Counterpunch - Miller Time

[Starfury]

Nice little article by Jack Random trying to keep things in perspective.


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Let Judy Miller rot in jail until she comes out with the truth. How dare she hide behind journalistic privilege, as Nixon hid behind executive privilege? How dare she portray the victim of her own integrity? Where was her integrity when she passed blatant White House war propaganda to an unsuspecting public? This is not some maverick reporter. She is an important ally of the Bush warlords.

It is increasingly clear that what Judy Miller and the New York Times are hiding beneath a cloak of journalistic martyrdom is far more damning than the Karl Rove connection <4>.

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Like Watergate, Iran-Contra and beyond, here is a conspiracy of such magnitude it hobbles the mind and renders honest reporting the stuff of fiction. The curse in this web of deception, this grand illusion, this world of electronic imagery in which nothing palpable is perceived as real, is to be a visionary.

Is it more frightening to think that our elected leaders are informed or that they are not?

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http://www.counterpunch.org/random07152005.html

[ewagner]

1. Powerful, well-written article

and buried in it is a message of hope.

Somewhere there exists a thread that has broken from the pattern of lies and deception. Find that thread, give it a pull and it all unravels, leaving the Emperor naked and exposed. The greatest surprise of all is that it is not George W. Bush.


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The only effective medicine for the madness of illusion is the truth and the truth can only be revealed when the layers of deception are stripped away. The shill game is in process. Smoke is pouring from the bowels of the White House. Mirrors are in place and the hand of Karl Rove is working its majestic wonders. Do not allow the Bolton memos, the Downing Street memos, or the Judy Miller file to fade away. The thread is there, waiting to be pulled. Find it, pull hard, and do not stop pulling until the whole is laid bare.

[pacalo]

4. Wouldn't it be nice if those who are most angered in the CIA

were pulling that thread behind the scenes?

And I was wondering if any of those aspects - Bolton, the DSM - would factor into the case Fitzgerald is building. I have to hope Fitzgerald is looking at the big picture.

[DemInDistress]

2. Why wasn't judy given the 'McDougall treatment

Remember Susan,she was "perp walked,in handcuffs and leg irons" totallly humilitating experience cause she wouldn't talk"..But not judy the traitor she was limmoed to jail..Yes she can rot in jail and I hpoe its for more than the 4 months remaining on the Grand Jury

[Oversea Visitor]

3. Me think

Judy now fair game for all the spooks hehe