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The Daily Sentinel Thursday, July 7, 2005 7A TIMES: Miller could be jailed until grand jury ends its work Secret sources and the leaked identity of a CIA operative A federal judge on Wednesday ordered New York Times reporter Judith Miller administration's leak of an undercover CIA operative name Time Magazine's jailed for refusing to divulge her source to a grand jury investigating the Bush Matthew Cooper, the other reporter facing jail time, agreed to testify February 2002: Bush July 6. In a July 14: Wil- May 21, 2004; Agrand Aug. 9: U.S. District Sept 13: According to June 27: administration asked New York son's wife, Vale- jury subpoenaed Coo- Judge Thomas Hogan court documents, the The Su- former Ambassador Jo- Times op-ed nePlame, was per and Time seek- rejected claims that the grand jury issued a further preme seph Wilson to travel to piece, Wilson identified as a ing testimony and doc- First Amendment protect- subpoena to Cooper seek- Court re- Niger to determine if the wrote that he CIA operative in uments related to the ed Cooper from testifying mg additional information fused to country sold uranium to could not verify a column by two articles. Time said and found him contempt relating to the case Coo- intervene.

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preme Court their conversations October, rejecting their argument that the First Amendment shielded them from revealing their sources. Last month the Supreme Court refused to intervene. The use of anonymous sources has long been debated. News organizations say they seek to balance a need to promise confidentiality to elicit key information against a desire to be open about their sources to readers, viewers and listeners. The Miller-Cooper case has been seen as a test of press freedom, and numerous media groups have lined up behind the reporters.

Thirty-one states and the District of Columbia have shield laws protecting reporters from having to identify their confidential sources, though there is no federal protection. Congress is considering a bill, however; and Cooper and others involved in the case have urged passage. Unless she decides to talk, Miller will be jailed until the grand jury ends its work in October. Hogan speculated Millers confinement might cause her -source to give her a more specific waiver of confidentiality, as Coopers source had. The judge did not say where she would be incarcerated, but she was seen entering the Alexandria Detention Center.

The sion to do so hours earlier. Coopers about-face, coming after nearly two years of refusals to disclose the information, spared him the likelihood of jail. I do not view myself as above the law, Miller told Hogan. "You are right to send me to prison. But she said she had an obligation to protect a confidential source: 1 do not make confidentiality pledges lightly, but when I do I must honor them.

Hogan was adamant that Miller comply with the courts order to testify. If she was given a pass on this, the next person who comes up might refuse to cooperate as well, Hogan said. There is still a realistic possibility that confinement might cause her to testify. Cooper said his source had given him a waiver just before the court session, enabling the journalist to cooperate with the probe into who leaked the name of CIA officer Valerie Flame. Cooper said that he had been prepared to go to jail and that on Tuesday night, I hugged my son goodbye and told him it might be a long time before I see him again.

Hogan held the reporters in civil contempt of court in AP If somebody broke the law to get back at Mr. Wilson, every eyewitness should come forward to testify, Fitzgerald told Hogan. The grand jury wants to know the truth. We are having the whole thing derailed by one person. Pointing to broader implications, Fitzgerald said that "we cant have 50,000 journalists making their own decisions about whether to reveal sources.

After Hogan passed judgment. Miller stood up, hugged her lawyers and was escorted from the courtroom, touching Cooper on the hand as she passed by has testified before the grand jury or has been subpoenaed. Coopers story mentioning Plames name appeared after Novaks column. Miller did some reporting, but never wrote a story. Among the witnesses Fitzgeralds investigators have questioned are Bush; Vice President Dick Cheney; Bush political adviser Karl Rove; Cheneys chief of staff, Lewis Libby, and former White House counsel Alberto Gonzales, who is now the attorney general.

Fitzgerald has said his probe is finished except for hearing from Miller and Cooper. questioned part of President Bushs justification for invading Iraq. Wilson was sent to Africa by the Bush administration to investigate an intelligence claim that Saddam Hussein may have purchased yellowcake uranium from Niger in the late 1990s for use in nuclear weapons. Wilson said he could not verify the claim and accused the administration of manipulating the intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat. Novak, whose column cited as sources two unidentified senior Bush administration officials, has refused to say whether he Virginia facilitys best-known resident is convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui.

Special counsel Patrick Fitzgerald is investigating the question of who leaked the identity of CIA officer Plame. Disclosure of an undercover intelligence officers identity can be a federal crime if prosecutors can show the leak was intentional and the person -who released that information knew of the officers secret status. Plames name was disclosed in a column by Robert Novak days after her husband, former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, TIES: Wednesdays meeting was no news flash Continued from Page One Sometimes a bill that sounds good for 80 percent of the population can cause problems in the rural areas, Isgar said. Cory Gardner, a Yuma Republican newly appointed to fill Rep. Greg Brophys seat in the House, suggested alleviating the higher costs of medical coverage for rural residents by structuring a mortgage that includes a loan on five years of medical benefits.

Stretching the cost over 30 years could make health insurance more affordable for people in smaller communities, he said. Concerns about water inevitably crept into Wednesdays discussion, as rural lawmakers argued that rural communities cant attract new business without water. The interim committee heads to Grand Junction in September to hold a hearing in conjunction with Club 20s fall conference. after high school, he said. Lawmakers heard from health care advocates who described limited health care options in remote areas and tried to debunk city folk thinking that every county boasts a hospital Residents in 20 Colorado counties must cross county lines to visit a hospital.

Rural residents with limited health care options are often the first to feel the costly brunt of changes lawmakers make in health care policy, Brown said. Urban legislators need to take into account the potential consequences of health care legislation which targets metropolitan consumers but has unintended cost-shift impacts on rural communities, Brown said. Sen. Jim Isgar, D-Hesperus, agreed legislators dont always weigh the impact on remote areas of the state when they consider health care legislation. interim committee tasked with looking at rural economic devel- opment between now and January.

The Brighton Democrat, born and raised in a rural eastern Colorado community, said she wanted to better acquaint her colleagues with issues facing the states far flung, sparsely populated communities. For rural lawmakers, Wednesdays meeting was no news flash. We are very aware of the problems that rural Colorado faces, said Rep. Ray Rose, R-Montrose. The hearing served to bring legislators with more urban constituencies up to speed on problems unique to rural Colorado, Rose said.

Among those concerns are ensuring the children of rural families access to nearby affordable educational opportunities Authorities think sex offender responsible for three deaths at Groene residence people to demand action from their elected officials. People need to get on their congressmen, their senators and even the president. This needs to change, now, he said. Groene had a new tattoo on his upper left arm marking the death of his older son in the mid-May attack; In loving memory, Slade Vincent, 13. Duncan has been charged only with kidnapping, which can carry the death penalty or life in prison.

Wednesday was the first time authorities have said they believe he is also responsible for the three deaths. Human remains found in western Montana, believed to be the boy, will probably not be conclusively identified until next week, Wolfinger said. The bodies of Shastas mother, older brother and mothers boyfriend were found May 16, bound and bludgeoned at the home outside Coeur dAlene, and authorities have said they believe her '9-year-old brother, Dylan, also is dead. Their father, Steve Groene, held a news conference Wednesday in which he said Shasta, who remains hospitalized at the Kootenai Medical Center here, is doing well. Thats certainly more than we could have hoped for.

Shes very upbeat, seems to be pretty healthy, and shes really glad to be home, Groene said. Groene also expressed frustration that Duncan was allowed to be free despite his sex crimes record, and he urged By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS COEUR DALENE, Idaho-A convicted sex offender accused of kidnapping 8-year-old Shasta Groene and her brother is also believed to be responsible for the May killings of three people at the familys home, authorities said Wednesday. When we get the pieces together, well find out what the motive is, Kootenai County Sheriffs Capt. Ben Wolflnger said at a news conference. Joseph Edward Duncan HI, 42, of Fargo, N.D., a fugitive from an earlier child molestation charge, was arrested Saturday at a Dennys restaurant with Shasta, believed to be the sole survivor of the attack and its aftermath.

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