Source Protection

In the end, what did Judith Miller accomplish by spending 85 days in an Alexandria jail? Not much, say her detractors, noting that the deal the New York Times reporter ultimately made to testify about her confidential source in the Valerie Plame leak investigation was similar to agreements reached by Time magazine's Matthew Cooper and other journalists in the murky case. Some of Miller's...

The decision by Judith Miller, a reporter for The New York Times, to testify before a grand jury after spending 85 days in jail for refusing to do so has left many people who are interested in the case confused and eager for more details. Lawyers said it was difficult to predict the long-term legal consequences of Ms. Miller's sudden release from jail and subsequent testimony because many...

NEW YORK Oct 1, 2005 – New York Times reporter Judith Miller's decision to escape jail by testifying about her conversations with a confidential source surprised some of her supporters and left journalists wondering what her choice will mean for press freedoms. Miller spent 85 days in jail for initially refusing to tell a grand jury whom she spoke with about Valerie Plame, a covert CIA official...

WASHINGTON (AP) - Reporters hauled before grand juries. A White House under fire. With the CIA leak investigation perhaps ending soon, some questions and answers about what it has meant: Q: Who in the government disclosed the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame? A: There is not a simple answer. In conversations inside the Bush administration, Plame was referred to as the CIA employee who...

AN AMERICAN journalist at the centre of a scandal over the leaking of a CIA official’s identity revealed yesterday that her source was the chief of staff of Dick Cheney, the US Vice-President, increasing pressure on the White House to explain its role in the affair. After nearly three months in jail for her refusal to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak, Judith Miller, of The New...

NOW THAT Judy Miller has finished testifying, finished spinning for the cameras on the courthouse steps, finished hugging her dog and finished eating that special meal she wanted her husband to prepare, she needs to do what Time reporter Matt Cooper did and immediately publish a full and truthful account of her involvement in Plamegate. Because what she – and the New York Times' publisher and...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Maybe Judith Miller is a really big New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox fan and she just had to watch the dramatic three-game series between the two teams this weekend. That's how absurd this case has become. Why else would she do this? The widely admired New York Times reporter, who had gone to prison three months ago to protect a source and act on a high journalistic...

A timeline in the case of Judith Miller, a New York times reporter jailed for 85 days after refusing to divulge her sources to a prosecutor investigating the Bush administration's role in leaking a CIA officer's identity: February 2002: Former Ambassador Joseph Wilson is asked by the Bush administration to travel to Niger to check out an intelligence report that Niger sold yellowcake uranium to...

A grand jury in the US is investigating the source of a leak that led to the public unmasking of a CIA agent in 2003. The leak formed part of the wide-ranging controversy about the US administration's justification for the invasion of Iraq in 2003. It sparked a major political row in 2003 that has refused to subside. The BBC News website looks at key issues in the case. What is the grand jury...

New York, September 30, 2005–The Committee to Protect Journalists is relieved that New York Times reporter Judith Miller has been freed after spending 85 days in a U.S. prison for refusing to disclose a confidential source. But CPJ is deeply troubled by the long-term damage that the federal prosecutor’s investigation has had on the free flow of information, and the message sent worldwide by...