Posted on 07/06/2005 5:23:42 PM PDT by YaYa123
As the war in Iraq has turned into a grueling occupation, the question of Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction persists. To investigate that question, there would seem to be no better-qualified reporter on Earth than Judith Miller of the New York Times.
Miller is a genuine expert on weapons of mass destruction or, in Washington parlance, WMD. She has written important books about Saddam Hussein and about germ warfare, and she shared a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for stories about al Qaeda. She has been a Times foreign correspondent based in Cairo, has traveled extensively on assignments, has covered the United Nations' WMD inspection program, and has experience covering the federal government dating back to the 1970s, when she was Washington bureau chief for The Progressive magazine.
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She's certainly painted here as a Bush tool.
Hmmm, quite a revealing piece. I wonder if she needs anything while in confinement that I might provide. What do you think about this? Matt Cooper is Mandy Gruenwald's husband. He's out and excuses are being made for him all over the place. Miller is off to jail. Is she just being "principled" or is that a "silly me" moment. This Administration's way is not punishment of those who are not on their side, much to the dismay of some, but Miller wouldn't fit the mold of an outright "enemy" anyway. I confess, I'm confused. BTW, our fair haired Craig Crawford was on Hardball with Andrea tonight and did nothing to change my opinion of him as one of the shallowest hacks in the biz. They must think he's useful for the suthrun accent. I'm carrying on too long.
ping for later reading
Well, supposedly Cooper's source had given him permission
to testify, perhaps there are TWO sources?
What blows me away, and it should give you pause, is that she's a New York Times reporter. Presumably she was preselected not to be friendly towards Republicans yet she either told the truth as far as she knew it about WMD or she's carrying water for the Administration. I find the latter hard to believe.
As for her going to jail, she's either protecting the administration or her source. I find the former hard to believe. This is very interesting to say the least.
"She's certainly painted here as a Bush tool."
It's how the extreme anti-Bushies deal with the "Bush Lied" meme.
The Dems, Wilson in the lead, in Jan. 2003 decided Bush's positives for truthfulness needed to be bloodied. They chose the SOTU's nuclear claim, at that time seemingly the weakest link. Remember, Wilson, all of them thought Iraq had WMD capabilities, just wasn't enough reason for war or that their use was not "imminent."
The "Bush Lied" meme was undermined by the Bipartisan Senate Intel report, showing the WMD suspicions were strong through the government, beliefs held for many years. That was a year ago and now conveniently forgotten.
Miller has a peculiar enchantment for them. All the intel agencies of the world thought Iraq had them, but no matter. What is most important for them is what the MSM says, the limits to their knowledge, and what they react to, is mostly dictated by MSM messages. Miller wrote a lot about the WMDs so she is "guilty" of lying like Bush.
And all she did was have a conversation about the topic.
The thing that fascinates me here is not the Iraqi reporting but her willingness to go to jail rather than give up her source in the Plame affair, especially when the other reporter has already rolled over. Why would she protect a source already outed unless it's a different source? Why would the MSM go to the trouble of tarring her as an administration hack? Something's going on here and it's pretty damn interesting.
She will be known as "the New York Times reporter who went to jail rather than reveal a source", but her name will be forgotten.
Yes the msm did fail. They were unable to blind a majority of the American public to the truth.
Hang down your head, Matt Cooper.
Surely, you jest. A bureau chief of the "The Progressive"?
This woman is an enigma to me. I'm going to have to follow her story a little more closely to find out what's going on.
Humming along!
What little this article has to do with Miller seems to be criticizing her for writing about weapons of mass destruction. Is that wrong? I mean, that was a news story, whether the weapons later turned up in Iraq or not.
Miller has written brilliantly for years about Saddam, well before 9/11. She wrote a book about Iraq and Saddam in the 80's with Laurie Mylroi.
I've been a bit disgusted by the assumptions about Miller on this forum because she is from the NYT by people who are totally unfamiliar with her history.
"To Lawrence O'Donnell: How Do You Know?
In your original post on the Plame/Cooper/Miller affair, you wrote that "Time magazine's emails will reveal that Karl Rove was Matt Cooper's source. I have known this for months but didn't want to say it at a time that would risk me getting dragged into the grand jury."
So, how did you know that? Did someone at Time tell you? Your words suggest that you knew the contents of internal Time emails, which could mean that someone inside Time, which was refusing to give information to a federal grand jury investigating a criminal case, was at the same time sharing that information with people outside Time, namely you.
No judge or prosecutor would look kindly on that. Have you been contacted by the prosecutor or the court? More generally, as it concerns the Plamegate matter, shouldn't everyone in this conversation (except for O'Donnell, who might have inside information) admit that they don't know what they're talking about? Is Robert Novak "skating" through the case, as Alan Dershowitz suggests? Who knows, other than the direct participants? Are Cooper and Miller shielding top administration officials? Who knows, other than the direct participants? So far, it's all a mystery.
And by the way, isn't this an admirable case of grand jury secrecy rules actually working? Isn't this we're-all-in-the-dark situation exactly what Ken Starr's critics wished for back in 1998?"
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