The WashPost’s Dan Froomkin has a question:

So what was Miller doing in jail? Was it all just a misunderstanding? The most charitable explanation for Miller is that she somehow concluded that Libby wanted her to keep quiet, even while he was publicly — and privately — saying otherwise. The least charitable explanation is that going to jail was Miller’s way of transforming herself from a journalistic outcast (based on her gullible pre-war reporting) into a much-celebrated hero of press freedom.

Think so, Dan? Really?

Karl Rove had said she could talk. Wasn’t him. Scooter Libby had said she could talk, but he evidently did not do so with sugar on top.

Judith Miller wants to be hip with her colleagues. So does everyone else with theirs, right? Well, this didn’t sell the goods Froomkin, bute’s not a reporter/journalist anyway. I doubt she’s convinced Jeff Gannon/Guckert either, but he’s no more a reporter/journalist than is Froomkin.

Me? I’m not a journalist/reporter. If Scooter Libby had told me that Valerie Plame worked for the CIA, I’d go to jail rather than tell a grand jury. That’s not a journalist/reporter thaang with me; rather, it’s a question of my word, my honor.

Would I take a bullet for the blogosophere, putting on a show by going to prison even if Libby had told me I could talk? No.

I also count on the rule of law.

Judy?