Miller's Big Secret

[papau]

The real issue: Asking Miller about her other sources under oath.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/linkset/2005/04/11/LI2005041100879.html

Miller's Big Secret
by Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
September 30, 2005

<snip> So what was Miller doing in jail? Was it all just a misunderstanding? The most charitable explanation for Miller is that she somehow concluded that Libby wanted her to keep quiet, even while he was publicly -- and privately -- saying otherwise. The least charitable explanation is that going to jail was Miller's way of transforming herself from a journalistic outcast (based on her gullible pre-war reporting) into a much-celebrated hero of press freedom.

(the official statements from Miller, her editor and her publisher. http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001219289 )

<snip>David Johnston and Douglas Jehl write in the Times http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/politics/30COURT.html?pagewanted=all : "For more than a year, Fitzgerald has sought testimony from Ms. Miller about conversations she had with Mr. Libby. Her willingness to testify now was in part based on personal assurances given by Mr. Libby this month that he had no objection to her discussing their conversations with the grand jury, according to those officials briefed on the case."... "Much about Ms. Miler's role remains unclear."

Susan Schmidt and Jim VandeHei write in The Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/29/AR2005092901974.html that Libby's lawyer said that he had no idea until he was contacted by Miller's lawyer several weeks ago that Miller thought she had gone to jail for his client.... "According to a source familiar with Libby's account of his conversations with Miller in July 2003, the subject of Wilson's wife came up on two occasions. In the first, on July 8, Miller met with Libby to interview him about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, the source said. <snip>

John Solomon writes in the Associated Press http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050930/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/cia_leak_investigation_14
reminding us: "Until a few months ago, the White House maintained for nearly two years that Libby and presidential aide Karl Rove were NOT involved in leaking the identity of Valerie Plame, whose husband had publicly suggested that the Bush administration twisted intelligence in the run up to the war in Iraq."

Joe Hagan and John D. McKinnon write in the Wall Street Journal http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB112804032860956303-IJjeoNjlaZ4n56vZHmJbqWIm4,00.html : "Reached last night, Arthur Sulzberger, Jr., publisher of the Times, said, 'I can confirm that Judy Miller is out.' He declined to elaborate except to say the reporter was 'enjoying a steak at dinner, which you are interrupting.' "
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[Old and In the Way]

1. Baloney.

"Libby's lawyer said that he had no idea until he was contacted by Miller's lawyer several weeks ago that Miller thought she had gone to jail for his client"........no idea?

And I suppose Judy was too much of a shrinking violet to as Libby for the waiver. Somehow, I think she was helping the WH by stalling the investigation while they covered their tracks or got their stories straight.

[spindrifter]

2. J.M. is very much WMD in her

writing, so much so that the NYT has apologized for stories they have printed that she wrote. So why is she converting to the shock and awe look over who got Joe Wilson tickets to Niger? What do we know--or can we find out--about her connection with Wilson--I think that may actually have more import than whatever she may have heard from Sco*ter-boy.

[teryang]

3. After she received an email from David Kelly who'd she call?

her position at the times is just a front.

[papau]

4. "her position at the times is just a front" - I agree - but when the CIA

asks you to place an asset, and you agree, you agree to go down with the ship if it blows up.

The NY Times will never admit anything.