Judith Miller To Blow Wide, Wide Open. Fitzgerald Is Going to Indict Her.

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Patrick Fitzgerald has just staged a prosecutorial coup. He apparently got Judith miller to lie on the stand last Friday, in front of the grand jury. He then called her lawyer, said "Why is your client lying?" -- and now, Judith Miller suddenly admits to having had the June conversations --- earlier conversations with Scooter Libby than she's ever admitted before. It also means she could be tried as a co-conspirator.

Seems that while Miller languished in prison, Fitzgeraled found out somehow that Miller talked to Scooter back in June, earlier than July as she had previously admitted. So, he promised to restrict his questions to her about Scooter Libby only, she got sprung from prison, and testified. Then, he got her to answer questions under oath which indicated she had not spoken to Libby before July. After her testimony, Fitzgerald called her lawyer and asked: "Why did your client lie about the June Meetings?", to which the lawyer and Miller repsonded by suddenly discovering and turning over her notes about that meeting to Fitzgerald. In only a few hours. Now that's fast-faxing.

Now, it's all well and good when the questions put to you in front of a grand jury allow you to keep limited answers. But it's a no-no to commit perjury in front of a grand jury. It makes you look like a co-conspirator.

So, what do you think Fitzgerald will do in this case? I'll tell you: he'll indict her. And she could chose to continue her "I'm a journalist, and will say nothing" pose, or she could turn state's evidence and talk -- not only about Scooter, but about anybody and everybody she spoke to about Joseph Wilson's wife.

Oh, and if Scooter Libby talked to Miller in June about Wilson and Plame? It would demonstrate a long-running attempt to discredit Wilson, rather than the "four days in July, knee-jerk reaction, no-conspiracy-here" claim Scooter and Rove have been claiming.