Judy’s Out of Jail

After getting permission to testify from her source, Times reporter Judith Miller is finally out of prison after 86 days. This reporter spent three months defending her right to have anonymous sources. She will appear before a grand jury today. Her source was Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney’s chief of staff.

In case you haven’t been paying attention to the biggest scandal to hit the Bush administration, Miller was jailed in July when she refused to testify about her source for news stories about “Plamegate.” Time Mag rolled over on their source, getting Cooper off the hook. The magazine was highly criticized and many say they will have a heard time getting insider stories after this. Miller however, went to prison.

Until this past summer, President Bush said leakers in the Plame probe would be fired. But in July after it was revealed that top aide Karl Rove and Libby had been involved in the leaks, Bush said “if someone committed a crime,” he would be fired. So far the President has not followed through on his promise, and Rove still roams the White House, probably looking for ways to resurrect Bush’s standing in the polls. What will Miller say to the Grand Jury about who leaked Valerie Plame’s name to her? Stay tuned, kids. This could get real good.

Here’s the CNN story.