New York Times Reporter Turns Over Notes in CIA Leak Investigation
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WASHINGTON (AP) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller
on Tuesday turned over notes of a previously undisclosed
conversation with Vice President ***** Cheney's chief of staff
and underwent questioning by prosecutors in the criminal probe of the
Bush administration's leak of a covert CIA officer's identity.
In a memo to its staff, the newspaper said Miller will appear
Wednesday before a federal grand jury in the investigation,
her second grand jury appearance in recent days.
The Times said that it is preparing a story about Miller's
"entanglement with the White House leak investigation" and
that the story will be completed when the reporter finishes
her cooperation with prosecutors.
Miller testified Sept. 30 before a federal grand jury after getting
a waiver from her source, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, and after
receiving assurances from prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald that questions
would be limited to Miller's conversations with Libby, Cheney's
chief of staff.
The reporter had spent 85 days in jail for refusing to cooperate with Fitzgerald.
Miller's earlier testimony dealt with conversations she had with
Libby on July 8, 2003, and July 12, 2003.
The Times memo said Miller met with prosecutors Tuesday to
answer questions and hand over additional notes. The newspaper
reported over the weekend that those notes dealt with a
conversation she had with Libby on June 23, 2003, that the
prosecutors are only now learning about. Libby has testified
in Fitzgerald's investigation.
Presidential aide Karl Rove and Libby had conversations with
reporters in 2003 about the identity of covert CIA officer
Valerie Plame days after her husband, former Ambassador
Joseph Wilson, suggested the Bush administration had
misrepresented prewar intelligence on Iraq.
Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper has testified about
conversations with Libby and Rove regarding Wilson's wife,
who at the time her identity was leaked was a covert
CIA officer. Rove also spoke with columnist Robert Novak
about Wilson's wife. The columnist was the first to reveal
Plame's identity on July 14, 2003, eight days after Wilson
wrote an opinion piece in the Times suggesting the
Bush administration had twisted intelligence in the run-up
to the invasion of Iraq.
The grand jury looking into the leak expires Oct. 28.
Rove is also giving additional testimony to the grand jury.
It will be his fourth appearance.
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