"On September 29, 2005, after spending 85 days in jail, Judith Miller was released after a telephone call with Lewis Libby. He had reaffirmed a release of confidentiality that he had given her a year earlier and that she had already known about. Under oath, Miller was questioned by Patrick Fitzgerald before a federal grand jury the following day, September 30th, 2005, but was not relieved of contempt until after testifying again on October 12, 2005.
For her second grand jury appearance, Miller produced a notebook from a previously-undisclosed meeting with Libby on June 23, 2003, several weeks before Wilson's New York Times editorial was published. According to Miller's notes from that earlier meeting, Libby disclosed that Joseph Wilson's wife was a CIA employee involved in her husband's trip to Niger. Miller's notebook from her July 8, 2003 meeting with Libby contains the name "Valerie Flame [sic]".[4] This reference occurred six days before Novak published Plame's name and unmasked her as a CIA "operative."
Former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer testified, for example, that he was told Plame's name and CIA identity by Libby at lunch on July 7th, 2003, one day before Libby's breakfast meeting with Miller.
On Tuesday January 30th 2007, Miller took the stand as a witness for the prosecution against I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former Chief of Staff. Miller discussed three conversations she had had with Libby in June and July 2003, including the meeting on June 23, 2003 Miller allegedly failed to remember during her first appearance in front of the Grand Jury. According to the New York Times when asked if Libby discussed Valerie Plame, Miller responded in the affirmative, "adding that Mr. Libby had said Ms. Wilson worked at the agency’s (C.I.A.) division that dealt with limiting the proliferation of unconventional weapons." ~ From Wikipedia ~ Judith Miller
That's treason*. Plame "dealt with limiting the proliferation of unconventional weapons"? How could you describe a CIA agent's job assignment like that and not know that person was covert or classified?
*Correction: Violating the Espionage Act is not treason, it's espionage. You would think I would have remembered that.
'That's espionage' doesn't sound as gripping, I guess. I'll try to get it right next time - third time's a charm.
