Miller-N.Y. Times Spat Goes Public

AP ^ | 22 October 2005 | Pete Yost

[YaYa123]

WASHINGTON (AP) - In the latest fallout from the CIA leak investigation, reporter Judith Miller and The New York Times are engaging in a very public fight about her seeming lack of candor in the case.

In a memo to the staff, Executive Editor Bill Keller says Miller "seems to have misled" the newspaper's Washington bureau chief, Phil Taubman, who said Miller told him in the fall of 2003 that she was not one of the recipients of a leak about the identity of covert CIA officer Valerie Plame.

Miller says Keller's criticism is "seriously inaccurate."

"I certainly never meant to mislead Phil, nor did I mislead him," Miller was quoted as saying in a Times story Saturday.

[YaYa123]

Yost's column yesterday wasn't enough. "Hit her a lick, hit her a lick, harder harder"

Yost writes: "Her stories pointing to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq helped clear a path for the administration's arguments in favor of going to war. No weapons of mass destruction have been found, and Keller said he regretted waiting a year before confronting problems with Miller's reporting."

[OldFriend]

Maureen Dowd-y doesn't want Miller back at her old job.

Meaning it's Trump time.......YOU'RE FIRED

[Mr_Moonlight]

This is turning into a "MAN BITES DOG" story

[Williams]

Has zero to do with the leak, this is all left wing nonsense about the WMD's. I guess this reporter was supposed to figure out what the entire world didn't know?

[samadams2000]

R-U-S-S-E-R-T

[nopardons]

bttt

[Paladin2]

Which is it? Is she a reporter or a journalist? Does she submit reports and articles or "stories"?

For all the learnin' of the NYT editors, I'd suggest that they review their English usage and become consistent and correct.

[Cougar66]

more dirt on top of their box.

[i_dont_chat]

Keller wrote that if he had known of Miller's "entanglement" with Libby, he might have been more willing to explore compromises with the prosecutor who was trying to get her testimony for the criminal investigation into the leak of Plame's identity.

What does this mean? More double-speak?

How does the NYT (Keller) get involved with compromising with the prosecutor? It was Keller/NYT who was encouraging Miller to "protect her sources" and go to jail to do so. (Of course it was Miller's decision -- but the paper encouraged her.)

We know, now, that it was Miller's testimony (after 80+ days in jail) that it wasn't Libby who gave her the name; in fact, she claims she cannot remember who gave her the name!

Of course, that makes perfect sense, that she would sit in jail for 80+ days to protect someone who can't remember! Right!

She went to jail because she was told to by her employer. And of course there was some enticement, book deal, etc.

I hope all of the biased journalists are taking note. They compromise their ethics for their editors; then they are discredited and discarded if the scenario to smear the Administration doesn't pan out!

[evad]

lack of candor

LOL..is that what they call it now?

Kinda like "factually challenged".

[BackInBlack]

Absolutely -- there's no way Miller doesn't remember who told her. She says stuff like, "After a year and a half, it's so hard to remember..." But surely she'd remember after a week or two -- the point at which the Novak story came out at caused a big stir. And once that story came out, how could she forget? Not possible.

[evad]

She went to jail because she was told to by her employer.

Maybe, but more likely she went to jail because there is no source.

That's the beauty of anynomous sources, you can attribute anything to them you want...until you get caught.

[YaYa123]

I haven't read Dowd in ages! Life is better that way.

[Enchante]

Add to Keller's most curious comments the fact that the NY Times is openly abandoning its formerly star reporter (Maureen Dowd had the knife out today and plunged it into Judy Miller's back) and the comment from Miller's lawyer (Bennet) that she went to jail 'MOSTLY' to protect the (alleged) principle of confidentiality of sources and we have all sorts of possibilities for what Miller's 'entanglement' with Libby might be:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1507192/posts?page=42#31

The great journalistic heroine, who the NY Times editors are now throwing overboard, had some reason(s) other than protecting confidentiality of sources to go to jail rather than testify. Here own lawyer says so. There IS more to this story, as so many of us have suspected, and whatever her 'entanglement' (interesting word for her Exec. Editor to use now for talking about her contact with a source she barely knew) might be, it goes beyond simply standing on journalistic principle of not revealing confidential sources.......

[GOPJ]

Which is it? Is she a reporter or a journalist? Does she submit reports and articles or "stories"?

More like fairy tales...

[USS Alaska]

How about if the source was slimey joe wilson, hisself? She probably forgot who told her about his wife {as he slipped her the inside information}.

I've read blogs that claim the slimey joe used to brag at cocktail {ever wonder about the origin of that term} parties, that he was married to a cia agent. Don't know if it's true, but you would think that the special prosecuter would want to know. Naahhhhhhh.

[Reactionary]

Another installment of liberal liars and the lying lies they tell.

It won't stop the next breathless idiocy from Matthews or the Old Gray Whore, though. You can count on that.

[chudogg]

Her stories pointing to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq

I wonder who the sources for these articles are from...and what agency they worked for and what office would be working on WMD information?

[hsalaw]

Yost writes: "Her stories pointing to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq helped clear a path for the administration's arguments in favor of going to war."

Sure. The administration was breathlessly waiting until they read the NYT before deciding what to do about Iraq. The NYT thinks pretty highly of itself and its influence, doesn't it?

[hsalaw]

"Her stories pointing to the presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
I wonder who the sources for these articles are from...and what agency they worked for and what office would be working on WMD information?"

Excellent point.