NY Times reporter refuses to testify to grand jury
Posted on: Wednesday, 6 July 2005, 14:06 CDT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller refused on Wednesday to reveal her sources to a grand jury investigating the leak of a covert CIA operative's name but Time correspondent Matthew Cooper agreed to testify.
Miller said she did not want to go to jail but had no choice but to protect her sources.
"If journalists cannot be trusted to keep confidences, then journalists cannot function and there cannot be a free press," she said.
Cooper, who has refused in the past to name his sources in highly charged journalism case, told Chief U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan that he had received "expressed personal consent" to reveal his identity.
"Consequently I am prepared to testify," he told the judge. Time had said last week it would give up Cooper's notes that it held.
The investigation by special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald, a Justice Department prosecutor, seeks to determine who in the Bush administration leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame in 2003 to the media and whether any laws were violated.
Her name was leaked, her diplomat husband charged, because of his criticism of the Bush administration's handling of the Iraq war.
Source: REUTERS
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