I have chosen to resign because over the last few months, I have become the news, something a New York Times reporter never wants to be, |
I heard directly from my source that I should testify before the grand jury, |
I knew and I know I wasn't covering for anybody. |
I recall that Mr. Libby was displeased with what he described as 'selective leaking' by the CIA. He told me that the agency was engaged in a 'hedging strategy' to protect itself in case no weapons were found in Iraq. |
I said I believed the information came from another source, whom I could not recall, |
I served 85 days in jail because of my belief in the importance of upholding the confidential relationship journalists have with their sources, ... Believe me, I did not want to be in jail. |
I served 85 days in jail because of my belief in the importance of upholding the confidential relationship journalists have with their sources, ... Believe me, I did not want to be in jail. But I would have stayed even longer. |
I served 85 days in jail because of my belief in the importance of upholding the confidential relationship that journalists have with their sources. |
I told Mr. Fitzgerald that Mr. Libby might have thought I still had security clearance, given my special embedded status in Iraq. |
I told Mr. Fitzgerald, I simply could not recall where that came from, when I wrote it or why the name was misspelled. |
I was a journalist doing my job, protecting my source until my source freed me to perform my civic duty to testify. |
I was unaware that there was a deliberate, concerted disinformation campaign to discredit Wilson and that if there had been, I did not think I was a target of it. |
I went to jail to preserve the time-honored principle that a journalist must respect a promise not to reveal the identity of a confidential source. The principle was more important to uphold than my personal freedom. |
I'm sure I did many things that were not completely perfect in the eyes of either First Amendment absolutists or those who wrote every day saying, 'Testify, testify, you're covering up for these people, |
I'm waiting to see like everybody else what he produces. But if he doesn't have anything, I will wonder about why I had to spend 85 days in jail. |