Judith Miller, the former reporter from The New York Times that was jailed for 85 days while trying to protect her sources and possibly herself, testified with details about her confidential interviews with Scooter Libby, Vice President Cheney's staffer.
She refused initially to testify, she was jailed by the special prosecutor and finally testified after indicating that Libby had released her from her confidentiality vow.
This week she calmly recounted Libby's revelation that Valerie Wilson was a CIA operative and also known as Valerie Plame. She detailed that Libby was very upset with the CIA for an on going war of leaks against the administration allowing the CIA to back pedal from its earlier evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He reportedly made the association between Plame and Joseph Wilson, Plame's husband.
Ultimately, this would seem to pin down Libby with the knowledge of Plame's role as a CIA agent, and now the government will have to prove when Libby learned about this information and possibly the source.
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