Miller Brouhaha (journalistic history of Judith Miller..must read)

American Journalism Review ^ | August/September 2003 | Charles Layton

[right right]

Maybe she doesn't have a source. She may be faced with lying to a Grand Jury or being exposed. Maybe there was no release from her source because there wasn't one. She just got caught jumping on the wagon because it was just so obvious what had happened. The same resaoning Damn Rat-her used. She does work for the NYT which is known for that kind of stuff.

[Arkie2]

Interesting theory but she's been an administration supporter on the war as far as I can tell. That leads me to believe she's protecting a very high administration source. Just a theory.

[Wil H]

She's certainly painted here as a Bush tool.

You are not suggesting she's in jail to protect Karl Rove, are you?..LOL I suspect John Kerry might be nearer the mark.......

[altura]

I know that incredibly nasty Neal Gabler hates her.

That's good enough for me.

[OkiMusashi]

Kinda makes ya wonder if Plame and Miller have ever met. They both share the same interests.

[YaYa123]

Here's more on Gabler

http://www.truthout.org/docs_04/102504E.shtml

"Karl Rove: America's Mullah
By Neal Gabler
The Los Angeles Times
Sunday 24 October 2004

This election is about Rovism, and the outcome threatens to transform the U.S. into an ironfisted theocracy.
Neal Gabler, a senior fellow at the Norman Lear Center at USC Annenberg, is author of "Life the Movie: How Entertainment Conquered Reality." "

[YaYa123]

"Kinda makes ya wonder if Plame and Miller have ever met"

OkiMusashi, that's such an interesting question! Miller would no doubt have known WMD specialists in the Pentagon, State Dept, and CIA. But if we are to believe Joe Wilson and his msm comrades, Miller couldn't have known Plame. Remember, Plame worked in deep cover. {snicker, snicker}

cyncooper, do you know how or why Fitzgerald became interested in Judith Miller? It's late, maybe I'm forgetting stuff, but I don't think we've ever read Judith Miller describing her sources as "government officials" or anything else. We don't know anything about the source(s) she's protecting, do we?

Except, we can assume Miller's source is not Karl Rove.

For the last few days I've thought Miller might be protecting another reporter, but that was wishful thinking.

[YaYa123]

A new day, and the first attention grabber for me is:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/12/AR2005071201402.html


",,,,Miller was not protecting a classic whistle-blower bent on exposing wrongdoing, Stone said, but rather officials who were seeking to discredit Wilson. "In this context, you're talking about people who were violating the law and manipulating the press," he said.
Jonathan Turley, a George Washington University law professor, said that "with all the reporters who found ways around this, there was the impression that the New York Times was spoiling for a fight." But he added that there is no way to know for sure.

Turley said he found it "strange" that Miller and her attorney have said nothing about seeking a personal waiver from her source or sources. "That seemed to me a step they could have taken," he said....."

[YaYa123]

The following is from Eleanor Clift:

"But for those who have followed Miller’s work, there is poetic justice in her having to defend the same cast of characters who likely fed her all that bogus information about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq"


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8555465/site/newsweek/page/2/

[cyncooper]

cyncooper, do you know how or why Fitzgerald became interested in Judith Miller?

I only know she was subpoened on August 12 and August 14 of 2004. I'll guess the source (identified as a "specified government official") told the grand jury that he spoke with her.

[cyncooper]

Thanks for the Howie Kurtz dreck.

I am sick of the reporters and their "coerced waivers" story.

The media has tried to portray the WH as recalcitrant when the reality is they were open and cooperative and still we get a portrait painted that they are "coercing" their people.

Beam me up.

And this:

Cooper agreed to testify after announcing that his source had personally released him from his promise of anonymity. Miller has steadfastly refused to testify.

More deceit. We learned yesterday that the "personally released" was Cooper having his lawyer call Rove's lawyer (not the other way around) and merely confirming the existing waiver that had been signed over a year before really meant what it said.

Color me disgusted. Today's the day Cooper goes to testify.

[OkiMusashi]

Miller is protecting Plame. Like, how many WMD experts are there in the country? There can't be THAT many of 'em. If Miller has made the rounds gathering up WMD information from "the experts", then I wouldn't be surprised if she has run into Plame.

It'll be funny if it turns out that Plame spilled the beans about her job at the CIA to a reporter and then her husband, Joe, filled in the blanks by being the first person in the world to announce that she was a covert agent(once upon a time).

This story has great comic potiental.

[SERKIT]

There’s an important difference in reportorial style between Miller and her colleagues. Risen and Bergman are diggers, excavating documents and sources hidden deep in the bureaucracy. Miller, on the other hand, relies on her well-placed, carefully tended-to connections to nab her stories. In February, on the public-radio show “The Connection,” she said, “My job was not to collect information and analyze it independently as an intelligence agency; my job was to tell readers of the New York Times, as best as I could figure out, what people inside the governments, who had very high security clearances, who were not supposed to talk to me, were saying to one another about what they thought Iraq had and did not have in the area of weapons of mass destruction.”

My emphasis added. Miller-Plame-Wilson connections?

See: http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/news/media/features/9226/index2.html