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To: STARWISE; Shermy; MizSterious; Fedora; okie01
Thanks for the ping.

Pinging others to look (and I note the Times correctly uses the phrase that Miller's testimony is wanted regarding a "government" official. In a different article recently they tried to subsitute a phrase meant to imply direct WH affiliation):

Ms. Miller never wrote a story about the matter. She has refused to testify in response to a court order directing her to testify in response to a subpoena from Mr. Fitzgerald seeking her testimony about a conversation with a specified government official between June 6, 2003, and June 13, 2003.

During that period, Ms. Miller was working primarily from the Washington bureau of The Times, reporting to Jill Abramson, who was the Washington bureau chief at the time, and was assigned to report for an article published July 20, 2003, about Iraq and the hunt for unconventional weapons, according to Ms. Abramson, who is now managing editor of The Times.

Interesting---remember I've pointed out her subpoena wants to know about information gleaned from this official about Iraq trying to obtain uranium.

73 posted on 07/28/2005 8:42:16 AM PDT by cyncooper
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To: cyncooper

It's like the old "Chinese torture"--coming out a drop at a time. Yup, not a WH official--and they're good at parsing so I believe this to be true--but a "government" official.


76 posted on 07/28/2005 8:53:02 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: cyncooper; STARWISE; Shermy; MizSterious; Fedora; okie01

re: Miller and the NY Times

There's a crucial media angle that I haven't seen discussed in detail anywhere (though we all know the MSM has been eager to manipulate this story) - the extent to which the NY Times and all of the MSM were desperate, absolutely desperate, for this story to be true.

There's a very telling passage in Joe Wilson's book, in which he describes going to meet a NY Times editor for lunch in the days right after his July 6, 2003 op-ed had appeared, and got a hero's welcome - they absolutely loved him for helping to slay the Bush/Rove dragon, as they thought..... when the editor introduces him to some reporter the guy says to Wilson "So you're the guy who saved this paper!" or words to that effect. Of course, nothing Wilson says is trustworthy, but the point of his little anecdote was that it was right after the Jayson Blair fiasco and the Times people were looking at Wilson as their salvation, as a key story that would blow the Bush administration out of the water and restore the luster of the NY Times. This helps to explain why they are so desperate to prevent Miller from showing that the whole Rove scandal is a set up.... I'm sure there was a similar attitude at WaPo and other outlets....

The MSM, most of all the NY Times, were/are desperate to pump up Wilson - it's a parallel to the Rathergate/Burkett scandal. I know this won't surprise anyone here, but from Wilson's first-hand account of his visit to the NY Times in early July 2003 we have to consider the vast extent to which the MSM, and especially the NY Times, have been willing to subvert all journalistic and political ethics to protect this story.

Jayson Blair is a piker compared to the editors of the NY Times....


80 posted on 07/28/2005 9:01:49 AM PDT by Enchante (Kerry's mere nuisances: Marine Barracks '83, WTC '93, Khobar Towers, Embassy Bombs '98, USS Cole!!!)
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To: cyncooper
Interesting---remember I've pointed out her subpoena wants to know about information gleaned from this official about Iraq trying to obtain uranium.

Valerie Plame herself would fit the description, would she not? Or Alan Foley, maybe...

144 posted on 07/28/2005 6:36:20 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: IGNORANCE ON PARADE)
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