Press Release
September 30, 2005
NAHJ Relieved by Miller's Release
Media Contact: Daniela Montalvo (202) 662-7152
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists is relieved to know that jailed New York Times Reporter Judith Miller has been released from prison.
According to press accounts, she was released after she had a telephone conversation with Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis Libby. Miller has agreed to speak with federal investigators about her source that discussed the identity of a CIA covert officer, Valerie Plame.
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has tried to get Miller to reveal her source to a grand jury investigating whether Bush administration officials leaked Plame's identity. Even though Miller never wrote an article about Plame, a federal judge ordered her jailed for refusing to testify about her sources before the grand jury.
NAHJ feels she should never have been sent to jail for upholding her right to protect a source.
Judith Miller spent 85 days in jail.
Founded in 1984, NAHJ's mission is to increase the percentage of Latinos working in our nation's newsrooms and to improve news coverage of the Latino community. NAHJ is the nation's largest professional organization for Latino journalists with more than 2,300 members working in English and Spanish-language print, photo, broadcast and online media.
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