Nothing But the Truth

'Thinking Pulitzer Prize and hoping to bring down a President, D.C. political columnist Rachel Armstrong writes that the President ignored the findings of a covert CIA operative when ordering air strikes against Venezuela. Rachel names the agent, Erica Van Doren, a woman whose young daughter is in Rachel\'s son\'s class at school. The government moves quickly to force Rachel to name her source. She\'s jailed for contempt when she refuses. She won\'t change her mind, and the days add up. Chaos descends on Van Doren\'s life as well. First Amendment versus national security, marriage and motherhood versus separation. What\'s the value of a principle?'

Nothing But The Truth is a 2008 American drama film written and directed by Rod Lurie. According to comments made by Lurie in The Truth Hurts, a bonus feature on the DVD release, his inspiration for the screenplay was the case of journalist Judith Miller, who in July 2005 was jailed for contempt of court for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury investigating a leak naming Valerie Plame as a covert CIA operative, but this was merely a starting point for what is primarily a fictional story. In an April 2009 interview, Lurie stressed, "I should say that the film is about neither of these women although certainly their stories as reported in the press went in to the creation of their characters and the situation they find themselves in."

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