If the parties were reversed, you'd be hailing her as a hero.

Its getting tired, J. Scott. Ad hominem attacks haven't been your style until lately. This is just a pot shot. You have no evidence to support it.

That's really harsh cricism for someone who spent a couple months in jail on principle when she didn't have to.

But did she really spend time in jail to protect the confidentiality of a source (or, in the bigger picture, to protect the integrity of journalism), or was her true motive to rehabilitate her reputation that took a terrible beating for her WMD "news" stories?

Miller forgot the bedrock principle of confidentiality: it is for the source's protection, not the reporter's. By all accounts, Miller's source relieved her long ago of her obligation to protect his confidentiality. So why did she go to such lengths to protect him? I don't buy the explanation that Libby was coerced by Fitzgerald to waive his confidentiality, and thus Miller felt she still had to protect him. Nor do I buy the explanation that by refusing to name Libby as a source she was protecting other confidential sources from being revealed. I can't help but conclude that the main reason she went to jail was for a sort of self aggrandizement. It takes a healthy ego to be a martyr. And she'll really rake in the bucks now. There will be a book deal and probably crappy made-for-TV movie rights.

I would honor Miller if the principles she claimed she was standing for really applied. But they didn't in this case. And it's a crying shame, because now that the truth is being revealed, we can't help but draw the conclusion that Patrick Fitzgerald was right and justified all along. And that is tragic in the long run for journalism, and we are all the worse for it, Republican or Democrat.

There was a great part of me that wanted to root for a reporter who was willing to tell a U.S. Attorney to go to hell. But Miller is no Joe Welch.

And by the way, J. Scott, your attack doesn't make any sense. Are you suggesting that if a conservative reporter working for a conservative newspaper was refusing to name a liberal source despite pressure from a liberal prosecutor appointed by a liberal president that I would champion the reporter? I don't get it. The political beliefs of the players in this case are irrelevant.

I much prefer when you make thoughtful criticisms rather than knee-jerk reactionary attacks. Besides, you don't know enough about me to make such an attack. I'm a prosecutor. And in a short career I've put more people in prison than Patrick Fitzgerald - just not the big fish that he's wrangled. So I'm not exactly the bleeding heart you might imagine.

I have some examples, they're not reporters actually but they went to jail to protect a Democratic administration. But...since it's also tiring to say "they did it to", I'll have to say I agree that she, Miller, merits most of the criticism you're leveling at her and leave it at that.

An interesting point from Kondracke, he insists that rather than be known as THE reporter who bought Chalibi's tale, hook, line and sinker, she wants to be known as the reporter who was jailed for 85 days for "standing on principle". Think she might be trying to make up for her bad reporting? Just a thought.

Another reporter said that she was standing on principle but probably got tired of the prison food.