and the plot thickens
'N.Y. Times' reporter freed to testify on CIA leak
WASHINGTON (AP) — New York Times reporter Judith Miller appeared for testimony before a federal grand jury Friday, throwing a spotlight once again on the White House role in the leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
Judith Miller will appear before a grand jury Friday in the government's CIA leak probe.
Freed after 85 days in a federal detention center, Miller arrived at about 8:30 a.m. at the federal courthouse to testify for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald's investigation about her conversations in July 2003 with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Miller said in a statement that her source — identified by the Times as Libby — had released her from her promise of confidentiality.