Did Libby Warn Miller Against "Turning"?

Personally, I think this 'Dear Judy' Letter from 'Scooter' sounds like a veiled threat"

Dear Judy,

Your reporting, and you are missed. Like many Americans, I admire your principled stand. But, like many friends and readers, I would welcome you back among the rest of us, doing what you do best—reporting...

You went into jail in the summer. It is fall now. You will have stories to cover—Iraqi elections and suicide bombers, biological threats and the Iranian nuclear program. Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning. They turn in clusters, because their roots connect them. Come back to work - and life. Until then, you will remain in my thoughts and prayers.

With admiration,

Scooter Libby

UPDATE: Blogcritics reaches the same conclusion and adds this interesting para fromt he letter:

As noted above, my lawyer confirmed my waiver to other reporters in just the way he did with your lawyer. Why? Because, as I am sure will not be news to you, the public report of every other reporter's testimony makes clear that they did not discuss Ms. Plame's name or identity with me, or knew about her before our call . . .

If I "decode" this letter, it sounds like Libby is warning Miller that nobody else has fingered him and even threatening Miller's "life" if she "turns". Yet Miller says the reason she stayed in jail was because she believed Libby's waiver had been coerced. Was that just a story?

E&P has more details here:

Floyd Abrams, one of Miller's lawyers, told CNN: "I tried to get a deal a year ago."

But Abrams said that when he spoke to Fitzgerald about it at the time, he would not agree to limit his questions "to assure that the only source he would effectively be asking about was Mr. Libby."

But why were Miller's lawyers even offering such a deal? I mean, why offer to discuss Libby only? Were Rove and Cheney throwing Libby to the dogs? Miller's laywer said that Libby's lawyer said that the original waiver was "by its nature coerced"...

How could it not be, he said. That's a waiver the government forces him to sign in order to stay on in the government. Otherwise he'd be fired.

Libby's lawyer says he never said that. Oh my God, one of these lawyers must be lying!

TIME has a new article on this issue, saying that Libby "has often been the last man to speak to the last man to speak to President George W. Bush before a decision gets made"...

Libby is so spooky that even today, his office declines to confirm his real first name. (The best speculation is Irving.)

Talk about excessive secrecy in government - we don't even know their names!

UPDATE 2: The WaPo led speculation this week that Fitzgerald could be chasing a "Criminal conspiracy" charge which would net several White House figures in one go. So who exactly was in the conspiracy to finger Wilson's wife? George Stephanopoulos drops a potential bombshell:

a source close to this told me this week, that President Bush and Vice President Cheney were actually involved in some of these discussions.

UPDATE 3: Jay Rosen, a journalism teacher at NYU, also has some good analysis... and more questions.