Were there two secret agents involved this case - a CIA operative who worked for a dummy oil firm and a Bush operative who worked for the New York Times?
Fitzgerald says that if Miller had testified when she was first called in or about August 2004, he could have announced his indictment of Scooter Libby one year ago - which would have been about two weeks before the presidential election in November.
The indictment would have brought the simmering scandal to a boil, energizing the Left and depressing turnout on the Right which would have undoubtedly tilted the election to the Democrats.
Did Miller know that Libby had lied to the FBI or the grand jury during the leak investigation? Possibly. She could have heard via mutual friends, or she could have parsed it out based on questions investigators were asking her. Her subsequent actions appear almost erratic: She went to jail to protect the secret - and then, after 85 days in the hoosegow, she abruptly changed her mind and spilled the beans.
Was it simply that she got tired of being in jail, or did she abrogate her stated principal of protecting a secret source for some other reason? She has played a significant role in the fortunes of Team Bush: In 2002, she served as a mouthpiece at the New York Times for the White House Iraq Group’s disinformation campaign to market the war. In 2003, when the wheels are coming of the war, she remained silent about a WHIG smear campaign to discredit a critic, knowing that her silence could aid the re-election of the incompetent liars she had abetted.
On the face of it, you could make the case that there were two secret agents involved this case - a CIA agent who nominally worked for the Brewster Jennings oil firm and a Bush operative who nominally worked for the New York Times.
