CPJ Delegation, Including Brokaw, Visits Judith Miller -Editor & Publisher

[dooner]

CPJ Delegation, Including Brokaw, Visits Judith Miller
By E&P Staff
Published: July 30, 2005 10:30 PM ET

NEW YORK A delegation from the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has met with jailed New York Times reporter Judith Miller in the Alexandria Detention Center. "At the end of our 30-minute conversation," said former NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, "it was emphatically clear that she is absolutely convinced that she made the right decision and is prepared to stay the course."

Paul Steiger, CPJ chairman and Wall Street Journal managing editor, headed the delegation, which included Brokaw and CPJ Executive Director Ann Cooper. The group talked with Miller for a half hour though a clear plastic partition. She said she has been able to go outside just twice in three weeks.

Miller wore a dark green prison uniform with "PRISONER" written in capital letters on the back. While she praised the professionalism of the detention center staff, she said the crowded facility is subjected to random lockdowns for security reasons.

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[still_one]

1. right decision? TREASON

[bluestateguy]

2. She can leave that jail cell anytime she wants to

All she has to do is obey the law, comply with the court order and fess up. It's really very simple.

All this martyr bullshit is falling on my deaf ears.

Do these journalists have the same sympathy for some Mexican kid in Texas who gets thrown in jail for 4 years for simply possessing a little bag of cocaine, even though he committed no violent crime?

I didn't think so.

[Fridays Child]

3. May these days be only the first of many years in prison for her.

If she is protecting herself or anyone else from criminal charges.

[EFerrari]

4. The public at large is safer with this propagandist in prison.

No sympathy for you, Judy.

[flordehinojos]

5. hey, she must be in a really plush,plush,plush[jail?] cell,or country club

vacation spot...wonder which? she for sure is not getting the same treatment that Susan McDougal got when was sent to jail during the Clinton impeachment trial.

[dooner]

8. Actually, I think it's the county jail

they deliberately put her somewhere unpleasant. She tried to get \Martha Stewart's country club, but the judge refused. She is probably rather uncomfortable.

I was thinking that the Brokaw/WSJ visit was to help her morale, and make sure she didn't break down and spill the beans!

[Amonester]

12. Maybe she's much too scared to spill the beans...

CBS News Correspondent Jim Stewart reports Miller said: "I won't testify. The risks are too great. The government is too powerful."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/07/07/national/main707048.shtml

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Seems like she could really be scared to end up 'suicided' in that report (if it's true...). So maybe she's willing to 'play the game' as long as she can? But that would be 'cowardice' to the core, which is absent of her character, of course... /sarcasm.

Nice suit, though! :evilgrin:

[Benhurst]

6. Good for Tom Brokaw. Now he can

go home, fix himself a strong drink, and spend the rest of the evening blubbering about "The Greatest Generation."

[donsu]

7. yes, Brokaw should go home and stay there

nt

[Cocoa]

9. Tom Brokaw thinks he's an elder statesman

:eyes:

[IndianaGreen]

10. Good stuff about Judith Miller posted elsewhere in DU

Posted by starfury in the Editorials forum:

Huffington - Judy Miller: How Deep Do Her Connections Run?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x143224

And of course, we also have this from Roger Morris:

Published on Thursday, July 28, 2005 by CommonDreams.org
The Source Beyond Rove- Condoleezza Rice at the Center of the Plame Scandal
by Roger Morris

There may well be a ticking time-bomb in the Grand Jury investigation of the Plame leak that goes beyond anything we now envision. In earlier findings in cases of reporters refusing to testify, DC Circuit Judge, David Tatel, a distinguished jurist known for his devotion to civil liberties and especially press freedoms, had stoutly maintained a federal privilege for the media, shielding it from being compelled to testify except under the most exceptional conditions. But then later joining his colleagues in ordering Cooper and the New York Times’ Judith Miller to testify, Tatel reviewed extensive secret information from the prosecutor, devoted eight blacked-out pages of his judgment to the material, and concluded that the privilege he had upheld throughout his career as a lawyer and judge had to give way before "the gravity of the suspected crime." No other element of the scandal bodes so ill for the Bush regime.

There is also the intriguing relationship between John Bolton, the regime’s stymied appointee to the UN, and Judith Miller, the New York Times correspondent sent to jail for contempt in refusing to divulge her sources on Plame even for a story she never wrote. Bolton’s close relationship to Miller, in which many suspect the right-wing lobbyist handed the reporter much of the fraudulent accounts of Iraqi weaponry that ended up on the front page of the Times, may well have encompassed as well the passing of information from the INR memo on Plame, which Bolton saw before Powell or even Rice.

http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0728-25.htm

[BillZBubb]

11. All these fools fawning over a disinformation specialist

Miller is about as much a journalist as I am a basketball star (I shoot free throws WORSE THAN SHAQ!).

[wishlist]

13. Only injustice is that other Bushites who lied to start war aren't there

Press does not mention often enough that if the Bush Administration officials had all cooperated honestly with the leak investigation, she would not have had to go to jail, or at least not for just concealing her source.

[Jim Sagle]

14. The media is badly Bwokawed. How do we fix it?

:(