A Split Between The Times & Miller?

The Washington Post ^ | 10-22-2005 | Howard Kurtz

[bethtopaz]

Thanks for your service, Piquaboy. We are not worthy!

[Lancey Howard]

re: "mostly"
Good catch.

[nopardons]

Spot on!

[nopardons]

Many of us here have been saying that Miller knew Plame years ago, for a very long time. Your research adds weight to that educated supposition.

Thanks for the link!

[nopardons]

They'll all try to keep as much of the facts as quite and hidden as possible; however, Fitzgerald may not go along for that ride.

We, at FR, have been sure and certain, that Miller did NOT go to jail to protect Scooter Libby. Bennett now appears to have given they game away and proved us correct.

[p23185]

Don't be silly. Laws are for the little people, not MSM reporters!

Clearly - I have seen many stories on this website that expound on how the MSM believes it should be able to release CLASSIFIED DATA to the general populace if it helps to "get the truth out about the illegal war in Iraq and Afghanistan". The MSM believes they have a "special place" in American truth telling, no matter who it hurts (or gets killed). It would be funny if it wasn't so serious a breach of national security!!

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

OT but, are you a tube freak too? I've got some nice nos GE 6sj7's.

[kabar]

This really confuses me. Do Keller and Abramson actually mean that as long as their reporter is in legal jeopardy because of possible misrepresentation of facts,

That may very well be the reason. If I recall, Miller was called back a second time. She may be the one indicted.

[kcvl]

"Until Fitzgerald came after her," Keller wrote, "I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the . . . whisper campaign" against Joe Wilson, the husband of CIA operative Valerie Plame. "I should have wondered why I was learning this from the special counsel, a year after the fact." Citing a 2003 conversation with Miller that was recalled by Washington bureau chief Philip Taubman, Keller wrote: "Judy seems to have misled Phil Taubman about the extent of her involvement."

Keller was traveling yesterday and could not be reached. Managing Editor Jill Abramson and George Freeman, a Times Co. lawyer involved in the case, did not respond to phone messages, and a Times spokeswoman declined comment.

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Bennett said he forcefully argued against Miller's accompanying first-person piece about her dealings with Libby because "it could affect the criminal prosecution" of senior administration officials who may have outed Plame as working for the CIA as part of a campaign against her husband, a White House critic. Such an article also "would antagonize the prosecutor, Mr. Fitzgerald," Bennett said.

"At one point Judy agreed to do what I recommended. But she was under tremendous pressure by the New York Times to write the story" as a condition of her employment.

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Bennett said he insisted that Miller not provide her notes to the Times reporters conducting the inquiry

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"They were documents which had been subpoenaed by the grand jury, and I didn't think it was appropriate to share them," he said. "But even if it wasn't illegal, there was a pending criminal investigation."

[ozdragon]

I agree with you analysis.
In addition Novak claims he spoke to the CIA before publishing his article and was not discouraged from revealing that Wilson's wife worked for the Agency.
Therefore revealing her identity could not be a crime.

[barkeep]

Good catch, quite right.

[woofie]

Yours is the only thing Ive read about all this that makes sense