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Miller Spends Day in Jail over CIA Leak Case

Judith Miller of The New York Times is now in an Alexandria, Va., jail. She was sent there Thursday for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating the possible leak by senior administration officials outing the name of a covert CIA agent.

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