New York Times reporter Judith Miller (C) listens to Newsday reporter Patricia Hurtado while on a panel discussion during the Society of Professional Journalists national convention at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada, October 18, 2005. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)
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There have been a few indications that Keller may have been involved in this from the start. I don't know if he's playing CYA or if he just hates Miller because she doesn't ask "How high?" when he tells her to jump.
And TNYT sets up the eventual "fall from grace."
After all, they can't just come out and say that they don't like how Miller decided to testify, since they think that was the act of a Bush stoogey. And oh, how they hate Bush!
No, easier to say they were "misled" by a reporter. Again!
Wake me when one does his/her job OK?
So... is this a "correction" to the 9000 words they printed about the story just days ago?
...aimed at Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson.
I guess they're saving something for the next correction.
NEWS FLASH!!!!
STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!!
New York Times May Have Gotten A Clue!!!
Film at 11.
Holy crap on a cracker!
A semi-balanced news story from the AP?!
Miller will get a book deal out of this. No one north of 86th Street or across the river will read the book, and it will only sell a few thousand copies, but she'll get a big advance, which is how MSM book publishers take care of MSM scandal figures.
Her days as a reporter are over. She got where she got by (1) sleeping with sources, for which she's getting way too old and weatherbeaten, and (2), using her position as a 'star' in the highly caste-conscious NYT newsroom environment to put her byline on others' work.
Of course, she might get picked up by broadcast news, which has much lower standards than even the NYT or Boston Globe.
d.o.l.
Criminal Number 18F
The way I see this:
Ms. Miller's editor knew everything that Ms. Miller knew. She would not have kept anything from him. She depended on the NYT to be her rock. ha!
Her editor encouraged her to put up the pretense of "protecting her source no matter what". And her editor likely promised that the NYT would stand behind her, give her good press, hold her job, help her with promoting her book, etc. Of course, this resulted in her spending 80+ days in jail, for nothing.
The purpose of this charade was to PROLONG the inevitable, the inevitable being that she did not have anything to substantiate her claim. This is simply ANOTHER attempt to discredit the Administration by making up false allegations. The paper promised Ms. Miller that they would stand by her -- and the sad thing is that she believed them.
I can see her getting indicted because of Obstruction of Justice and perjury from this.. Fitzgerald is upset with her anyhow because of tipping the terrorists in that raid and he has already shown he doesn't mind putting journalists in jail.
Wouldn't THAT upset some liberals!!! She gets indicted but Rove and Libby get off!
---The evidence of that meeting has become important to the investigation because it indicates that Libby was passing information to reporters about Plame well before her husband went public with accusations that the Bush administration had twisted pre-war intelligence on Iraq.---
Why would they do that? There was nothing to get revenge about at that time. I don't get it.
I think Keller should bring back Jayson Blair to do an in depth investigation.
How could Keller compromise with Fitzgerald? When asked before a Grand Jury you either tell the truth and all you know or you don't! What's to compromise?
This is bad news on so many levels for the Old Grey Whore.
This guy from the Times is trying to implicate Libby when Miller wouldn't, inserting himself as a witness (maybe the guy Miller refused to finger). If there is a criminal trial (God forfend) it will be a who's who of Liberal Journalism called to testify.
No bias here -- move along.
Why is it that when a liberal is caught in an obvious damn lie, it is defined as misleading, while a conservative who is merely aleged to be in error, is defined as a liar???
The question is merely rectumorical-no answer required or expected.
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