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Judge Thomas Hogan jailed Miller for refusing to testify before a grand jury called by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is investigating whether senior Bush Administration sources cited by reporter Robert Novak in a column outing CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson broke a law that prohibits the deliberate revelation of an undercover agent's name. The case has gained intrigue because Novak hasn't said whether he has testified-- several other journalists have--and some believe that Fitzgerald's investigation has become so broad that he is also looking into perjury or obstruction-of-justice charges against one or more...
...contempt hearing, Miller told Judge Hogan, "If journalists cannot be trusted to guarantee confidentiality, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press." Hogan disagreed, saying this "is a case in which the information [Miller] was given and her potential use of it was a crime ... This is very different than a whistle-blower outing government misconduct." Hogan sent Miller to the Alexandria Detention Center in nearby Virginia, where she will remain for as long as four months, unless she agrees to testify...
...between stints with the government, Roberts worked at the law firm Hogan & Hartson, where he established himself as a top appellate lawyer with an impressive record—he has argued a total of 39 cases before the Supreme Court, winning 25 of them...
...handing over the requested materials, Pearlstine and Time Inc. made the argument that there was now no need for Cooper to testify because Cooper's files contain at least some of the information Fitzgerald has been seeking. In the interim, Cooper and Miller have asked Judge Thomas F. Hogan to sentence them, if it comes to that, to home confinement or, barring that, to federal prison camps, as opposed to maximum-security prisons or the notorious Washington jails...
When I came to Sydney, I wasn’t sure what kind of people to expect. I knew they wouldn’t be burly Paul Hogan types who spent their days drinking beer and chasing dingoes with their mates, if only because the only place you’re likely to see a dingo near Sydney is in Taronga Zoo (of course, the traffic cops are called rangers and wear uniforms better suited for the outback, but that’s a whole separate topic...