Posted on 07/15/2005 11:17:43 AM PDT by kristinn
"Ms. Miller learned about Valerie Plame from a confidential source or sources whose identity she continues to protect to this day. If the suggestion is that she is covering up for herself or some fictitious source, that is preposterous. Given that she is suffering in jail, it is also mean-spirited."
She's not at Gitmo so she is probably suffering! Sarcasm off!
It's David Corn who was informed by Wilson.
BTW, notice something here about the dates:
"According to the appellate court's opinion, Fitzgerald knows the identity of the person with whom Miller spoke and wants to question her about her contact with that "specified government official" on or about July 6, 2003. Miller never wrote a story on the subject."
"What I Didn't Find in Africa
Published on Sunday, July 6, 2003 by the New York Times. What I Didn't Find in Africa. by Joseph C. Wilson 4th."
The proper term is "mean". But the libs know how silly they'll look if they write about someone being "mean".
" If the suggestion is that she is covering up for a Republican in the White House, that is equally preposterous."
The left despises Karl Rove possibly more than they do Rush Limbaugh and George Bush.
The thought that any of them would go to jail -especially that girly man Cooper- to keep Karl Rove out of jail- is beyond preposterous.
Which reminds me-the other night Carl Cameron reported that Cooper told the press that he testified to the GJ that KR was " a " source.
Not his source or the source-but, a source. Which I thought very interesting.
Miller's husband gave an interview to editorandpublsiher.com on July 6-
"Her husband said Miller was "surrounded by marshals and well-wishers" and "was not dragged off in chains. She was prepared for it. I'm not sure I would have done as well."
"He also described her as being "made of steel" and believed she would handle life behind bars well."
"She was quite prepared to take the consequences and the judge had no choice, she understood that," Epstein told E&P less than two hours after Miller was ordered to jail. "They promised to take good care of her."
"Epstein, who has been married to her for 11 years, said she believed that she had to protect her source, but also realized that jail was the only option."
"I don't see how it could have been avoided because the law is the law," he said. "She exhausted her appeals and had no place left to go.
When she made up her mind, I don't think you could change it if you put a gun to her head."
How foolish would Miller be to languish in jail to " protect " KR ?
When he has happily released everyone from the WH stewards who make his coffee to each and every reporter on the face of the earth to go to the GJ and discuss their convos.
GJ testimony is secret and if Fitzgerald is not required to write a report, we may never know what went on in there.
But, Miller can't take that chance.
Judy will hit the weight room, lose weight get out in Oct. looking fit and go on a year long orgy of tv sob sister shows.
Write a book and laugh all her way to the bank while playing the martyr role to the hilt. She may even have learned to avoid the VLWC's jihad against Bush.
"How foolish would Miller be to languish in jail to " protect " KR ?"
What if Judith Miller's testimony would EXONERATE Karl Rove?
You don't think she and her masters at the NY Times would want her to spend some time in the klink to avoid doing that?
I continue to shake my head in disbelief that the once formidable (and even reputable!) New York Times - - the former "paper of record" - - lets one of its own reporters rot in prison in order to protect their political party, while at the same time they scream for Rove's head, all because he may have exposed what was a closely guarded secret among the Washington DC cocktail circuit for years - - that "Wilson's wife" was "apparently employed by the CIA".
The New York Times is shrinking before our eyes.
Isn't it a joy to watch? NYTimes -- the old gray whore.
For a bit of inconvience she's adding a great entry to her lib resume, an entry that will enable her to earn millions for the rest of her life. The only contempt citation that works in a case like this is a fine, directed at an individual or organization that can pay it, that doubles every day. If the judge started with $1,000 and doubled it every day, the NYT would either come up with the source or end up being owned by the government in short order. The idea of a contempt citation is to coerce compliance with a court's order, not to create a wealthy martyr.
I think the information was common knowledge and the Democrats turned it into a federal investigation because they thought they could ensnare Rove.
The main point is that if the govcrnment can get the names of sources from reporters, people won't be able to blow the whistle on President Rodham's misuse of office.
So was Chris Matthews - Wilson said that himself.
"Other members of the MSM who weren't connected automatically assumed that Novak's piece had been planted by the WH and they smelled blood"
I think you're on target except for the "automatically assumed" part. There has been a far more calculated attempt to shape the responses of the MSM - either by Wilson speaking confidentially to reporters, or else by a "cut out" Wilson may have used to channel his allegations and musings to reporters while giving him deniability and legal distance.
The mulish MSM reporters were led by the nose to the water, they did not 'assume' it - just review what Clifford May's piece has to say about how TWO DAYS after Novack's column appeared the whole Joe Wilson story alleging White House 'smears' has already been worked up in the left-wing rag called "The Nation":
http://www.nationalreview.com/may/may200507150827.asp
Wilson (and possibly one or more persons close to him) may well have had a large role behind the scenes, shaping the story as it emerged in July 2003. It's highly plausible that Judith Miller is shielding Wilson and/or any intermediary he used to shop this story.
As Clifford May's article suggests, there is good reason to believe that Wilson or someone close to him was working this behind the scenes, shopping the story to various media reporters. Look at the great detail Corn goes into about Joe Wilson's career and the ridiculous attempt to portray him as a very mainstream, perhaps even Republican, figure who can't stomach the Bush White House.
Here is the left-wing hack David Corn attacking the supposed "thuggish act" of White House operatives supposedly revealing Valerie Plame's identity out of some ridiculous 'revenge' motive against Joe Wilson:
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?bid=3&pid=823
Good work Sam.
So did the other media involved.
CONGRATULATIONS!! You're one of the first people to get the use and derivation of the term right. If you're a weapons junkie, like I am, rent or buy a DVD of the PBS series, "By the Sword Divided," which was broadcast some time in the '70s. It's a really great story about the travails of an English family during the English Civil War of the seventeenth century. The climax is the siege of their country estate, where the royalist members of the family are holding out against the Roundheads. During the siege the Roundheads place a petard against the estate's gate and blow the gate off with it. There's also a great scene where the Roundheads fire a mortar at the estate using the seventeenth century procedure of first lighting the fuse on the bomb and then lighting the fuse to the mortar's propelling charge.
She could invoke the Fifth but the GJ can just waive any self-incrimination and force her testimony anyway. This is how Momo Giancana was thrown into jail during the 60s provoking an undying and deadly hatred of the Kennedy administration.
Why was Susan McDougal willing to sit in jail for Bill Clinton? These liberals are screwy in the head.
I love your list of insinuations but see no evidence that Senator Fat Ankles was involved. Schumer looks more likely.
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