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...different crime--perhaps perjury or obstruction of justice. It had to be something serious, they suggested, for Fitzgerald to have interviewed the President and Vice President, to have threatened Cooper with prison time if he didn't testify and to have insisted that New York Times reporter Judith Miller go to jail for contempt of court when she refused to. Much about Fitzgerald's hunt is still a secret: in the court ruling demanding that the reporters reveal who leaked Plame's name, several pages were blacked out for national-security reasons...
...July 6: U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan jails N.Y. Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to testify before the grand jury. Cooper agrees to comply, saying he had received a specific waiver from his source...
...September 29: Times reporter Miller is released from prison after she said her source, Lewis Libby, agreed to release her from her promise of confidentiality. Miller testifies before the grand jury the next...
...Miller, Cooper and Time Inc. (TIME'S parent company), which had been ordered to turn over files Cooper had used to co-author a Time.com story about the leaks, fought the order up to the Supreme Court, which declined to hear the case two weeks ago. Subsequently, Norman Pearlstine, editor-in-chief of Time Inc., surrendered the documents. Cooper was prepared to go to jail, but just before he was set to face the judge, his source released him from his pledge of confidentiality, freeing him to testify before the grand jury. And who was Cooper's source? A number...
...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...