Jailbird Judith Miller
Over at Powerline are original documents -- along with the kind of high quality analysis that the MSM could only hope to emulate.
Along with their theories I'd like to posit this one -- that Judy Miller may have wanted to make sure her testimony to the grand jury would be limited to her conversations with Lewis Libby because, perhaps, she is the one who told Mr. Novak (or Libby, or others) about Valerie Plame's job at the CIA.
Here's an interesting quote from a story in The Washington Post:
The prosecutor would narrow his questions to Libby, which he had not been willing to do when Abrams approached him about the idea last year.
Of course, Ms. Miller couldn't be forced to testify about it if she were the one who had given away the supposedly "covert" identity of Ms. Plame -- or else she couldn't be prosecuted if she were forced to testify and her admission constituted a crime. But couldn't it be that she didn't want the embarassment of being the one who purveyed the Plame information, especially in light of her alleged incompetence and overreliance on sources in reportin on WMD in Iraq?
Much better to be a media martyr than a professional embarassment, perhaps.
Along with their theories I'd like to posit this one -- that Judy Miller may have wanted to make sure her testimony to the grand jury would be limited to her conversations with Lewis Libby because, perhaps, she is the one who told Mr. Novak (or Libby, or others) about Valerie Plame's job at the CIA.
Here's an interesting quote from a story in The Washington Post:
The prosecutor would narrow his questions to Libby, which he had not been willing to do when Abrams approached him about the idea last year.
Of course, Ms. Miller couldn't be forced to testify about it if she were the one who had given away the supposedly "covert" identity of Ms. Plame -- or else she couldn't be prosecuted if she were forced to testify and her admission constituted a crime. But couldn't it be that she didn't want the embarassment of being the one who purveyed the Plame information, especially in light of her alleged incompetence and overreliance on sources in reportin on WMD in Iraq?
Much better to be a media martyr than a professional embarassment, perhaps.
posted by LadybugUSA at 12:48 PM
1 Comments:
Interesting you should be bashing Judy Miller since it was her just plain wrong conclusions on WMD her naive reliance on notoriously unreliable Ahmad Chalabi that ruined her journalistic reputation. Many think this was what made her an either witting or unwitting pawn of the Bush Administration. Her stint in jail was either to protect them or an attempt to revive her fallen credibility. Either way I agree she's an embarrasment.
P.S. Has anybody read Scooter Libby's gushy letter to her in Jail? "Aspen in the winter and roots and clusters"..?? It is either code worthy of John LeCarre or just plain weird. Irregardless, her relationship with him is clearly akin to Novak's relationship with Rove. It's all uncomfortably cozy and full of intrigue and smokey backrooms. I'm sure we'll never get the full story.
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