Reporter Judith Miller enters fifth week in jail [View All]

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Reporter Judith Miller enters fifth week in jail

Associated Press Writer

ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- When August arrives in the nation's capital, Washingtonians stay inside to avoid the steamy heat. After almost a month in jail, New York Times reporter Judith Miller says she would like nothing better than to get outdoors.

"She joked that the swampy, humid air of Washington smelled as sweet as could be" on the couple of occasions she was allowed outside at the Alexandria Detention Center, said Times managing editor Jill Abramson, who visited Miller last week.

Miller was jailed July 6 for civil contempt for refusing to testify to the grand jury investigating the leak of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, Valerie Plame. Prosecutors want Miller to divulge to whom she spoke while doing reporting.

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Zacarias Moussaoui, the only person convicted in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks, has been at the jail for more than three years. Six rooms are allotted to him and his voluminous court materials as he prepares for a sentencing trial next year.

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