Judy Miller claims ignorance as to why Libby left her in jail all this time and she claims that Libby being her source was an "open secret" in this new
Times article:
In the interview, she declined to reveal what she had told the grand jury. She also said she had publicly identified Mr. Libby as her source in part because Mr. Tate, Mr. Libby's lawyer, had told Newsweek that he doubted the credibility of one of her lawyers, Floyd Abrams. Moreover, she said, it was an open secret that Mr. Libby was her source, so there was no point in not naming him.
Ms. Miller said her lawyers reopened negotiations not because she wanted to leave jail, although she did, but because if Mr. Fitzgerald extended the grand jury, everyone would dig deeper into their positions and she would have a more difficult time getting what she considered a voluntary waiver from Mr. Libby.
I think it is notable that she basically calls Libby a lilly-livered coward for letting her rot in jail (she lost 20 pounds due to his cowardice):
Journalists should be given the benefit of the doubt when it involves 1st Amendment issues and whistleblower issues. This is why I said Kossacks should hold their fire on her in regards to why she went to jail, despite her WMD idiocy:
"I'm sure I did many things that were not completely perfect in the eyes of either First Amendment absolutists or those who wrote every day saying 'Testify, testify, you're covering up for these people,' " Ms. Miller told a gathering of her colleagues in the newsroom. "The pressures were enormous. I did the only thing I could do. I followed my conscience, and I tried to follow the principles that I laid out at the beginning."
Libby the Lilly-livered coward (in so many words):
"I was prepared to stay," she said. "I had been in jail, and I thought maybe Scooter Libby was thinking about that and that he might be prepared to do something that, for whatever reason, he didn't feel comfortable doing before."
Ms. Miller said her cooperation with the investigation, including testifying and turning over her notes, had not compromised the future ability of reporters to protect the confidentiality of their sources.
"Quite the contrary," she said. "I set up clear standards for when I would cooperate, and they were known to everyone."
Also she claims that she will reveal all either in an article or a book (?!). Many questions remain about Judy Miller.