Home About Chat Users Issues Party Candidates Polling Firms Media News Polls Calendar Key Races United States President Senate House Governors International

New User Account
"A comprehensive, collaborative elections resource." 
Email: Password:

  Judge Orders Jail for N.Y. Times Reporter
NEWS DETAILS
Parent(s) Issue 
ContributorBrandonius Maximus 
Last EditedBrandonius Maximus  Jul 06, 2005 02:56pm
Logged 0
CategoryScandal
MediaWebsite - Yahoo News
News DateWednesday, July 6, 2005 08:55:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionWASHINGTON - A federal judge on Wednesday jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating the Bush administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative's name.

"There is still a realistic possibility that confinement might cause her to testify," U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan said.

Miller stood up, hugged her lawyer and was escorted from the courtroom.

Earlier, Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper, in an about-face, told Hogan that he would now cooperate with a federal prosecutor's investigation into the leak of the identity of CIA operative Valerie Plame because his source gave him specific authority to discuss their conversation. "I am prepared to testify. I will comply" with the court's order, Cooper said.

Share
ArticleRead Full Article

NEWS
Date Category Headline Article Contributor

DISCUSSION