Mobile UPI  |   About UPI  |   UPI en Español  |   UPI Arabic  |   UPIU  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Source says Miller had his OK in 2004

|
|
 
  
Published: Oct. 1, 2005 at 8:32 AM

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1 (UPI) -- The source New York Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail to protect says he had given her the go-ahead last year.

But one of Miller's lawyers says the source, I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, was coerced into signing an agreement.

Miller says she decided to testify before a grand jury investigating the possibly unlawful disclosure of the identity of a CIA officer because of two developments.

One was a long telephone talk with Libby and the other was a deal with the special prosecutor in the case, the Times said Saturday.

Reports surfaced questioning the timing of the decision. Libby says he gave Miller unequivocal permission to testify about her conversations with him in 2004.

But one of Miller's lawyers, Floyd Abrams, said Libby's attorney told him the aide had been "coerced and had been required as a condition' for continued employment at the White House.

Topics: Floyd Abrams, I. Lewis Libby, Judith Miller
© 2005 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
  
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
Notable deaths of 2012 Scripps National Spelling Bee AmfAR Cinema Against AIDS gala
Indianapolis 500 Presidential Medal of Freedom Memorial Day around the nation
Additional Top News Stories
1 of 20
Singer Janelle Monae arrives at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards in Universal City, California
View Caption
Singer Janelle Monae arrives for the MTV Movie Awards at the Gibson Amphitheatre in Universal City, California. UPI/Jim Ruymen
fark
"Good News" clubs teach children in public schools the Biblical importance of killing all nonbelievers...
Five arrested in prostitution sting. Article lists their names, ages and distance from a church
Photoshop this power tower technician
Driving drunk and unlicensed, with a kid not even buckled let alone in a safety seat, en route to...
Man killed in Spencer fire. The lava lamps must have ignited the blacklight posters
Passenger jet crashes into apartment building in Nigerian capitol. Over 150 princes, bank officials,...