Times Reporter Free From Jail; She Will Testify – New York Times

Judith Miller, the reporter for The New York Times who has been jailed since July 6 for refusing to testify in the C.I.A. leak case, was released Thursday from a Virginia detention center after she and her lawyers reached an agreement with a federal prosecutor in which she would testify before a grand jury investigating the case, the publisher and the executive editor of the paper said.

Interesting, and potentially a big story, depending on what she says.

Although staying in jail all that time and then testifying is amazing. It is like staying up watching a baseball game going into extra inning after extra inning to the point at which you have stayed up until 2am, yet your team loses. At that point you have to ask was all that time worth it?

She goes to the Grand Jury today:

Ms. Miller said in a statement that she expected to appear before the grand jury on Friday. Ms. Miller was released after she and her lawyers met at the jail with Patrick J. Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the case, to discuss her testimony.

No doubt many on the Democratic side of the Sphere are salivating at the possibilities of what she may say–given the Frist and DeLay situations. And if she is going to finger someone in the WH, especially if it is Rove or Libby, the President’s current rough ride is about to get far rougher.

Of course, just as it is possible that this could all end in a bang, it cold also end in a whimper. Until there is more information, I can’t really say how it will all go.

The NYT piece focuses on Scooter Libby and the whole waiver issue and Miller’s view that it might not have been freely given. This story could end up being about miscommunication and/or misguided journalistic ethics. On the other hand, someone could be in very big trouble. I would state that it is impossible to say at this point–unless I am missing something. I have only had time to read this story on the subject at this point..