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CIA leak case reporter freed, to testify

Judith Miller

NEW YORK: New York Times reporter Judith Miller, jailed since July 6 for refusing to testify in the CIA leak case, has been released after agreeing to testify before a grand jury investigating the case, the newspaper has announced. Ms. Miller was freed from a Virginia detention centre after spending more than 12 weeks in jail, during which she refused to cooperate with the inquiry. Her decision to testify was made after she had obtained what she described as a waiver offered ``voluntarily and personally'' by a source who said she was no longer bound by any pledge of confidentiality. ``My source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations,'' she said in a statement. That source was I. Lewis Libby, Vice-President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, the paper said quoting people who have been officially briefed on the case. Ms. Miller met Mr. Libby on July 8, 2003, and talked with him by telephone later that week, they said. Discussions between officials and journalists that week that may have disclosed the identity of a CIA operative, Valerie Wilson, have been a central focus of the probe. — PTI

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