Posted on 07/08/2005 9:46:11 AM PDT by andyk
You don't have to like newspapers -- and a lot of people don't -- to understand that the jailing of Judith Miller for keeping her word to a source is a sad day for all of us, including those who think it's a good idea to put reporters in their place.
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Forty-nine of the states, together with the District of Columbia, have laws in place to protect such sources. These laws were not enacted for the convenience of newspapers, but to buttress the guarantees of the First Amendment that are the heritage of all of us.
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Every one of us, including Judge Hogan and Prosecutor Fitzgerald, are in her debt. She is clearly the best and biggest man in this sordid episode of justice having run off the rails.
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Gee, wonder why?
But the other reporter said the source had released him. Presumably this is the same person.
She doesn't know who the source is, because she made it all up.
She can't just make up a name, because she might get it wrong and risk a perjury rap.
She can't ask the other reporter because that would probably be an obstruction of justice rap.
Enjoy your Summer, Judith
Hummm Miller, same last name as me, so she must be a Neo-Con (JEWISH Rep)!~}
You are mixing apples and grapefruit then.
Give me a break with your silly comparisons between real whistleblowing journalism and the plot that is this Wilson/Plame story.
Please see my #56. She didn't make up a source and the grand jury knows exactly who it is (plus he/she has waived the confidentiality).
It was the anonymous sources from the CIA and State Dept. bureaurocrats that screwed up most attempts to get the anti-terrorist campaign underway. They did all they could via secret leaks to the leftwing media. The CIA was a major source of such information from agents, analysts and even higher ups who wanted to protect their previously erroneous assessments about Iraq, save their bailiwick and undermine the prez. Elements in the State Dept. also did their worst to mess up the Iraq situation. Proof of this was spelled out clearly in Laurie Mylroie's book, "Bush vs. the Beltway" If you haven't read it, I recommend you do. Amazon may still have it.
But it ain't. Just a hunch :)
I agree, had her colleagues not been chasing greed and political ideology and they printed the truth then the MSM would be deserving of protections.
So, who is she protecting? Obviously it isn't Rove. Let's see if she does the honorable thing or if she let's her vultures attempt to destroy someone just because they think they can.
This idea that the "press" has some special privilege to break the law is absurd.
It's not often that the Washington Times gets this sloppy. How can they presume to know WHAT it is that the Special Prosecutor and the grand jury are NOW investigating. Personally, I think it's perjury. I want some indictments.
"Judith Miller saw her duty, and she did it."
No she didn't. If her source was a Republican, she would have sung like a freakin' canary LONG ago. As a matter of fact, the reason the dying socialist "mainstream" newsrooms jumped up and down and hollered for a special prosecutor in the first place was because they were sure the leaker was a Republican. It has now dawned on them that the leaker must be one of their own (ie., a Democrat) and they have suddenly gone righteous. Screw 'em, the disgraceful hypocrites. I want the scumbag Miller to rot in prison.
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