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NYT Reporter To Be Jailed For Not Outing CIA Agent While Robert Novak Faces No Charges
New York Times reporter Judith Miller faces jail for refusing to testify.
Ms Miller, who gathered material for a story but never wrote one, was held in contempt by a judge in Washington.
Ms Miller, who gathered material for a story but never wrote one, was held in contempt by a judge in Washington.
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"It's frankly frightening that just for doing my job and talking to government employees about public issues, I may be deprived of my freedom and family," Ms Miller said in a statement.
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CIA agent Valerie Plame's husband says her name was leaked in retribution for an article he wrote challenging the US government over the war in Iraq.
Investigators are probing whether the leak was illegal, and claims that government officials were involved.
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A week after Mr Wilson's article appeared questioning the Niger allegations, Ms Plame was exposed by journalist Robert Novak, who said he based his report on the comments of two unidentified senior administration officials.
A report in the Washington Post newspaper later suggested that White House officials blew the cover of Mr Wilson's wife in order to discredit him, by suggesting he had been given the Niger mission only at her urging.
Disclosing a covert agent's name is a criminal offence in the US, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3728208.stm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newspaper columnist and CNN co-host Robert Novak said Monday that while he learned the identity of a CIA operative from administration officials, there was "no great crime" and that he was not the recipient of a planned leak.
Novak, a nationally syndicated columnist who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of CNN's "Crossfire," said he learned of Valerie Plame's identity as he was preparing a column to be published July 14.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/29/novak.cia/
WASHINGTON - The identity of an undercover CIA officer whose husband started the Iraq uranium intelligence controversy has been publicly revealed by a conservative Washington columnist citing "two senior administration officials."
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Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."
Wilson and others said such a disclosure would be a violation of the law by the officials, not the columnist.
Novak reported that his "two senior administration officials" told him that it was Plame who suggested sending her husband, Wilson, to Niger.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0722-04.htm
On July 14, 2003, "journalist" Robert Novak revealed the name of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame in print after speaking to a White House official. The agent's husband, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, had publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium ore from Africa -- exposing yet another misleading rationale for war.
While causing consternation among some CIA and Administration officials ("Clearly it was meant purely and simply for revenge," a senior Administration official said of the alleged leak. (Washington Post, 9/28/03)), it has not yet caused a change of conscience among the leaker -- or the man who endangered US national security assets by publishing the name, one Robert Novak.
We don't need to wait for John Ashcroft and George Bush to find the leaker who is on the loose. One man knows. And he should come clean. He is not a journalist. He is an ideologue. And most of all, he is a traitor.
http://www.bustbob.com/petition/
NEW YORK A New York Times reporter said Friday that she was deeply reluctant to divulge a confidential source to prosecutors investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identify, even if the source permitted her to do so.
Judith Miller faces up to 18 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors investigating the leak. Miller, who gathered material for a story but never wrote one, was held in contempt Thursday by a federal judge in Washington. She said she would have to be certain the source's decision to be identified "is really voluntary" before she considered disclosing the source's name.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said Miller could remain free while pursuing an appeal.
"We firmly believe we have the law on our side," said the Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, "that the First Amendment protects us from having to give this information." He appeared on NBC's "Today" show with Miller.
He said journalists needed a federal "shield law," such as those in 31 states that protect reporters from testifying about confidential sources.
http://www.iht.com/articles/542732.htm
"It's frankly frightening that just for doing my job and talking to government employees about public issues, I may be deprived of my freedom and family," Ms Miller said in a statement.
...
CIA agent Valerie Plame's husband says her name was leaked in retribution for an article he wrote challenging the US government over the war in Iraq.
Investigators are probing whether the leak was illegal, and claims that government officials were involved.
...
A week after Mr Wilson's article appeared questioning the Niger allegations, Ms Plame was exposed by journalist Robert Novak, who said he based his report on the comments of two unidentified senior administration officials.
A report in the Washington Post newspaper later suggested that White House officials blew the cover of Mr Wilson's wife in order to discredit him, by suggesting he had been given the Niger mission only at her urging.
Disclosing a covert agent's name is a criminal offence in the US, punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3728208.stm
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Newspaper columnist and CNN co-host Robert Novak said Monday that while he learned the identity of a CIA operative from administration officials, there was "no great crime" and that he was not the recipient of a planned leak.
Novak, a nationally syndicated columnist who writes for the Chicago Sun-Times and co-host of CNN's "Crossfire," said he learned of Valerie Plame's identity as he was preparing a column to be published July 14.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/29/novak.cia/
WASHINGTON - The identity of an undercover CIA officer whose husband started the Iraq uranium intelligence controversy has been publicly revealed by a conservative Washington columnist citing "two senior administration officials."
...
Novak, in an interview, said his sources had come to him with the information. "I didn't dig it out, it was given to me," he said. "They thought it was significant, they gave me the name and I used it."
Wilson and others said such a disclosure would be a violation of the law by the officials, not the columnist.
Novak reported that his "two senior administration officials" told him that it was Plame who suggested sending her husband, Wilson, to Niger.
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0722-04.htm
On July 14, 2003, "journalist" Robert Novak revealed the name of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame in print after speaking to a White House official. The agent's husband, former US Ambassador Joseph Wilson IV, had publicly challenged President Bush's claim that Iraq had tried to buy uranium ore from Africa -- exposing yet another misleading rationale for war.
While causing consternation among some CIA and Administration officials ("Clearly it was meant purely and simply for revenge," a senior Administration official said of the alleged leak. (Washington Post, 9/28/03)), it has not yet caused a change of conscience among the leaker -- or the man who endangered US national security assets by publishing the name, one Robert Novak.
We don't need to wait for John Ashcroft and George Bush to find the leaker who is on the loose. One man knows. And he should come clean. He is not a journalist. He is an ideologue. And most of all, he is a traitor.
http://www.bustbob.com/petition/
NEW YORK A New York Times reporter said Friday that she was deeply reluctant to divulge a confidential source to prosecutors investigating the leak of an undercover CIA officer's identify, even if the source permitted her to do so.
Judith Miller faces up to 18 months in jail for refusing to cooperate with prosecutors investigating the leak. Miller, who gathered material for a story but never wrote one, was held in contempt Thursday by a federal judge in Washington. She said she would have to be certain the source's decision to be identified "is really voluntary" before she considered disclosing the source's name.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said Miller could remain free while pursuing an appeal.
"We firmly believe we have the law on our side," said the Times publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, "that the First Amendment protects us from having to give this information." He appeared on NBC's "Today" show with Miller.
He said journalists needed a federal "shield law," such as those in 31 states that protect reporters from testifying about confidential sources.
http://www.iht.com/articles/542732.htm
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But, Jayson Blair didn't help the Bush administration bamboozle the country into going to war like Judith Hersh's Chilabi led Iraqis (and perhaps Israel too) did (with now well over 1,000 U.S. soldiers killed, well over 11, 000 other casualties, and a rough maximum of 37,000 Iraqis killed and probably well over 100,000 wounded, maybe well over 200,000). Judith Miller -- *WHITE* -- doesn't even get a slap on the wrist, let alone fired -- and her fabrications are barely even mentioned by the media. I wouldn't doubt that this jailing is a ruse to 'rehabilitate' even her quietly sullied reputation. Judith Miller *SHOULD* be in jail. Will Miller end up in "Camp Cupcake" too, along with Martha Sterwart? Not to mention that the mainstream/establishment/corporate American media, of course, fabricates stories all the time. That's why outlets like indymedia exist.
And what about Anne Garrels, NPR's star foreign correspondent, who's husband *IS* a CIA agent (oh, "former" CIA) agent who co-wrote Garrels book!?) How much of what Garrels writes is true vs. how much is CIA disinformaton, diversions, or "limited hang-outs", passed on by her husband?
DON'T CRY FOR ANYONE IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA!