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 NEW YORK (AP) - Judith Miller, the recently jailed and much-criticized reporter who left The New York Times, says she plans to keep lobbying for a federal shield law that protects journalists from revealing their sources.
Miller spent 85 days in jail for defying court orders in a CIA leak probe, refusing to testify about conversations with a confidential source. She retired from the Times on Wednesday, declaring that she had to leave because she had "become the news."
Her departure from the Times, as part of a severance deal, ends a stormy relationship between her and the paper. That relationship worsened dramatically in recent weeks as Times editors and columnists assailed her publicly for her actions in a CIA leak case and for her reporting on weapons of mass destruction in the run-up to the Iraq war.
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