Posted on 05/21/2006 7:50:06 AM PDT by yoe
Judith Miller, The New York Times reporter at the center of the I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby case, reveals that she received advance word about a terrorist plot that turned out to be 9/11 - but the Times spiked the story.
Miller spent 85 days in jail before finally disclosing that Libby was the source who confirmed to her that Valerie Plame was a CIA operative.
Miller - who's no longer with the Times - never wrote a story about Plame. But she's more troubled by another story that didn't run - the one about 9/11.
Miller began investigating al-Qaida after the terrorist group's October 2000 suicide bombing of the USS Cole in the harbor of Aden, Yemen.
Over the weekend before July 4, 2001, there were strong indications that terrorists were planning to attack the U.S. or a major American target elsewhere, Miller said in an interview with Scott Malone and Rory O'Connor that appeared on the Web site NavySEALS.com.
The attack never materialized. But that weekend "I did manage to have a conversation with a source," she told the interviewers.
"The person told me that there was some concern about an intercept that had been picked up. The incident that had gotten everyone's attention was a conversation between two members of al-Qaida. And they had been talking to one another, supposedly expressing disappointment that the United States had not chosen to retaliate more seriously against what had happened to the Cole.
"One al-Qaida operative was overheard saying to the other, "Don't worry; we're planning something so big now that the U.S. will have to respond.'
"I was obviously floored by that information. I thought it was a very good story - the source was impeccable, the information was specific, tying al-Qaida operatives to, at least, knowledge of the attack on the Cole, and they were warning that something big was coming, to which the United States would have to respond. This struck me as a major Page 1-potential story."
However, when Miller met with her editor Stephen Engelberg, he was critical, noting that Miller didn't know who the operatives were, where they were overheard or what attack they were planning.
"At that point I realized I didn't have the whole story," Miller said. She continued to probe, but couldn't turn up enough information to satisfy Engelberg.
The story never ran. And two months later came al-Qaida's Sept. 11 attacks.
Engelberg, now managing editor of The Oregonian in Portland, told the Columbia Journalism Review: "More than once I've wondered what would have happened if we'd run the piece. A case can be made that it would have been alarmist and I just couldn't justify it, but you can't help but think maybe I made the wrong call."
Said Miller: "Sometimes in journalism you regret the stories you do; but most of the time you regret the ones that you didn't do."
The news of this preceded the election by years. I am aware that the Bush administration was held up by the Democrats at every opportunity, but the fact is that federal employees should have our nation's best interests at heart, not their party's.
Oh, that's right, she's got to "protect her sources."
The Shah wasn't a choir boy, you're right. But compared to what followed, he was a veritable political hero. I will forever blame Carter for the terrorism we have today, plus the decimation of the military (only partially restored by Reagan). If this country had deliberately sought out the worst possible person for President, they would have still chosen Carter. Even Clinton couldn't quite reach those depths, although Heaven knows, he tried.
WELDON REJECTS 9/11 COMMISSION CLAIM THEY NEVER HEARD OF "ABLE DANGER
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Yesterday the national news media began in-depth coverage of a story that is not new. In fact, I have been talking about it for some time. From 1998 to 2001, Army Intelligence and Special Operations Command spearheaded an effort called Able Danger that was intended to map out al Qaeda. According to individuals that were part of the project, Able Danger identified Mohammed Atta as a terrorist threat before 9/11. Team members believed that the Atta cell in Brooklyn should be subject to closer scrutiny, but somewhere along the food chain of Administration bureaucrats and lawyers, a decision was made in late 2000 against passing the information to the FBI.
"Sorry, I was being sarcastic."
I guess that would be "sarchasm."
A prop driven B-25, not a B-52. The B-25 is a 2 Engine medium bomber from WW 2, considerable smaller as well as carrying far less fuel then a modern Jet Liner. The fuel in a B-25 would also buring a less volitable fuel. The B-52 1st assigned to combat commands in 1961.
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http://www.fas.org/nuke/guide/usa/bomber/b-52.htm
A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962. Only the H model is still in the Air Force inventory and all are assigned to Air Combat Command. The first of 102 B-52H's was delivered to Strategic Air Command in May 1961. The H model can carry up to 20 air launched cruise missiles. In addition, it can carry the conventional cruise missile which was launched from B-52G models during Desert Storm.
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You might want to read the thread regarding the two Saudis boarding a school bus (not students of the school) this week in Florida and riding to the school. Liberal PC is going to get too many killed yet we continue to tolerate the PC pleas. The media is toying with we the people, in their efforts to get their preferred democrats back into power. And themedia and democraps don't really care how many Americans get killed in the process so long as it results in democrats back in power.
Thanks for the ping!
Assuming this story is true, the "cops" were probably her source in the first place.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1635606/posts
Who, what, where, when, how, why = STORY. A "journalist" should know that.
OTOH, since they seem to mostly babble a bunch of disconnected drivel for two or three paragraphs, before getting to even a semblance of a lead sentence anymore, I don't expect much from them.
I don't recall Bush making the failure to retaliate a major part of his campaign to go along with a promise of retaliation once he came to office. Everyone had their thumbs up their asses.
It isn't that she knew. It is she was too far ahead of the news cycle!
She sure does like attention.
The school bus story was amazing but I didn't read why the driver even allowed them on the bus>
Why did they want us to respond?
Just let another cell of saudi arabian terrorists attack us and see what Syria or Iran get!
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