Source Says Miller Had His OK in 2004

The source New York Times reporter Judith Miller went to jail to protect says he had given her the go-ahead last year.

But one of Miller’s lawyers says the source, I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, was coerced into signing an agreement.

Miller says she decided to testify before a grand jury investigating the possibly unlawful disclosure of the identity of a CIA officer because of two developments.

One was a long telephone talk with Libby and the other was a deal with the special prosecutor in the case, the Times said Saturday.

Reports surfaced questioning the timing of the decision. Libby says he gave Miller unequivocal permission to testify about her conversations with him in 2004.

But one of Miller’s lawyers, Floyd Abrams, said Libby’s attorney told him the aide had been “coerced and had been required as a condition’ for continued employment at the White House.