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."
NY Times Statement on Judith Miller
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Ahhhh! there isn't one! ahh hah hah hah hah!
If he were the source then she would have taken his offer (18 months ago, BTW) to release all contacts, to name him for any discussion he had had.
No, Miller's in jail protecting a source because there still remains a source to protect. And its valuable enough to sit and jail for. She will go to the mat to protect [that RAT]. My guess in Wilson or Plame themselves.
That's what they say, but we all know they are lurker-trolls.
. . . things that make you go, hmmmmmm . . .
You don't have to accept immunity.
The leak to Miller may have come from within the CIA itself. Novak did confirm that he spoke to someone in the CIA and they confirmed that Plame was connected to the selection of her husband for the Niger trip.
Despite all the lies, distortions and attacks by liberals and their media whores against President Bush, his policies, and his administration in the last 4 1/2 years, the most savage attacks were in 2004, he was re-elected by the largest number of votes ever cast for a President.
Please do not fall into the fatal mistake that liberals have been committing for some many decades which is to consider the public as stupid or ignorant.
Reporters are not above the law, just like Presidents. It is her source, if any, who is keeping her in jail by not releasing her like Rove did.
Obviously that government official is ... Valerie Plame. It would appear Fitzgerald has these LIARS Game, Set & Match
Since Wilson was a syncophant of Kerry's, wouldn't it be funny if it was someone from Kerry's organization or the Dems... After all, Joe Wilson immediately accused Rove of leaking the info right after Novack's article. You know that if Rove was the source Miller would have blasted it from the rooftops - after all it was election season. I think she's protecting someone on the Left. Plus I wonder how Berger ties into all of this....But hey, I put on my tinfoil hat this AM.
But then we would know whom she is protecting!
Yes, Miller is in jail for contempt of court. Why is she in contempt? Because she refuses to testify.
Is leaking classified information still a crime? If so, was she a witness to that crime being committed?
You have to testify about a crime if you are a material witness; it is not optional...not for *any* crime.
Indeed, but we never determined if DT made the person up, or (more likely) someone played him bigtime. Both scenario's have potential relevance, the latter perhaps even directly.
Miller: Hi Valerie, just wanted to be sure you saw Joe's column in the Times today.
Plame: I sure did! Thanks, Judy for making all this happen. Joe is going to be the toast of Washington now! And nobody is going to know why he really went to Niger, are they?
Miller: Of course not, I'M not telling anyone! You know I will always protect you. Let me know whenever you have some more scoop about those WMD.
Plame: Sure thing, Judy!
She obviously didn't learn Plame's identity from Rove, who gave the journalists a release. Must have been somebody at the CIA - or Plame herself. In any event, Plame wasn't in hiding.
She should be in the D C jail, but has been placed in a Virginia jail. The reason given is the overcrowding in the D C jail. I'll bet not many get the same change from a very tough situation to one that is much nicer.
What she considered the possible consequences for telling the truth about ex42 must have seemed far worse than sitting in jail for a while. This is probably true of the many people who have "rolled over one more time" for the Clintons.
I can't tell you how heartbroken I am after learning from the N.Y. Slimes that I am mean spirited. sniff sniff
Piss off N.Y. Slimes.
Here is some quotes from Novak's own writing:
Two senior administration officials told me Wilson's wife suggested sending him to Niger to investigate the Italian report. The CIA says its counter-proliferation officials selected Wilson and asked his wife to contact him. "
question -- he says TWO senior admin officials... who besides Rove is Novak friendly enough with to pick up the phone.. also, note in this October 2003 writing, he says told him??? hmmmm.... he says HE told Rove, so maybe two other WH people???
This from Novak earlier in 2003 in townhall.com
The leak now under Justice Department investigation is described by former Ambassador Wilson and critics of President Bush's Iraq policy as a reprehensible effort to silence them. To protect my own integrity and credibility, I would like to stress three points. First, I did not receive a planned leak. Second, the CIA never warned me that the disclosure of Wilson's wife working at the agency would endanger her or anybody else. Third, it was not much of a secret.
The current Justice investigation stems from a routine, mandated probe of all CIA leaks, but follows weeks of agitation. Wilson, after telling me in July that he would say nothing about his wife, has made investigation of the leak his life's work -- aided by the relentless Sen. Charles Schumer of New York. These efforts cannot be separated from the massive political assault on President Bush.
Then he goes on to give some background, very interesting (to me) to re-read from his own finger tips with the events of this week. Notice in this writing (which superceded the notes from above) he commented that ONE senior admin official was involved.....
This story began July 6 when Wilson went public and identified himself as the retired diplomat who had reported negatively to the CIA in 2002 on alleged Iraq efforts to buy uranium yellowcake from Niger. I was curious why a high-ranking official in President Bill Clinton's National Security Council (NSC) was given this assignment. Wilson had become a vocal opponent of President Bush's policies in Iraq after contributing to Al Gore in the last election cycle and John Kerry in this one.
During a long conversation with a senior administration official, I asked why Wilson was assigned the mission to Niger. He said Wilson had been sent by the CIA's counterproliferation section at the suggestion of one of its employees, his wife. It was an offhand revelation from this official, who is no partisan gunslinger. When I called another official for confirmation, he said: "Oh, you know about it." The published report that somebody in the White House failed to plant this story with six reporters and finally found me as a willing pawn is simply untrue.
At the CIA, the official designated to talk to me denied that Wilson's wife had inspired his selection but said she was delegated to request his help. He asked me not to use her name, saying she probably never again will be given a foreign assignment but that exposure of her name might cause "difficulties" if she travels abroad. He never suggested to me that Wilson's wife or anybody else would be endangered. If he had, I would not have used her name. I used it in the sixth paragraph of my column because it looked like the missing explanation of an otherwise incredible choice by the CIA for its mission.
How big a secret was it? It was well known around Washington that Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Republican activist Clifford May wrote Monday, in National Review Online, that he had been told of her identity by a non-government source before my column appeared and that it was common knowledge. Her name, Valerie Plame, was no secret either, appearing in Wilson's "Who's Who in America" entry.
A big question is her duties at Langley. I regret that I referred to her in my column as an "operative," a word I have lavished on hack politicians for more than 40 years. While the CIA refuses to publicly define her status, the official contact says she is "covered" -- working under the guise of another agency. However, an unofficial source at the Agency says she has been an analyst, not in covert operations.
The Justice Department investigation was not requested by CIA Director George Tenet. Any leak of classified information is routinely passed by the Agency to Justice, averaging one a week. This investigative request was made in July shortly after the column was published. Reported only last weekend, the request ignited anti-Bush furor. ©2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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