Posted on 10/22/2005 1:58:58 PM PDT by 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.
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Mine does too. I've really given up trying to predict where all this is going and will just wait for events to unfold over the next week. But I will state that something much bigger is going down under the surface and we are just seeing a few superficial manefestations of that reality.
cardinal4 wrote: any truth to the rumor that one of Wilson's other wives was a French agent?
Yes, absolutely. His second wife from 1986 to 1998, Jacqueline, had served the French embassy in Burundi as a “cultural counselor" (a function often used as a cover by French intelligence). In addition, I'll bet not many people know that uranium miningin Niger is controlled by a French state-owned mining company, COGEMA.
This was posted by Freeper Fedora. Its a long read but its simply awesome.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1256475/posts
I hope ol Fitz knows. This whole thing has become a circus..
I certainly hope you are correct. All the people involved in this plot -- domestic and foreign, overt and covert -- need to go down...HARD!
Unfortunately, I don't think that's going to happen here. There are public sacrifices that happen to the losers. And the winners get to stay in the shadows.
IMO we are seeing a cataclysmic power struggle below the surface here. And only the politically dead will bob to the surface where we can see them.
They are attempting to put Miller in the President's camp. Watch out.
Agreed. The agency has a built-in advantage: they can leak from the sidelines.
Who'd a thunk we'd ever see the Rats rooting for the CIA and its culture of secrecy?
And, if the Rats and the MediaCrats get their wish, the agency will have a stronger grip than ever on our foreign policy. Who's gonna challenge them if indictments come out of this?
One in particular...
By the same token, some identifiable bodies bobbing to the surface would also suggest there has been a massive fishkill in certain polluted pools...
The problem is, IMO, no one wants to take the necessary steps to get the snakeheads out of that thar pond.
Oops, someone's at the door, I think it's the metaphor police...
"Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf by Laurie Mylroie, Judith Miller "
I also seem to remember that she co-authored a book that was rather supportive of Ken Starr but I could be wrong about that (I have it but can't lay my hands on it).
One has to wonder about an agency that hires someone like Plame.
"Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf by Laurie Mylroie, Judith Miller "
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William Broad, Judith Miller, Stephen Engelberg
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Very plausible..actually likely!
No more. And the liberals are piling on. They're worried about something.
My gut feeling is that they're worried that what will become known is that Plame and others in the CIA put together an illegal operation to discredit Bush - with the help of the New York Times.
Miller wrote a book about the CIA. My bet is that her source is the Agency. It hates this administration.
I agree with you, I can't really put it all together any more than I could put Miller's article all together. He says he didn't know Miller was at the receiving end of a whisper campaign...so he thinks she went to jail only over the issue of the other sources that Fitzgerald gave her a pass on? And are these other sources related to the Islamic charity that was tipped off or some other trouble the NYTs finds itself in?
Initially I thought that the NYTs was trying to regain the credibility they believe they lost in their WMD reporting. But I'm not so sure it's just that. If we were watching a court case, this would be the moment when the defense team declares their witness hostile.
That's about a year after the initial meetings between Miller and Libby, so I guess that subpoena is how Keller "learned from the special counsel".
But, now it seems to me that Keller is more on the hook than ever. He said: "I wish that when I learned Judy Miller had been subpoenaed as a witness in the leak investigation, I had sat her down for a thorough debriefing, and followed up with some reporting of my own...If I had known the details of Judy's engagement with Libby, I'd have been more careful in how the paper articulated its defense."
OK, if that's his explanation NOW, just what was he supposedly defending when he stood behind Miller going to jail? He didn't ask who her source was but he stood behind the "principle" of protecting her source. It appears Keller is now defining the principle as: We'll protect our sources---depending on who it is.
Precisely.
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