{"id":126,"date":"2005-11-10T12:29:04","date_gmt":"2005-11-10T20:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/?p=126"},"modified":"2006-09-16T10:26:29","modified_gmt":"2006-09-16T18:26:29","slug":"judith-millers-op-ed-in-the-ny-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/judith-millers-op-ed-in-the-ny-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Judith Miller’s Op Ed in The NY Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

As mentioned yesterday in this blog, Times reporter Judith Miller has been given space to explain herself in the wake of her long-negotiated resignation from the paper.<\/p>\n

In the Op Ed piece<\/a>, she explains her decision to leave the Times after a distingushed 28-year career there.<\/p>\n

She states her 85 days in jail for contempt for refusing to reveal her sources is more than twice as long a any other US journalist. <\/p>\n

She agreed to testify only on the Valerie Plame Wilson matter , and only after Scooter Libby released her from her pledge of confidentiality. Once that was done, she did testify. <\/p>\n

Some on Times felt she never should have testified, even if it meant she would be obstructing a serious investigation and therefore, would have been charged with obstruction of justice, a serious crime in itself.<\/p>\n

The paper in response to the impasse between the court and Ms. Miller has advocated a Federal shield law to allow reporters to protect their sources without facing this level of legal coercion.<\/p>\n

She has website, further discussing these matters, JudithMiller.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As mentioned yesterday in this blog, Times reporter Judith Miller has been given space to explain herself in the wake of her long-negotiated resignation from the paper. In the Op Ed piece, she explains her decision to leave the Times after a distingushed 28-year career there. She states her 85 days in jail for contempt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myadportfolio.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}