Word: waivers
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...operative whose diplomat-husband had criticized the President's justifications for the war in Iraq. Libby had been a confidential source for at least three other reporters--including TIME's Matthew Cooper--who received subpoenas in the case. All three eventually spoke to prosecutors after receiving a waiver of confidentiality from Libby. And last week Miller fell in line too, testifying for more than three hours before a grand jury about her conversations with him, after receiving what she called a voluntary and personal waiver of her reporter's promise to keep her source's identity in confidence...
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...
...assertion by Libby's team that he had been giving her the green light all along brought a quick rebuttal from one of Miller's attorneys, Floyd Abrams. In a letter to Libby's lawyers "to set the record straight," Abrams argued that until recently, the waiver offered by Libby's lawyers always amounted to a reference to the previously signed waiver that Miller considered "coerced." That position, Abrams said, led Miller's team to assume that Libby wasn't really keen on seeing Miller testify, no matter what Libby's lawyers implied--a hesitation that gave Miller pause...
...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 in Cooper's conversations with Libby. Cooper called Libby himself to ask for a waiver; Libby asked Cooper to have his lawyer, who happened to be Abrams, call Tate to work out the details. Two other journalists, Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post and Tim Russert of NBC News, also gave testimony on their conversations with Libby...
...prosecutor all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court (it declined to 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...