Miller: Went to jail for 'the public's right to know'

[NNN0LHI]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/10/05/miller.dobbs/

(CNN) -- "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, spent 85 days in jail protecting her confidential source in the White House CIA leak case. She was also fighting for the right to provide narrow testimony before a federal grand jury investigating that leak.

Less than a week after her release from jail and her appearance in federal court, she joined CNN's Lou Dobbs.

<snip>DOBBS: There are those liberals who've commented here, obviously in public, and I'm sure to you, saying, you know, she is protecting a conservative White House and really is not protecting sources, or upholding the public's right to know by doing so. She's really providing benefits to the conservative -- this from the liberals -- the conservative enemy. How does that make you feel? How do you respond?

MILLER: Well, they wrote lots of postcards, saying I should testify, and why wasn't I testifying? Why was I covering for these people? You know, Lou, I knew and I know they weren't covering for anybody. I was protecting the confidentiality of the source to whom I had given my word. I was keeping my word. And until I knew that that source genuinely wanted me to testify, and I heard that from him, I was willing to sit in jail. I didn't want to be in jail, but I knew that the principle of confidentiality was so important that I had to, because if people can't trust us to come to us to tell us the things that government and powerful corporations don't want us to know, we're dead in the water. The public won't know. That's why I was sitting in jail. For the public's right to know.

DOBBS: And all of us in this craft respect you immensely and are deeply grateful to you for so doing. It's an immense sacrifice. The idea that you would not accept a blanket waiver from Scooter Libby.

MILLER: Right, I would not.

DOBBS: I am dismayed that this investigation has taken this long without result. And the only person who's paid a penalty to this point is you.

[ewagner]

1. Principle of confidentiality

to a source she couldn't remember?

c'mon....Judith we're not THAT STUPID...

[Marnieworld]

5. she can't remember the source but

she went to jail until scooter libby waived confidentiality. Whaaaaa?

[kestrel91316]

2. The right to know WHAT?

The names of all our CIA agents??
The names of all our CIA front companies?
The nature of our undercover operations designed to deter illegal WMD trade?
Classified information whose release sets back our anti-WMD program decades??

Ok. I get it.

Nevermind that if Americans know something, our enemies will know it, too.

[tularetom]

3. Bwahahahaha public's right to know my ass

She either went to jail for the book deal she knew it would generate or because she feared the consequences of ratting out Libby or whoever more than she feared imprisonment (stay off of small planes Judy). But she didn't give a rats ass about the public right to know or she would have exposed all the pre war WMD bullshit instead of spreading it. And Dobbs is destroying what little credibilty he has left by defending her.

[Eric J in MN]

4. I have one word for Judith Miller.

Retire.

[nookiemonster]

8. Very good, and the everpopular,

YOU'RE DONE

[longship]

6. To know what????

The right to know that the * administration lied us into a fucking war????

Is that what Juicy Miller went to jail for?

Or how about the right to know who exposed an entire covert network dedicated to finding WMDs, specifically nukes????

Is that what Juicy Miller went to jail for?

Or how about the right to know how the * administration is manipulating the news by planting news stories with corrupt journalists????

Is that what Juicy Miller went to jail for?

Just maybe Juicy Miller went to jail to cover up her complicity in all three of the above scandalous activities.

Pulitzer Prize my ass. They ought to award her life in prison with no chance of parole.

[Jose Diablo]

7. That pompous broad makes me want to

:puke:

[NNN0LHI]

9. DOBBS: There are those liberals who've commented...

Yea its all them damn liberals fault isn't it Lou? Lou is such a good egg. Isn't he?

Don