POLITICS: Judy Miller Released From Jail

Judith Miller, The New York Times Journalist jailed for failing to reveal sources in the Plame investigation has been released from her low security Prison in Virginia. Miller has not served a full sentence and many are speculating that she will testify.



Her testimony before a Grand Jury could come as early as Friday where she will name Lewis "Scooter" Libby as the source of her information. Libby is Vice President Dick Cheneys Chief of Staff.

[edit on 29-9-2005 by Nerdling]

[edit on 1-10-2005 by Nerdling]

Wow. A very interesting turn of events. I'm eagerly awaiting more on this story.

Well, it just goes to show ya that Libby has figured out who to put on the chopping block, and we can guarantee it wont be the real person. Its sad really. Notice, she didn't get released until trying to get hold of Dick "Dickless" Cheney! Interesting.

Judy Miller will testify that Scooter Libby was behind the leak.

The investigation of Rove stops when they find the source of the leak. Libby is doing what a good foot solider does, he's falling on his sword to protect Cheney, and more importanly, Karl Rove.

If he's prosecuted, Libby will be well taken care of in the private sector.

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Feel free to add more as this Rove-gate can of worms opens wider.



[edit on 29-9-2005 by Regenmacher]

I'm not sayin' her testimony will be false but I suspect that Ms. Miller has now been "fixed"...or maybe it just took a couple of months for Herr Chicanery and Rover to work out the logistics for mitigation of the "media-hit"... I wonder what Ms. Miller will have for a future? Maybe a Bush appointment... FCC chair could stand replacement. Nah, they'll just agree to leave she and her loved-ones alone as part of the "deal"...shades of democracy and flexible ethics writ large.

WASHINGTON - Finally agreeing to testify, New York Times reporter Judith Miller's grand jury appearance throws a damaging spotlight once again on a White House whose credibility has been undermined in the criminal probe into the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
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What a tangled web they weave, these political folks

Ol' Scooter keeps popping up. Here's a good read.....

www.larouchepub.com...

OH BOY the stinky brown stuff sure gonna hit the fan now. She was known for being an administration shill but now with Rove and Libby fingered as the sources of the Plame leak its gonna be fun to watch cheney and bush try to squirm and wiggle their ways out of this....in such a control obsessive administration, they had to have known. Can you spell high crimes and mistomeaners (obviously I can't)

So why did she have to spend time in jail for 80 days while Libby tried to figure out if he should let her off the hook? I am more interested into why they allow her to talk now. Maybe they got their ducks lined up allready to dismiss this case or bury it

I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby

?Skull and Bones?

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Disquieting? Consider our last three presidents, whether Republican or Democrat, attended Yale and, not coincidentally, the “terror expert” governing Iraq , Paul Bremer III, is another Yale insider. Former CIA Director James Woolsey, who lauded the approach of "World War IV," John Bolton and Lewis Libby, all Yale.

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Libby graduated from Yale University in 1972, where one of his professors was Paul Wolfowitz and from Columbia University's law school in 1975

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Irving Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. (born August 22, 1950) is a lawyer and Chief of Staff to Dick Cheney, Vice President of the United States as well as the Vice President's assistant for National Security Affairs.

Libby was a founding member of the Project for the New American Century. He joined Paul Wolfowitz, William Kristol, Robert Kagan, and others in writing its 2000 report entitled, "Rebuilding America's Defenses - Strategy, Forces, and Resources for a New Century."

Libby co-authored the draft of the 'Defense Planning Guidance' with Wolfowitz for then-Defense Secretary Dick Cheney in 1992.

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by brimstone375:
The investigation of Rove stops when they find the source of the leak. Libby is doing what a good foot solider does, he's falling on his sword to protect Cheney, and more importanly, Karl Rove.

If he's prosecuted, Libby will be well taken care of in the private sector.

Yes, brimstone375, he will be wellll taken care of.

Perhaps this may be the "Call to Duty" for I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Out of the political spotlight and into the private sector works better behind the scenes, don't you think?!

Interesting to say the least!!

[edit on 9/30/2005 by 12m8keall2c]

THere are probly going to be some more inditments following Judy millers testemony. I just hope that ROve gets caught commiting purgery by lying to the court