Times: Miller May Have Misled Editors

ap on Yahoo ^ | 10/22/05 | John Solomon - ap

[NormsRevenge]

New York Times reporter Judith Miller (C) listens to Newsday reporter Patricia Hurtado while on a panel discussion during the Society of Professional Journalists national convention at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas Nevada, October 18, 2005. (Steve Marcus/Reuters)

[n230099]

[enter slot machine payout sounds here]

[NormsRevenge]

'Helen' of Troy NYT .. The face that launched a thousand days of investigation, all for nought

[Cicero]

There have been a few indications that Keller may have been involved in this from the start. I don't know if he's playing CYA or if he just hates Miller because she doesn't ask "How high?" when he tells her to jump.

[Terpfen]

And TNYT sets up the eventual "fall from grace."

After all, they can't just come out and say that they don't like how Miller decided to testify, since they think that was the act of a Bush stoogey. And oh, how they hate Bush!

No, easier to say they were "misled" by a reporter. Again!

[irish guard]

Oh my...a major newspaper editor that failed to do his job......again.....Yawn.

Wake me when one does his/her job OK?

[thoughtomator]

In an e-mail memo Friday to the newspaper's staff, Executive Editor Bill Keller said that until Special Counsel Patrick Fitzgerald subpoenaed Miller in the criminal probe, "I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end" of leaks...

So... is this a "correction" to the 9000 words they printed about the story just days ago?

...aimed at Bush administration critic Joseph Wilson.

I guess they're saving something for the next correction.

[Grampa Dave]

If the NY Slimes ends up with egg on its publisher's and editor's faces in this fabricated non story, its stock value will continue drop like a rock. Below is the graph showing the declining value of a NY Slimes share price since their attacks against GW increased in 2004.

[Eagles Talon IV]

This and the other similar stories are just the NYT setting the ground work to blow this reporterette out the door for straying from the strict anti Administration line drawn by the NY Slimes.

[jveritas]

Even worse for Miller is that she had misled the prosecutor and the Grand Jury.

[DustyMoment]

NEWS FLASH!!!!

STOP THE PRESSES!!!!!!!!!

New York Times May Have Gotten A Clue!!!

Film at 11.

[andyandval]

The evidence of that meeting has become important to the investigation because it indicates that Libby was passing information to reporters about Plame well before her husband went public with accusations that the Bush administration had twisted pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

Holy crap on a cracker!

A semi-balanced news story from the AP?!

[DustyMoment]

Even worse for Miller is that she had misled the prosecutor and the Grand Jury.

In DemocrapLand, that's not a crime!!

[Criminal Number 18F]

This is pretty funny. The Times's in-group morality is offended. "You lied to the editors! That's not kosher. You're only supposed to lie to the readers.

Miller will get a book deal out of this. No one north of 86th Street or across the river will read the book, and it will only sell a few thousand copies, but she'll get a big advance, which is how MSM book publishers take care of MSM scandal figures.

Her days as a reporter are over. She got where she got by (1) sleeping with sources, for which she's getting way too old and weatherbeaten, and (2), using her position as a 'star' in the highly caste-conscious NYT newsroom environment to put her byline on others' work.

Of course, she might get picked up by broadcast news, which has much lower standards than even the NYT or Boston Globe.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[i_dont_chat]

The way I see this:

Ms. Miller's editor knew everything that Ms. Miller knew. She would not have kept anything from him. She depended on the NYT to be her rock. ha!

Her editor encouraged her to put up the pretense of "protecting her source no matter what". And her editor likely promised that the NYT would stand behind her, give her good press, hold her job, help her with promoting her book, etc. Of course, this resulted in her spending 80+ days in jail, for nothing.

The purpose of this charade was to PROLONG the inevitable, the inevitable being that she did not have anything to substantiate her claim. This is simply ANOTHER attempt to discredit the Administration by making up false allegations. The paper promised Ms. Miller that they would stand by her -- and the sad thing is that she believed them.

[Rich_E]

In her first grand jury appearance Sept. 30 after being freed from prison for refusing to testify, Miller did not mention the meeting. She retrieved her notes about it only when prosecutors showed her White House visitor logs showing she had met with Libby in the Old Executive Office Building adjacent to the White House, said two lawyers, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the ongoing secrecy of the grand jury probe.

I can see her getting indicted because of Obstruction of Justice and perjury from this.. Fitzgerald is upset with her anyhow because of tipping the terrorists in that raid and he has already shown he doesn't mind putting journalists in jail.

Wouldn't THAT upset some liberals!!! She gets indicted but Rove and Libby get off!

[claudiustg]

---The evidence of that meeting has become important to the investigation because it indicates that Libby was passing information to reporters about Plame well before her husband went public with accusations that the Bush administration had twisted pre-war intelligence on Iraq.---

Why would they do that? There was nothing to get revenge about at that time. I don't get it.

[NormsRevenge]

Posted earlier here

Times: Miller May Have Misled Editors

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507190/posts

[Loyal Buckeye]

Judith Miller's boss says the New York Times reporter appears to have misled the newspaper about her role in the CIA leak controversy.

I think Keller should bring back Jayson Blair to do an in depth investigation.