N.Y. Times 'frustrated' by Miller story

[hang a left]

N.Y. Times 'frustrated' by Miller story

SETH SUTEL

Associated Press

NEW YORK - Now that New York Times reporter Judith Miller has testified again in the investigation into the leak of a CIA operative's name, many are wondering when the newspaper will publish the detailed account it has promised on their own reporter's role in the case.

That story may yet have to wait: Even after her second round of grand jury testimony Wednesday, it remains unclear whether Miller's cooperation with the probe has finished. A spokesman for Patrick Fitzgerald, the special counsel who is leading the investigation, declined to comment.

Miller was freed on Sept. 29 after nearly three months in jail for refusing to reveal her source for information about the operative. That information never made it into a story.

She has been advised by her lawyers not to discuss her grand jury testimony until it has been completely finished, the Times's executive editor Bill Keller told Times employees in a memo sent Tuesday.

Miller was still under a contempt-of-court order and was "not yet clear of legal jeopardy," Keller said. "As we've told readers, once her obligations to the grand jury are fulfilled, we intend to write the most thorough story we can of her entanglement with the White House leak investigation."

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[cantstandbush]

1. In the end it will show that Miller lied and deceived even her allies.

She does not deserve the protection of journalistic privilege.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. You mean Judy's not going to go on Lou Dobbs tonight

and bat her eyelashes about how she's so misunderstood? That mean man Fitzgerald might put her in jail again.

[IndianaGreen]

3. Judy should have been fired for her WMD stories

and her relationship with Chalabi. The NY Times is as much a piece of trash as the NY Post, as least Murdoch's rag makes no pretensions of journalism like the Times does.

[Seansky]

4. entanglement is rather a negative msg...

[brentspeak]

5. If the Times fires her, then there's no headache for them

Simple as that. They know she gave the Times a big black eye with her WMD reporting. Why keep her?

[longship]

6. She was smiling, nearly beaming, when she walked out today.

Did she cut a deal? Did she turn?

The word entanglement in this context would be very worrying to any professional journalist. Could her status as a reporter be in serious jeopardy?

I predict:

1. Her testimony made her a investigation target.
   
2. She turned.
   
3. She will leave the NYT within a cloud of equivocation.

[DoYouEverWonder]

9. She doesn't look too happy in the pics I saw

and her lawyer looked really bad.

[longship]

10. Must've been file footage that I saw.

My bad.

[Changenow]

14. Beeming is right

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At least some of the time.

[goforit]

7. The NYT needs to step to the back of the line.

They should be the last publication to have rights to the story!!

Treasonous progandist not allowed!!!!

[applegrove]

8. I was a little nervous when they said they would publish all as soon

as she has testified. I can wait. So long as they do a great job of investigating.

[OKNancy]

11. Kick

[Wilms]

12. Raw Story: Concern pervades New York Times newsroom over Judith Miller

Concern pervades New York Times newsroom over Judith Miller

John Byrne

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Veteran New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s one-woman crusade to protect her White House source in a CIA leak inquiry has stirred passions among Times staffers not seen since the Jayson Blair scandal, when the unsuspecting paper ran dozens of fictionalized articles.

Conversations with nearly a dozen Times reporters revealed a scarred landscape of discontent. Few reporters were willing to go on the record, but none who spoke with RAW STORY said they supported Miller. Many voiced worries that the paper’s editor, Bill Keller, was sacrificing his own integrity to protect her.

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At least two reporters say they’ve heard that Miller plans to resign after the paper runs their examination, which most expect Sunday. According to the Huffington Post, Miller has inked a $1.2 million deal for a tell-all expose.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Unease_pervades_New_York_Times_newsroom_1014.html

[longship]

13. We ought to send this to SPJ.

This is the woman to whom they give a First Amendment award.