[p23185]

The "leak" investigation that every liberal editorial board demanded has already sent one reporter to jail, and the damage is only going to get worse.

And the next leaker needs to be identified and a GJ convened for whomever leaked the CIA Black prisons in the Washington Post today.

[gpapa]

Dow Jones & Co., this newspaper's parent company, filed a motion late Wednesday requesting that the federal district court unseal eight pages of redacted information that Mr. Fitzgerald used to justify throwing Judith Miller of the New York Times in the slammer.

[Mike Darancette]

I hope Libby gets out of this OK. That said, this should be great sport.

[Kryptonite]

I think you're the FReeper that's made some cogent points about Libby being a media leak tool, and that Republicans shouldn't worry about his fate or that of the media.

This article concludes that Libby and the media are the two biggest losers. It supports your theory, IMO.

[Spaulding]

There is much more to this than we are seeing. I've seen no one note that Judith Miller was Laurie Mylroie's co-author of "Saddam Hussein and the Crisis in the Gulf." Mylroie, briefly, Clinton's (well chosen) expert on middle eastern affairs, was the one who wrote the book "A Study in Revenge", which anticipated 9/11. She has brilliantly described the battle we are now seeing between Bush and CIA/State in a brilliant book you can probably find on remainder stands called "Bush vs. the Beltway." Anyone who is a trusted friend of Mylroie is probably a friend of "ours". I suspect her silence was to protect others in the administration.

Mylroie, who taught at the Naval War College as well as Harvard, has probably devastated too many media "pundits" with the depth of her knowledge and merciless honesty to get much air time. Her analysis, in my opinion, provide rare glimpses of clarity about the middle east. Too bad Bush didn't engage Mylroie to explain The Middle East. He may have tried. CIA probably has a few other employees with which to set up critics, and would probably have made short work of Mylroie, given that the depth of her knowledge about the region probably includes much which they have classified (I will never forget having had my Scientific American confiscated by an Army G2 officer because of a klystron tube ad which we happened to use.)

I'm guessing that Miller was, at times, a Mylroie surrogate, providing real insight to NYT readers. I'm sure there were many who hated her for it. I'm guessing she wouldn't go along with providing the "unimpeachable" Fitzgerald the ammunition to go after someone else. She obviously can't talk about it, but the evidence is there. Her testimony did not contribute to the the Libby indictment, and she is probably protecting someone else who, like Libby, is doing a good job.

[Grampa Dave]

[TVenn]

From the article:

Rather than join this parade of masochism, we thought we'd try to speed things along, as well as end one of the remaining mysteries in the probe. That's why Dow Jones & Co., this newspaper's parent company, filed a motion late Wednesday requesting that the federal district court unseal eight pages of redacted information that Mr. Fitzgerald used to justify throwing Judith Miller of the New York Times in the slammer.

The pages were part of Judge David Tatel's concurring opinion in the ruling against Ms. Miller and Time magazine's Matthew Cooper. Judge Tatel said the eight pages showed that, with his "voluminous classified filings," Mr. Fitzgerald had "met his burden of demonstrating that the information [sought from the reporters] is both critical and unobtainable from any other source."

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Interesting. The eight pages of redacted information suggests there is more to this story than we have been told.

[timestax]

bttt

[FerdieMurphy]

The Score in the Race to Judgment at the White House

Clinton Democrats:

61 indictments or misdemeanor charges

33 convictions

14 imprisonments

7 independent counsel investigations

72 congressional witnesses pleading the Fifth Amendment

19 foreign witnesses who declined interviews by investigative bodies

17 witnesses fleeing the country to avoid testifying


Bush Republicans:

1 indictment, not even on the primary issue