Originally published October 15 2005
Source of CIA leak revealed after reporter is jailed for 85 days
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Judith Miller finally revealed who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity two years ago. Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, is the source of the controversy.
After 85 days in jail for refusing to name her source, New York Times reporter Judith Miller broke her silence on Friday and appeared before a grand jury investigating whether anyone in the Bush administration illegally leaked a CIA operative's identity.
Miller, who was freed on Thursday, testified about her conversations with a top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, lawyers said.
She said she agreed to testify about the conversations after receiving what she called a "personal, voluntary" waiver of confidentiality from her source.
Miller did not identify that source by name, but lawyers involved in the case said it was Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby.
After obtaining her waiver, Miller said her lawyers secured an agreement with Fitzgerald to narrow the scope of her testimony to her conversations with that single source.
Lawyers close to the case said Miller's testimony appeared to clear the way for prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald to wrap up his two-year-old inquiry into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and whether anyone broke the law in doing so.
Plame's diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, said the administration had leaked her name, damaging her ability to work undercover, to get back at him for criticizing President George W. Bush's Iraq policy.
The lawyers said Fitzgerald could now move quickly to bring indictments in the case, or he could conclude that no crime was committed and end his investigation and possibly issue a report on his findings.
The outcome could shake up the Bush White House, already reeling from criticism over its response to Hurricane Katrina and the indictment of House Republican leader Tom DeLay on a conspiracy charge related to campaign financing.
The White House had long maintained that they had nothing to do with the leak but reporters have since named them as sources.
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