Reporter Says Libby Told Her About CIA Operative

Reporter Says Libby Told Her About CIA Operative: "Reporter Says Libby Told Her About CIA Operative
Times' Miller Cites More Than One Instance

By Howard Kurtz
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, October 16, 2005; A01

Vice President Cheney's chief of staff discussed with New York Times correspondent Judith Miller the fact that the wife of a White House critic worked for the CIA on as many as three occasions before the woman, Valerie Plame, was publicly identified, according to a Times account published today.

During one of the 2003 conversations with I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, Miller said, she wrote a version of Plame's name in her notebook.

In a disclosure that could figure in special prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald's investigation, Miller said she initially refused to testify about her discussions with Libby because she believed he was signaling her that she should not cooperate in the CIA leak investigation unless her account would clear him.

Miller said her lawyer Floyd Abrams told her that Libby's attorney, Joseph A. Tate, had related part of Libby's grand jury testimony and was 'pressing about what you would say. When I wouldn't give him an assurance that you would exonerate Libby, if you were to cooperate, he then immediately gave me this, 'Don't go there, or, we don't want you there.' '

Tate strongly denied such a conversation in an e-mail to the Times, calling the account 'outrageous' and insisting that 'I never once suggested that she should not testify. It was just the opposite.' He did not return a phone call from The Washington Post last night.

Miller was jailed for 85 days for refusing to testify about Libby, until she reached an accommodation last month with Fitzgerald. (more....click on link above)

CIA Leak Scandal: Judy Miller and the Times Speak - Yahoo! News

CIA Leak Scandal: Judy Miller and the Times Speak - Yahoo! News: "CIA Leak Scandal: Judy Miller and the Times Speak

David Corn Sun Oct 16,12:16 AM ET

The Nation -- Finally, The New York Times and Judith Miller speak, and the paper and reporter leave their readers with as many questions as answers. In Sunday's edition, the Times publishes a lengthy account by three reporters (Don Van Natta Jr., Adam Liptak and Clifford Levy) of what it calls 'the Miller case' and a first-person account by Miller. Neither piece explains all." (more click on link above).......

William Bennett's Freudian Slip

The News Tribune (Lite) - White House condemns Bennett's remarks: "White House condemns Bennett's remarks

The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Friday criticized former Education Secretary William Bennett for remarks linking the crime rate and the abortion of black babies.

'The president believes the comments were not appropriate,' White House press secretary Scott McClellan said.

Bennett, on his radio show, 'Morning in America,' was answering a caller's question when he took issue with the hypothesis put forth in a recent book that one reason crime is down is that abortion is up.

'But I do know that it's true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could, if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down,' said Bennett, author of 'The Book of Virtues.'"