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Why was former jailbird Judith Miller yukking it up earlier this week with “Fox and Friends” – defending the Harry Potter leaker, no less – and beaming this Tuesday on “Hardball” as she discussed terror risks?

You would be feeling fine, too, if you found out you were going to be portrayed by Kate Beckinsale on the big screen.

Yep, that’s right. The “Pearl Harbor” beauty and “Evolution” buttkicker is coming to DC. According to Variety, a new movie is ramping up with a very familiar plot.

Rod Lurie will next direct his script "Nothing but the Truth," a drama about a D.C.-based female newspaper reporter who outs a CIA agent and is imprisoned for refusing to reveal her source.

Cast is mobilizing for an October production start. Talks are under way for Kate Beckinsale to play the journalist, Matt Dillon the prosecutor, Vera Farmiga the CIA agent, Edie Falco (in her first role since "The Sopranos") the editor of the newspaper that published the story and Alan Alda the attorney who tries to free the reporter from jail.

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Aside from its appeal at face value, Friday’s indictment of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, retains the attention of the media at least to some degree because of the implications it might have on reporters themselves. Saturday’s New York Times broached the subject in an article that hinged upon criticism of Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald’s “pitting three prominent journalists against their former source, a strategy that experts in law and journalism say has rarely been used or tested.” The piece prompted a slew of reaction from the blogosphere and beyond about the fallout for reporters in the face of Libby’s impending public trial. From the article:

It is all but unheard of for reporters to turn publicly on their sources or for prosecutors to succeed in conscripting members of a profession that prizes its independence.

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The blogosphere (at least the part of it intrigued by media and politics) was holding its collective breath today waiting for Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald’s announcement on possible indictments related to the CIA leak case. Some were wary of the early media reports of the news that vice presidential adviser I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby was expected to be indicted and Karl Rove was not, but would remain “under investigation” by the special counsel.



Once the official news broke that Libby was indicted on charges of obstruction of justice, making a false statement and perjury, and had submitted his resignation, TVNewser kept track of the networks’ coverage and other blogs began to weigh in before, during and after Fitzgerald’s news conference.

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Tip-o-the-hat for this find by Michael Petrelis, from Annie Sweeney and Lisa Donovan of the Chicago Sun-Times:

“Bridgeview used car salesman Muhammad Salah recalls being beaten, housed in a "refrigerator cell" and threatened with rape by Israeli soldiers until he admitted to bankrolling overseas terrorists, according to a new filing in U.S. District Court.


In an odd twist, the interrogation was witnessed by embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller, and defense attorneys suggested Monday the best way for the U.S. government to prove its case -- and prove Salah wasn't abused -- is to call the controversial journalist to the witness stand.”

More:

“A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who subpoenaed Miller to testify in the leak of a CIA agent's name and whose office is prosecuting Salah, declined to comment on whether Miller might be called to testify in the case.”

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