Ms. Miller was freed after spending more than 12 weeks in jail, during which she refused to cooperate with the inquiry. Her decision to testify was made after she had obtained what she described as a waiver offered "voluntarily and personally" by a source who said she was no longer bound by any pledge of confidentiality she had made to him. Ms. Miller said the source had made clear that he genuinely wanted her to testify.
That source was I. Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, according to people who have been officially briefed on the case.


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"Believe me, I did not want to be in jail," she told reporters in front of the federal courthouse here, a day after she was released from a Virginia detention center after she and her lawyers reached an agreement with a federal prosecutor.
The pillars of that agreement, she said, were an assurance from a news source that she could testify without violating his confidence, plus a promise from the federal prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, that her testimony to the grand jury would be limited in scope.


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I am hopeful that my very long stay in jail will serve to strengthen the bond between reporters and their sources. I hope that blanket waivers are a thing of the past. They do not count. They are not voluntary and they should not be accepted by journalists.
I am also hopeful that my time in jail will help pass a federal shield law so that the public's right to know can be protected.


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