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'New York Times' Reporter Jailed in Plame Case Freed

New York Times reporter Judith Miller, jailed for refusing to reveal her sources, has been released. She has agreed to testify before a grand jury investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press.

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David Folkenflik was described by Geraldo Rivera of Fox News as "a really weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty-palmed reporter." Others have been kinder. The Columbia Journalism Review, for example, once gave him a "laurel" for reporting that immediately led the U.S. military to institute safety measures for journalists in Baghdad.