgerald spokesman Randall Samborn declined to comment.
>>
>
>

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