8 redacted pages

* billmon wonders why fitz sent judy (and nearly, cooper) to the bighouse:

"When Fitzgerald went to court to compel Judy Miller and Matt Cooper to appear before the grand jury, he argued that their testimony was essential -- not helpful, but essential -- to his investigation. And every judge who looked at the special prosecutor's evidence in camera agreed, wholeheartedly.

Yet, looking at the charges actually brought in Scooter's indictment, we see this is not, in fact, true. Yes, Cooper and Miller helped pin down the fact that Libby lied on the stand when he said he had told them he heard about Plame's CIA affliation from other reporters and didn't know if those rumors were true or false.

But Fitzgerald already had copious evidence of Scooter's perjury -- from Tim Russert, from witnesses inside the White House, at State and at the CIA, from documents faxed to Libby by the CIA, and from Libby's own notes. Fitzgerald didn't need Cooper's testimony to prove it, and once he had Cooper's he certainly didn't need Miller's.

What Fitzgerald did need them both for -- Miller in particular -- was to prove that Scooter illegally leaked classified information to those not authorized to know it. Other government officials couldn't give him that, nor could Russert -- Meathead says he and Scooter never talked about Plame at all."

my guess is that there is something else in those 8 redacted pages - i wonder what the legal process is to get them unredacted. presumably, if the info in those pages was simply to get the testimony that we now know from the indictments, then they could be now unredacted (or at least during/after the trial).