NYT:
WASHINGTON, July 6 – A federal judge today ordered Judith Miller of The New York Times to be jailed immediately after she again refused to cooperate with a grand jury investigating the disclosure of the identity of a covert C.I.A. operative.
Matthew Cooper of Time magazine explaining his decision today to testify about his confidential source, thus avoiding jail.
Another reporter who had been facing jail time on the same matter, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine, agreed today to testify to a grand jury about his confidential source on the same matter, thus avoiding jail. Mr. Cooper said he had decided to do so only because his source specifically released him from promises of confidentiality just before today’s hearing.
The judge, Thomas F. Hogan of Federal District Court in Washington, rejected a request by Ms. Miller and her lawyers that she be allowed to serve her detention at home or in Connecticut or elsewhere, and ordered that she be put in custody and taken to a jail in the District of Columbia area until October, or until she changed her mind about testifying.
I have to say, despite what I might think about Judy Miller (see this Slate explainer), she does have balls. Matt Cooper does not.
I will gladly contribute to a Judy Miller fund, just for what she is choosing to stand for.
Bob Novak is a douche.
