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Miller was no sooner sprung and sworn than a war erupted over why it took Miller and her lawyers so long to get a waiver from Libby in the first place. One of the principles over which Miller said she went to jail was her belief that the so-called blanket waivers of confidentiality signed by Libby and several other White House officials were coerced from them, leaving her no choice other than to continue protecting them. But Libby's lawyer Joseph Tate suggested that Libby had offered Miller a freely given waiver as much as a year...
Miller had spent nearly two months in jail on civil contempt-of-court charges when negotiations between the two camps resumed. Another Miller lawyer, Robert Bennett, picked up the phone on Aug. 31 to call Tate. Bennett told TIME that the Miller camp had received an indication from a third party that it might be a good time to approach Libby with a new request to personally waive the confidentiality agreement. It took Miller's lawyers a month, till Sept. 29, to hammer out the details with Libby and Fitzgerald. A legal source told TIME that Fitzgerald gave both camps...
...deal with Miller, the prosecutor agreed to limit the scope of her testimony before the grand jury, focusing only on the reporter's conversations with sources about Plame, according to her lawyer Bennett. Miller wanted to rule out of bounds any questions about her reporting on WMD, a lawyer involved in the case told TIME. What remains unexplained is why Miller could not have reached an agreement much earlier. In the case of TIME's Cooper, a deal was made with Libby and Fitzgerald that led to Cooper's testimony in August 2004, after Fitzgerald indicated he was interested only...
...hear the case), eventually decided to honor the subpoena last July. Soon after, Cooper, who had refused to testify after getting a second subpoena and was facing jail time, testified once he received a specific waiver of confidentiality from another White House source, Karl Rove, via Rove's lawyer...
...about now," he says. Yes, he has heard all the jokes about mug shots and crime-scene photos, brushing them aside good-naturedly. "I get a kick out of how hard it is for people to take me seriously as an accomplished photographer," he says. "I tell my lawyer friends that we're probably all artists in some respect, if you just scratch the surface and get the opportunity. I got lucky. I've been given that opportunity...