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CIA leak grand jury to hear Miller againNew York Times reporter turns over more notes to special prosecutorFrom Kevin Bohn  Judith Miller RELATEDYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSWASHINGTON (CNN) -- New York Times reporter Judith Miller will make a second appearance Wednesday before a federal grand jury investigating the 2003 disclosure of a CIA agent's identity, a representative of the newspaper said. The new testimony from Miller, who never wrote an article on the subject but did report on it, comes the same week that President Bush's top political adviser, Karl Rove, is expected to make his fourth appearance before the grand jury. Knowingly identifying a covert agent is a felony under federal law, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Miller met Tuesday with Patrick Fitzgerald, the special prosecutor investigating the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. Miller, who spent 85 days in jail for contempt after refusing a grand jury subpoena, testified two weeks ago after receiving what she and her attorneys called a personal waiver allowing her to talk about her source. That source was Vice President Dick Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, his lawyer said. In Tuesday's meeting, she handed over and discussed notes from June 2003 that concerned conversations she had with Libby, the New York Times representative told CNN. Fitzgerald agreed to limit questioning to dealings with Libby and the notes she had turned over, sources familiar with the investigation have told CNN. Miller and her attorneys have refused to comment on the interview with the prosecutor, and a source close to the investigation refused to describe the notes in more detail. Miller was released from jail September 29, after Libby agreed to release her from her pledge of confidentiality, and she made her first grand jury appearance the following day. The grand jury has been meeting for almost two years investigating the leak. Fitzgerald is trying to determine whether any crimes were committed when Plame's identity as a CIA operative was exposed in a July 2003 piece by syndicated columnist Robert Novak. The column ran a week after Plame's husband, former U.S. ambassador Joseph Wilson, published an opinion piece in The New York Times that cast doubt on a key assertion in the Bush administration's arguments for war with Iraq -- that Iraq had sought to purchase uranium for a suspected nuclear weapons program from Africa. Wilson, a former U.S. ambassador to Iraq, has alleged that his wife's name was leaked to retaliate against him. Novak, a longtime CNN contributor, cited two "senior administration officials" for the disclosure in his July 14, 2003, column. He has refused to say publicly who his sources were, and what cooperation he may have given Fitzgerald, if any, remains unclear. The notes Miller handed over to Fitzgerald Tuesday concerned conversations with Libby that occurred the month before Wilson's column ran in the New York Times on July 6, 2003. Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin, said Monday his client "did not circulate" the name of an undercover CIA operative. "Karl has truthfully told everyone who's asked him that he did not circulate Valerie Plame's name to punish her husband, Joe Wilson," Luskin said. Asked if that included Bush, Luskin said, "Everyone is everyone." Another reporter, Time magazine correspondent Matthew Cooper, testified before the grand jury in July, saying he had received a specific and voluntary waiver from Rove. Cooper said in July that Rove told him Wilson's wife worked for the CIA but did not say her name. Cooper said also that Libby confirmed that piece of information. White House press secretary Scott McClellan denied in 2003 that either Rove or Libby had been involved in the leak, dismissing a reporter's question about Rove as "ridiculous." More recently, he has refused to answer repeated questions on the matter. 
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