Miller freed

New York Times reporter Judith Miller left jail this morning after securing a waiver from her confidential source -- Lewis Libby. As detailed in this Times story, Libby tried to communicate the waiver about a year ago but Miller did not accept it until now, when she says it was given to her personally and unequivocally. Perhaps she should have clarified that before and she could have avoided spending 12 weeks in jail. My question is this: Did the Times pay her salary all that time she sat in the slammer? After all, she got jailed on company business.

Speaking of the Times, I am reading a fascinating book about the newspaper by Seth Mnookin. It's called Hard News, and it details the rocky tenure of Howell Raines as executive editor. (Maybe Miller can write a book called Hard Time.)