Miller: Her claim that she didn't crack now seems, well ... like a crock.

[understandinglife]

Josh Miller draws attention to yet another Judith Miller 'inconsistency.' To wit:

Letter shows Cheney aide was prodded in leak probe

Sat Oct 8, 2005 12:53 PM ET

By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney got a push from a prosecutor before telling New York Times reporter Judith Miller that he wanted her to testify in a probe into the outing of a CIA operative whose diplomat husband was an Iraq-war critic.

The prosecutor's encouragement, in a letter obtained by Reuters, has prompted some lawyers in the case to question whether Cheney's aide was acting completely voluntarily when he gave Miller the confidentiality waiver she had insisted on.

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Link:
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-08T165159Z_01_EIC771654_RTRUKOC_0_US-BUSH-LEAK.xml&archived=False

As Josh Marshall notes:

One can't really blame Fitzgerald. It's the prosecutors job after all to squeeze these guys and get all the information he can using the looming threat of indictment to secure as much assistance as possible.

So Fitzgerald you can understand. And Libby too. After all, by all accounts he's looking at a felony indictment coming down the pike. So you try to be as helpful as you can to the guy who has your fate in his hands.

But what about Miller? Her claim that she didn't crack now seems, well ... like a crock. This 'voluntary' doesn't seem any different from the first 'voluntary'. And 'voluntary' has, of course, a withered meaning when it's the prosecutor calling for volunteers.

It seems a lot more like she just got tired of sitting in jail. Or, some other jeopardy not yet spelled out made her give up the game.

Link:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/week_2005_10_02.php#006717

And, then she starts finding things around the house .... Hey Judy, get a clue -- just guess how many folk are listening to and watching every frigging thing you've been doing for quite some time now .....


Peace.

[annagull]

1. Judy, either you are a dumbass or you think we are

Yeah, she really just happened to find those notes from before July just lying around. Give it up, Judy, you are in way over your head and Fitzgerald has already checkmated you.

[Neil Lisst]

2. Judy Miller is in pari delicto with Rove, Libby, Novak

Judith Miller was a major saleswoman of the war in Iraq. She was heavily invested in the WMD presence. She WAS the NY Times' pro-war cheerleader for Bush.

So when Joe Wilson came out with his stories, little miss Miller didn't like it. She was a part of the scheme, the spreading of the Plame story to undermine Wilson.

And now she "found" some notes she forgot? I don't trust her.

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[understandinglife]

4. Welcome to DU. And, as you check through the DU archives, you ...

... will find some of us have a comprehensive disregard for Ms Miller.

I typically refer to her as propagandist-in-chief. As you may know, she was specifically charged by the World Tribunal on Iraq. Some folk tend to think that doesn't mean much. In time they will find that they were incorrect.


Peace.

[Oilwellian]

5. They were after Wilson long before his Op-Ed

The "notes" Judy suddenly "found" are dated a month before Wilson's Op-Ed was even published. This will help Fitzgerald prove a conspiracy, and not just an act of revenge for the Op-Ed. :D

[Wilms]

7. Cool word.

in pari delicto

adv. (in pah-ree dee-lick-toe) Latin for "in equal fault," which means that two (or more) people are all at fault or are all guilty of a crime. In contract law, if the fault is more or less equal then neither party can claim breach of the contract by the other; in an accident, neither can collect damages, unless the fault is more on one than the other under the rule of "comparative negligence"; in defense of a criminal charge, one defendant will have a difficult time blaming the other for inducing him or her into the criminal acts if the proof is that both were involved.

http://dictionary.law.com/definition2.asp?selected=971

[HereSince1628]

3. Well, that's her story and she is sticking to it.

Experience shows that denial is an effective took in preserving the capacity to look at oneself in the mirror.

[boston bean]

6. She's smokin crack, not crackin! nt

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Even Miller is beginning to wonder why she spent time in jail.

[understandinglife]

9. Actually, I think Miller is calculating how much time she is going to ...

... spend in prison. Now that she knows what 'jail' is like, you can imagine she is really motivated to keep Federal penitentiary time to the minimum.


Peace.