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Topic: Memos Sent to Romenesko
Date/Time: 10/11/2005 6:46:24 PM
Title: NYT executive editor Keller on Miller case
Posted By: Jim Romenesko
 
To: [New York Times newsroom]
From: Bill Keller
Subject: Judy Miller Update

To the Staff:

Judy met this afternoon with the special counsel to hand over additional notes and answer questions. She is to return to the grand jury Wednesday to supplement her earlier testimony. We'll be reporting this in the paper, of course. It means that for a couple more days she remains under a contempt-of-court order, and is not yet clear of legal jeopardy.

As we've told readers, once her obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, we intend to write the most thorough story we can of her entanglement with the White House leak investigation. It's a complicated story involving a large cast, and it has required a meticulous reporting effort -- in part to chase down and debunk some of the myths kicked up by the rumor mill.

Judy has talked to our reporters already about her legal battle, but the story is incomplete until we know as much as we can about the substance of her evidence, and she is under legal advice not to discuss that until her testimony is completed. This may be frustrating to our armchair critics, and it is frustrating to all of us, but it is not unusual even for this investigation. Matt Cooper of Time wrote about his conversation with his source, Karl Rove, only after his cooperation with the special counsel was completed and the contempt citation had been vacated. Other reporters who have testified -- Walter Pincus, Glenn Kessler and, of course, Robert Novak -- have not disclosed the details of their grand jury testimony to this day.

To be continued...

Bill

[AN ADDENDUM]


From: Bill Keller/NYT/NYTIM
To: [New York Times newsroom]
Subject: Judy Miller Update/ Correction

Folks,

I erred in including Glenn Kessler among the reporters who have not disclosed the substance of their grand jury testimony in the leak case. The Post reported that he had told the jury he did not discuss the Wilson episode with his source. Best, Bill

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