Miller denied access to her notes to her fellow Timesmen who wrote this account. She may as well have been interviewed by Britt Hume.
Posted by Sonoma at October 15, 2005 04:00 PM
Honey, it that a helicopter I hear on the White House lawn?
Yes and real journalist like Walter "A-17" Pincus.
I read she likes to be called "Little Ms. Run Amok" now.
Still want to know how the notebook with Valerie Flame's name in it came to discovered after her first testimony..no clear answer about that issue.
Posted by emal at October 15, 2005 04:08 PMLittle Miss Judy Miller has had her 15 minutes worth of fame. Five years from now nobody will quite remember who she was.
Posted by Judith at October 15, 2005 04:18 PM
There's only one way the Repukes can save this situation for 2008:
Cheney feels the big one coming on and resigns; frat boy appoints McCain as VP; frat boy catches the next helicopter out (it's brush time back at the ranch, ya know).
Happy Trails,
Miss Laura
P.S.: I'm gonna dump him too.
Posted by Miss Laura at October 15, 2005 04:23 PMMiller is typical of a modern reporter. NYT is full of them. My favorite target for this is Healy, who used to work for the Boston Globe but got promoted to the sinking flagship. The bottom line is that these people take intentionally misleading PR and adopt uncritically. The Republicans had figured it out and used it to their advantage until Katrina. Once a face was put to the lie (Brownie), all hell broke loose.
It is possible that this is exactly what Miller realized and took the opportunity to weasel her way out of jail. She now had a scapegoat (which she had all along, but would never mention as long as his armor had no chinks in it). She now could have been exposed as the last shill (of course, she's not the last by any stretch of imagination, but she was at risk of losing her tag of independence). And she could have her $1 million+ book deal go down the drain if the indictments came out despite her refusal to talk. In other words, she made a calculated business move.
And the "professional journalist" morons want to give her an award for embarassing the entire profession.
Posted by buck turgidson at October 15, 2005 04:47 PMthe long-awaited “Come to Jesus” account by Judy Kneepads of her role in Plamegate
For the record, I am not happy.
-JC
For many of us, other than the British paper, The Guardian (which for awhile appeared to have had at least two sources leaking for the paper), the Knight Ridder Washington bureau was the first major news outlet that seemed to get a handle on the WMD story. As I recall, they attributed their success to the fact that they were mostly shut out by top administration figures from interviews, etc., but that still left career people high enough to know what they were talking about; in other words, the kind of people, whether liberal or conservative, who consider themselves driven by the facts.
Posted by Craig at October 15, 2005 11:36 PMreminds me of the callow response that jim lehrer once gave to a similar question:
"... i guess we (journalists) just weren't smart enough"
that it can sink to this level.
Posted by pointedhead at October 16, 2005 12:34 PMThe more I know about Judith Miller, the more I understand why Fitzgerald sent her to jail. I believe in journalistic freedoms to protect their sources but Miller is disigenuous to say the least.
Posted by Graham at October 17, 2005 01:45 PM