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To: combjelly who wrote (253588)	10/3/2005 7:48:30 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1570604

The 85 days in jail was never about protecting Libby as a source, it was about protecting Judy Miller from other questions under oath. Times reporter tried to cut earlier CIA leak deal Sun Oct 2, 2005 7:13 PM ET By Adam Entous WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller tried a year ago to make a deal with the prosecutor investigating the leak of a CIA operative's identity but the prosecutor would not agree then to limit her testimony to Vice President Dick Cheney's top aide, her lawyer said on Sunday. Some lawyers involved in the case said prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald's decision to reject the deal a year ago -- only to agree last week to limit the scope of Miller's testimony to the subject of Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby -- suggested Libby may have become increasingly important to wrapping up Fitzgerald's case. After spending 85 days in jail for refusing to name Libby as her source, Miller testified before the grand jury on Friday about two conversations she had with him in July 2003. Lawyers said her testimony should clear the way for Fitzgerald later this month to conclude his 2-year-old inquiry into who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity and whether anyone broke the law in doing so, lawyers say. Fitzgerald had indicated he could wrap up his investigation once he obtained Miller's cooperation. The grand jury considering the case is scheduled to expire on October 28. Floyd Abrams, one of Miller's lawyers, told CNN: "I tried to get a deal a year ago." But Abrams said that when he spoke to Fitzgerald about it at the time, he would not agree to limit his questions "to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby." Fitzgerald's spokesman was not immediately available to comment on Abrams' account of the offer. One lawyer involved in the case said Fitzgerald's change of mind "suggests that he doesn't think he needs to hear about anybody else" but Libby. Fitzgerald could bring indictments in the case or he could conclude no crime was committed and end his investigation. Lawyers involved in the case said he could signal his intentions as early as this week. In addition to Libby, Fitzgerald's investigation has ensnarled President George W. Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove. The White House had long maintained that Rove and Libby had nothing to do with the leak but reporters have since named them as sources. Plame's diplomat husband, Joseph Wilson, has said the administration leaked her name, damaging her ability to work undercover, in order to get back at him for criticizing Bush's Iraq policy. Recriminations have broken out between lawyers over why Miller had not accepted a waiver sooner. She was sent to jail on July 6 although she never wrote an article about the Plame matter. "While Judy Miller sat in jail for 85 days and Mr. Libby knew that she was doing it to protect him, no call came in from him, no letter arrived from him," Abrams said on CNN. Abrams said he spoke to Libby's attorney, Joseph Tate, before Miller went to jail. "It is true that he said to me it's OK with him (Libby) if she testifies," Abrams said. But he added: "It's also true that, in the same conversation, he said to me that the waiver (which Tate said gave Miller his consent for her to testify) that he had signed was by its nature coerced. How could it not be, he said. That's a waiver the government forces him to sign in order to stay on in the government. Otherwise he'd be fired." Tate disputes Abrams' account of that conversation. In a September 16, 2005, letter, Tate said he told Miller's attorney more than a year ago that Libby's waiver of confidentiality was "voluntary and not coerced." Tate said he believed Miller's goal in refusing to accept that waiver was to protect other sources. Abrams said: "She has other sources and was very concerned about the possibility of having to reveal those sources or going back to jail because of them." That appears to conflict with comments by attorney Robert Bennett, who also represents Miller in the case. Bennett said on Friday that "Judy is not protecting anybody else." Viewed by some as a martyr for press freedom, Miller has faced criticism for some of her prewar news reports on Iraq's alleged weapons programs. Critics say those reports helped boost the administration's case that Iraq posed a threat. No weapons of mass destruction were found.

To: combjelly who wrote (253588)	10/4/2005 4:03:05 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Respond to of 1570604

Re: " I didn't know that Canada too was a pool of "cheap labor" Compared to the US it is. Ok, not as much as Mexico, but still cheaper. In general, for equivalent jobs, jobs in Canada pay roughly the same number of dollars as jobs in the US. But the Canadian dollar is worth less than an American dollar. You missed the demographic factor. It's said that about one million illegals() cross the Rio Grande every year to work in the US... Well, if there were a similar migratory flow from Canada to the US it'd take about 25 years to depopulate Canada completely.... Gus () Illegal migration had been declining along the U.S.-Mexico border since 2000. U.S. border patrol figures show detentions dropped from 1.6 million in 2000 to 905,000 in the fiscal year that ended last Sept. 30. There is no exact data on the number of people crossing illegally. But in an indication of increased traffic, 535,000 illegal migrants were arrested along the U.S.-Mexico border from Oct. 1 to March 31, said Gloria Chavez of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bureau. In the same period, the border patrol's Tucson sector detained 70,000 more people, an increase of 49 percent. © Associated Press 2005 idsnews.com