The Journal (sub.req.) got Miller on the phone Sunday, briefly …
Despite giving a lengthy first-person account, Ms. Miller left some pivotal questions unanswered. For instance, she didn’t disclose whether she was asked by Mr. Fitzgerald in her first grand-jury appearance about meeting with Mr. Libby in June 2003. Her failure to disclose that meeting led to her second testimony before the grand jury after some of her notes were found. But neither her account nor the Times story discusses how the notes were found and what set off a search for them.
In a brief telephone interview yesterday, Ms. Miller said she discovered the June 2003 notes in her office after being prompted to seek out answers to another question Mr. Fitzgerald had asked her. “There was an open question about something, and I said I would go back and look and see if there was anything in my notes that would address that question,” she said yesterday.
She said she found the notebook in her office. She reiterated that she couldn’t recall who told her the name that she transcribed as “Valerie Flame.” “I don’t remember who told me the name,” she said, growing agitated. “I wasn’t writing a story, remember?” Asked if the other source was Mr. Rove, she replied, “I’m not going to discuss anyone else that I talked to.”
When did she know she wasn’t writing a story exactly?
