Judy Miller takes the stand in the Fitz silliness trial of Scooter Libby today, but USA Today has uncovered an important “twist” in yesterday’s testimony from Air Fleischer:

Fleischer testified that on July 11, 2003, he told three reporters — including John Dickerson, who then worked for Time — that Plame worked at the CIA.

But Dickerson, now at Slate, remembers things differently. He says Fleischer didn’t say anything about Plame — only that reporters should look into who sent retired U.S. diplomat Joseph Wilson (Plame’s husband) on a fact-finding trip to Niger.

Is this a big deal? Dickerson wonders if Fleischer’s testimony and his different recollection of events will “get me out of my press seat and into that uncomfortable little witness box.”

He also wonders if it “hurts the prosecution if Ari admitted something he didn’t do, because they’re relying on his memory.”

Somebody in addition to Joe Wilson is lying, it seems. Does anyone trust Dickerson? If Dickerson is correct, then it helps the prosecution for the reason he cites and because it is an example of Val Plame’s name not being used by the WH.

I’d like for Dickerson to have to testify as to what he recalls, preferably after Joe Wilson, who should have testified first so as to have been most thoroughly trashed and refuted.