Comments on: Judith Miller to Testify, Now That Her Source Has Authorized Her To — Again

By: nittypig

nittypig — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 17:59:46 +0000

Or her lawyer could have contacted his lawyer. Oh wait he did. But not until she’d been in jail for 6 weeks or something. Why the delay?

Either her legal representation was MUCH worse than Cooper’s or she had a reason not to get hold of Libby’s team before she had spent over a month in jail. I would bet on the latter.

By: capitano

capitano — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:17:42 +0000

It’s total BS.

I asked at the time if she was refusing to testify because of some generalized fear of coerced waivers, wasn’t she under some affirmative duty to contact her sources to confirm their “voluntariness?”

Hell, she could have called Libby directly from jail if necessary.

By: Geek, Esq.

Geek, Esq. — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 14:06:30 +0000

I agree. It was about making herself into a martyr to restore her ex post Curveball reputation.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:07:15 +0000

As I said over at VC, it seems to me most likely Miller's claim of coercion vis-a-vis Libby's wavier was nothing more than an excuse to keep her name in the news and raise her profile in furtherance of her own ambition. The Times itself has a pretty good article on that issue, and after reading it I came away more convinced than ever that Miller is sacrificing a little of her freedom on the altar of self-promotion.

By: Confederate Yankee

Confederate Yankee — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 10:34:18 +0000

It’s Miller Time

NY Times reporter Judith Miller is out of jail and set to testify. I’m with Orinon this. Something seems fishy… Just One Minute, Powerline, and Patterico have more….

By: jd watson

jd watson — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 09:21:44 +0000

It’s not about Libby, who was a secondary source, but about protecting her primary source, who is?