My role in it was not as central as it was in some of the later cases considering I was younger then and I was playing a role of co-counsel on the case.

I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there.

[Abrams also minimized Miller's assertion that another source may have given her the name] Valerie Flame, ... in passing. . . . The central and essentially only figure who had information was Libby.

There are some circumstances in which the First Amendment interest comes up against another interest that is really important and in which we have to make a decision in a particular case as to which is more important.

Here we have a situation where a defendant in a case agrees to an interview with Dan Rather. It happened to be not confidential. But it was an interview with Dan Rather.

I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down.