Why Judy really went to jail
Not enough attention has been paid to Floyd Abrams' role in the Judy affair. No matter how you feel about her, it seems clear that Abrams encouraged her to go to jail and become a martyr for press freedom, which as a noted civil liberties attorney is his own passion.
Time's Matt Cooper figured that out months ago, fired Abrams and found a lawyer who could keep him out of prison. Judy didn't get out of jail until the Times hired a new lawyer, too. It wasn't Libby who changed his waiver so Judy could get out of jail; it was a new lawyer talking to Libby's lawyer and putting an entirely different interpretation on the same set of facts.
It seems to me that Floyd Abrams put his own interests above those of his client. And you could make a case that the NY Times did the same thing by hiring Abrams and encouraging that same point of view. In my opinion, that's why Judy's the only one who did hard time.
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