(2005-11-10) — Reporter Judi Miller was released from The New York Times yesterday on her own recognizance after she received assurances from former vice presidential chief of staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby that he approved of her departure.
Ms. Miller, in a letter that appears in today’s edition, called The Times “the second correctional institution from which I’ve been freed in as many months-although I suppose there’s more correction going on in that D.C. jail than at The Times.”
The Pulitzer Prize-winning veteran journalist and free-speech icon recently spent 85 days in a Washington D.C. jail before Mr. Libby told her she could leave that facility.
Despite the isolation from civilization she endured during her 28-year term at the newspaper, she said she had remained in her cubicle as a “matter of principle.”
A spokesman for Mr. Libby said the indicted former top aide to the Vice President wrote a letter to Ms. Miller last week noting, “It’s almost winter now. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will soon look dead as newspapers. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them.”
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