Posted on 07/12/2005 2:21:01 PM PDT by rface
July 12 - The New York Times is only slightly to the right of Pravda in the eyes of the Bush White House, but ideological differences fade when there’s a principle at stake. Times reporter Judith Miller is in jail for refusing to reveal who she talked to for a story she never wrote, a stand that is both heroic and bizarre. [ puke!!! ]
Miller is protecting whoever leaked the identity of undercover CIA agent Valerie Plame to columnist Robert Novak from getting fingered by the special prosecutor looking into the matter. She’s not shielding sources who are shining sunlight into a dark corner of government. .... she appears to be giving cover to someone in the Bush administration who may have committed a crime.
It’s the journalistic equivalent of the ACLU rushing in to defend Rush Limbaugh against charges of drug abuse. [ snip ]
The two-year long investigation into the White House leak is having a chilling effect on the media and how reporters get information. [ snip ] ..... Cooper agreed to speak to the grand jury only after his source, identified by NEWSWEEK as Karl Rove, agreed at the eleventh hour to personally release him from his promised silence. (Although Rove was a Cooper source, there is no evidence that Rove told the reporter—or even knew—Plame's name or identified her as a covert operative.) It’s puzzling why Rove waited so long.
[ snip ]
It is a travesty that the only person going to jail didn’t even report on the story that is at the core of the investigation. ...... [ snip ].....there’s already talk of a book deal and lecture tour when she’s released. Thrust into the forefront of a pivotal media case, Miller is proving a worthy defendant.
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I didn't waste my time reading anything from this brain-dead old hag.
It’s the journalistic equivalent of the ACLU rushing in to defend Rush Limbaugh against charges of drug abuse.
WELL SAID: She is no more protecting Rove than I'm protecting Bill Clintoon.
"There's already talk of a book deal!!" Yeah. She's a regular Nelson Mandella.
If Joe Wilson wasn't so obsessed over book deals and movie rights, none of this would have ever happened.
Um, no. The New York Times is decidedly to the left of Pravda, which is at least a little bit nationalist.
Classic "shoot-the-messenger" situation. They already have their man, Rove. That's the one ought to be in jail.
I wonder if they put her in a real prison rather than a country club with bars and mixed her with the general population how long her convictions would last.
Anyone with a WWW site is a publisher and everyone could claim a nonexistent privilege - but to jail you go, Hi Ho, Hi Ho.
Maybe it's just been a long day, but why would Miller have info on who leaked to Novak? The other reporter (whose name escapes me at the moment) turned over notes of what Karl Rove said to him.
And I thought Novak himself testified before the grand jury?
How do we know she is protecting a Bush Administrator? I say she's defending someone from the left.
nick
This whole thing grows stupider by the second. Why does Miller go to jail to protect a source that signs a waiver saying he didn't need protection?
This whole thing is theatre to inflate a non issue into an issue. Millers biggest mistake was in thinking she would get a house arrest.
This whole thing grows stupider by the second. Why does Miller go to jail to protect a source that signs a waiver saying he didn't need protection?
This whole thing is theatre to inflate a non issue into an issue. Millers biggest mistake was in thinking she would get a house arrest.
I try to be open-minded enough to read dissenting views...but anything written by Eleanor Clift ranks right down there with Michael Moore.
It must be assigned to the automatically ignored category.
Eleanor Clift
Ri-i-i-i-ght...I think NOT!
If she is talking about Rove...he did not out a covert agent. Plame had not been covert for nine years as she was outed by Aldrich Ames prior to 1994 and then again by the Cubans. She was assigned a desk job as an analyst at that time.
The identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame was compromised twice before her name appeared in a news column that triggered a federal illegal-disclosure investigation, U.S. officials say.She would have had to have been covert in the last five years for Rove to have broken the law.Mrs. Plame's identity as an undercover CIA officer was first disclosed to Russia in the mid-1990s by a Moscow spy, said officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. In a second compromise, officials said a more recent inadvertent disclosure resulted in references to Mrs. Plame in confidential documents sent by the CIA to the U.S. Interests Section of the Swiss Embassy in Havana.
The documents were supposed to be sealed from the Cuban government, but intelligence officials said the Cubans read the classified material and learned the secrets contained in them, the officials said.
Karl Rove, agreed at the eleventh hour to personally release him from his promised silence. It’s puzzling why Rove waited so long.
Say what!?!?!?!? Rove signed the waiver a long time ago.
What a stupid be-yotch.
Perhaps it is Judith Miller herself she's protecting?
That picture must have been taken about 1950.
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