Libby Was Pushed For Waiver

According to The Washington Post "Scooter" Libby the top aide to VP Cheney was "prodded" in a letter leaked to Reuters which shows Prosecutor Fitzgerald "encouraging" Libby for a waiver for Judy Miller allowing her to testify. A top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney got a push from a prosecutor before telling New York Times reporter Judith Miller that he wanted her to testify in a probe into the outing of a CIA operative whose diplomat husband was an Iraq-war critic. ----- Some lawyers in the case called the letter a thinly veiled threat seeking Libby's cooperation, and said it raised questions about whether Libby's waiver was as voluntary as Miller and her lawyers had described. Others said it was not coercive. "Is that pressure? Absolutely," said Richard Sauber, a Washington lawyer who represents Time magazine's Matt Cooper, who has also testified to the grand jury. But he added, "It is not unfair and it is not unduly coercive." Hmmm and now we have reports that Ms. Judy is to meet with Fitzgerald in Washington as I posted here. This causes one to look once again at the reported letter Libby sent to Miller shortly before her release from prison. Was this prose by Libby "turn in clusters, because their roots connect them" supposedly referring to the leaves in Aspen really code? I wonder if it really means witnesses before the GJ have "turned" showing all of them interconnected in some sort of conspiracy. Could he have been actually telling her to co-operate or he and her would both be indicted if she doesn't? It seems to me this would make sense if Fitzgerald is going after the "bigger fish" who are higher in the administration.