God Has Ninety-Nine Names
by Judith Miller
It appears that Peter King is getting his wish about who is frog stepped away to jail wearing handcuffs, and it ain't going be Carl Rove or any White House insider.
The last two paragraphs are the legal advise the NY Slimes lawyers have given to the old lying gray whore for the DNC.
"Mr. Novak was the first journalist to identify Valerie Plame as an undercover C.I.A. officer, in a column on July 14, 2003. Ms. Plame's husband, Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former diplomat, has asserted that the disclosure of her identity was retribution for his contention eight days earlier, in an Op-Ed article in The Times, that President Bush relied on discredited intelligence on Iraq in his 2003 State of the Union address.
"The Times has not published any articles saying it received information about Ms. Plame's identity.
More for your indexing re the slime balls of the media up to their clymers in the Wilson/Plame fiasco for them.
For your enjoyment and ping lists.
fyi
As the war against terrorists is going very well for us in Iraq, it appears to be picking up steam against the Kerrorist/terrorists in America.
A whole lot of reporters are finding out about reality when they spread lies which include classified data when there is a controlling legal authority.
More good news for our side this week.
What a difference a year makes.
Now we are getting to read about the real criminals in the Wilson/Plame fiasco for the left wing mediots.
WHAT, is this an uncovering of a LIBERAL media conspiracy???
Johnny Edwards might have to lend a helping hand for the upcoming "fight" against the "government.
Know what would be funny? If it turns out Joe Wilson was going over all over Washington telling reporters about the "bogus" Niger story and also told everyone his wife was with the CIA. Yes, that would be funny.
"The Times has not published any articles saying it received information about Ms. Plame's identity."
So? The investigation isn't limited to that.
I can't recall Miller ever writing anything particular about the matter. But she writes about WMDs...
If it were Karl Rove that leaked the story, somehow i dont think all these media elites would be fretting about "revealing their sources"!
The subpeona list from Newsday in March:
Robert Novak, "Crossfire," "Capital Gang" and the Chicago Sun-Times
Knut Royce and Timothy M. Phelps, Newsday
Walter Pincus, Richard Leiby, Mike Allen, Dana Priest and Glenn Kessler, The Washington Post
Matthew Cooper, John Dickerson, Massimo Calabresi, Michael Duffy and James Carney, Time magazine
Evan Thomas, Newsweek
Andrea Mitchell, "Meet the Press," NBC
Chris Matthews, "Hardball,"
MSNBC
Tim Russert, Campbell Brown, NBC
Nicholas D. Kristof, David E. Sanger and Judith Miller, The New York Times
Greg Hitt and Paul Gigot, The Wall Street Journal
John Solomon, The Associated Press
Jeff Gannon, Talon News
God Has Ninety-Nine Names
by Judith Miller
there's the leak
Back when columnist Robert Novak looked to be the main target of special federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald, our professional press ethicists were tut-tutting about how they'd never "hide" behind journalistic privilege to abet a "crime." But now that a federal judge has held Time magazine reporter Matthew Cooper in contempt for refusing to tell a grand jury the sources for his own Valerie Plame story, suddenly the eyebrows furrow and talk turns to the threat to the First Amendment...The media powers now wringing their collective hands at this prospect have no one to blame but themselves. As these columns pointed out from the start, in their enthusiasm for a criminal investigation that liberals saw as a twofer--discrediting a conservative columnist as well as the Bush Administration--they were really painting bull's-eyes on other reporters. We await comment from Geneva Overholser, Orville Schell and all the other journalistic sages who were so quick to find Mr. Novak unworthy of the usual press protections....
In recent decades we in the news business have depended less on legal privilege in protecting ourselves from being compelled to give up our sources than on a healthy recognition by most prosecutors that jailing reporters for standing on principle is not wise. What has been unleashed by the federal investigation into the Novak leak now threatens to alter that balance decisively. And those who only now decry the implications for First Amendment freedoms are coming very late to the game.
Thanks for the post, information.
