RW Spin: "Judith Miller Exonerates Bush Officials"

[sabra]

http://www.mensnewsdaily.com/archive/k/kincaid/2005/kincaid101705.htm

Judith Miller Exonerates Bush Officials

by Cliff Kincaid

The true facts in the CIA-leak case are now becoming astonishingly clear. New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s testimony, as she describes it in the Sunday edition of her paper, proves that the wrong people are under investigation. It’s not really a story about Bush officials Lewis Libby and Karl Rove and their conversations with the press. Rather, it’s a story about a CIA bureaucracy working to undermine the Bush administration through the media and cover up for its own mistakes.

It’s now obvious that Bush officials are spending time before a grand jury and big money on lawyers for the alleged “crime” of trying to use the press to get out their side of the story. They trusted the press and got burned. Now, if the media have their way, these officials may be further punished by being indicted by Special Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. This would be a gross miscarriage of justice.

The case has been a revealing and disappointing look into how Bush administration officials tried to work with various reporters, in order to counteract false accusations about the administration’s Iraq policy that had appeared in the press. In the end, they failed. It’s a failure that demonstrates the folly of trying to curry favor with the liberal press.

Journalists, by contrast, may come out of this drama with special rights. Senator Arlen Specter’s Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Wednesday on a proposed federal media “shield law” to protect some journalists from disclosing sources to a grand jury. Miller will be the star witness. Accuracy in Media has been denied the opportunity to testify in person against the bill because of opposition from Democratic congressional staffers.

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Well, now. It's really not up to Judy Miller. n/t

[Walt Starr]

2. That's what they said about Cooper, too

It didn't work then. It won't work now, and it'll have zero effect on Fitzgerald.

[mzteris]

3. I wonder if it hurts

when they turn their heads around backwards like that.

How oh how could they possibly get THAT from what is really going on?

:shrug:

[Beetwasher]

4. Their Spin Is WAAAAAAY To Complicated To Be In Any Way Effective

It's ludicrous, and that's being nice about it.

[Marr]

10. I agree. Their own moronic supporters won't be able to remember it.

[Richard Steele]

5. Just like they railroaded that nice Mr. Nixon.....

Man, what a crock of spin!

Methinks things is gettin' a wee bit DESPERATE in NeoCon land!

[Demobrat]

6. Oh, this is a hoot.

They tried to use the liberal press to counteract false accusations and got burned.
ROFLMAO

More like they used the press to disseminate lies, in the course of which they committed a crime and got caught.

Sorry, Freeps, your boys broke the law. Not that that's the big problem though. The problem is the prosecutor is honest! Now what?

[Tamarin]

7. Why don't they tell us why the CIA wants to take down the Bush

Administration? Yes, some members of the CIA do want to undermine Bushco - because they lied about the reasons for invading Iraq.

[Marr]

11. Oops- double post

[stopbush]

8. Is this from The Onion? :)

[DrDan]

9. they are still trying to figure an angle so as to blame it on Clinton

[Marr]

12. I can't tell- are they saying Judy Miller is a liberal?

They've twisted the story into so many knots I can't see where the ends are.