Judith Miller - The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail?
March 18, 2005 in Auditorium WHEELERSpeaker:Judith Miller
reporter Judith Miller faces up to 18 months of jail time for "contempt of court" after refusing to reveal her sources in the probe of who leaked CIA operative Valerie Plame's name to the press. In this event for the Graduate School of Journalism, she will discuss "The Consequences of Confidential Sources: Jail" in conversation with Lowell Bergman, an adjunct professor at the Graduate School.
Miller is an author and Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who focuses on national security issues, with special emphasis on terrorism, the Middle East and weapons of mass destruction. Bergman is one of the founding members of the Center for Investigative Reporting. He spent 16 years as a producer with CBS's 60 Minutes; the story of his investigation of the tobacco industry for 60 Minutes was chronicled in the feature film "The Insider." He graduated from the University of Wisconsin and did graduate work at UC San Diego.
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