Jailed reporter reaches deal in CIA leak probe

This is from CNN.Com:

(CNN) -- A New York Times reporter was released from jail Thursday after agreeing to provide evidence to a federal grand jury investigating the leak of a CIA operative's name.

Judith Miller will appear before the grand jury Friday after spending 12 weeks behind bars protecting a confidential source, whom she said has cleared her to testify.

Miller said her attorneys reached an agreement with prosecutors on the scope of her testimony that "satisfied my obligation as a reporter to keep faith with my sources."

"It's good to be free," Miller said in a statement. "I am leaving jail today because my source has now voluntarily and personally released me from my promise of confidentiality regarding our conversations."

She did not identify the source.

So the big question now is, who will Judith Miller name in her grand jury testimony on Friday? From the way this thing's playing out, you can almost guess that Miller probably told Cheney's chief of staff Scooter Libby, and then Libby told Karl Rove. After that, Rove went on a smear campaign to destroy Ambassador Joe Wilson's name. If Judith Miller does name Scooter Libby as the source, and if Libby did tell Rove about Valerie Plame, then both Libby and Rove would have committed a felony by lying to federal investigators. This is all off-the-wall speculation, but I do have a feeling we're going to see indictments handed down against the presidents men.

Which brings me to my next little comment. I've been watching with detached fascination, the corruption and scandals that are slamming against both the Bush White House and the Republicans in Congress. We have the FEMA fiasco, where the Bush White House placed their cronies into top government positions without any experience in disaster response. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (And possible 2008 presidential candidate) is in hot water for insider trading allegations. And House Majority Leader Tom Delay has stepped down after being indicted for laundering illegal political campaign contributions. Now Judith Miller is going to reveal her source in the Valerie Plame investigation, with a lot of suspicion being directed at the White House. I never thought it possible that the Republican Party could make such a mess of this country in five years. I never expected that the Republican Party could become this hypocritical, this blatant in their lying, and this mean in their extremist ideology. How did we Americans even allow this to happen?