Times reporter released

last updated 8 January 2015

Washington, D.C.

New York Times reporter Judith Miller was freed last week after spending 85 days in jail for refusing to testify in a CIA leak investigation. In 2003, Miller was among several reporters who learned that Valerie Plame, the wife of a diplomat who criticized President Bush’s justification for invading Iraq, had served as a clandestine Central Intelligence Agency operative. Miller had said testifying would break the “time-honored principle” of protecting confidential sources. She said she only talked because her source—Lewis Libby, a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney—had “voluntarily and personally” given her permission. Libby said he had authorized Miller to talk a year ago.