134^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As July opens, the grand jury investigation in the CIA leak matter continues, putting some pressure on national media figures who accommodated the administration. Bob Woodward of the Washington Post gives a series of interviews in July, downplaying the significance of the leak—actually a plant—and concealing the fact that he himself was one of the recipients of the planted information about Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame.
July, 2005:

July 6, 2005 – Judith Miller is jailed for refusing to comply with the grand jury subpoena.

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