According to
Reuters, Scooter Libby was pressured by Fitzgerald into renewing his waiver of confidentiality. This means that the second waiver was not as uncoerced as Miller was saying. It also puts Libby's line about the aspens all turning together in a new light. Was he saying to her, "I've turned, and you should as well" ?
Quotes from Reuters in the extended entry.
Miller maintains she only agreed to testify -- after spending 85 days in jail -- because she received what she describes as a personal and voluntary waiver of confidentiality from her source. She dismissed an earlier waiver by Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis Libby, as coerced.
But Libby offered a new waiver that Miller accepted after he received a September 12 letter in which the prosecutor, investigating a possible White House role in the leak, repeatedly encouraged him to do just that.
"I would welcome such a communication reaffirming Mr. Libby's waiver," prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald told Libby's lawyer, Joseph Tate.
"It would be viewed as cooperation with the investigation," Fitzgerald said.