I so like this opening paragraph by Bev Conover on Judith Miller

[donsu]

http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_171.shtml



So the Pinch and Judy Show has come to an inglorious end, with now former New York Times reporter Judith Miller cooking up the fable that she fell on her sword because she had become the story and riding off to her own website, where she can offer up more fantastical tales.

-snip- (this part is good too)

Perhaps Miller, who holds bachelor's degree from Barnard and a masters in economics from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, now will have the time to take a Journalism 101 course and, if she still has access, the White House Ethics Classes. That's in between TV appearances, such as last night's Larry King Show, where she repeated all the lies about the threat Saddam Hussein posed to the US; that he used chemical weapons on his own people; that al Qaeda terrorists are out to get us; and that she's fearful of chemical or biological weapons attacks, then denied she lobbied for war on Iraq.

Judy, Judy, Judy, you are a disgrace to the journalism profession.
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I say she is a criminal. crimes against the citizens of the US.

[knowbody0]

1. mayhaps one day she will come to terms with the fact

that she was manipulated and used as a tool for criminals.

[understandinglife]

2. Crimes against humanity.

She is the one journalist called out by name and charged:

http://www.worldtribunal.org/main/?b=91

See -- Section II Charges: F. Aganist the Major Corporate Media; # 1.

"It IS Tribunal Time in the United States of America."


Peace.

[oasis]

3. Judy's a total ditz. Who will ever take her serious again? (eom)

[MADem]

4. I liked this bit, myself--it just lays out her absolute BS, and curious

connections:

...Unlike her sister inmates at the Alexandria Detention Center, she had some very interesting visitors during her incarceration for contempt of court. Among them was UN Ambassador John Bolton, the volatile neocon Bush had to slip into the post on a recess appointment, so Bolton can carry out his dream of wrecking that institution. Now why would Bolton go visit Miller? The mystery thickens. Former NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw also was among Miller's visitors and was quoted by the Washington Post as saying ""Judy Miller is the most innocent person in this case." and "I really thought that was outrageous that she was jailed and we needed as journalists to draw a line in the sand in a strong but thoughtful way." Tsk,tsk, Tom. Even former Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) trekked to the jailhouse to keep company with Judy.

Then there is the matter of the "forgotten" notebook that she suddenly came across, while searching for additional notes, that showed a June 23, 2003 meeting she had with Libby, two weeks prior to Wilson's op-ed in the Times that sent the administration into a tizzy. According to her notes, Libby indicated the White House was looking for ways to discredit Wilson before his op-ed appeared in the Times and that Libby mentioned Wilson's wife worked for the CIA. Though she claims Libby never mentioned Plame by name, in the margin she wrote "Flame." It gets curiouser and curiouser.

More curious is Miller's fabrication about having possessed a "special" security clearance while embedded with the military team searching for WMD in Iraq, which apparently was nothing more than the standard embed agreement to treat classified information as off the record until it was cleared and censored by the military, as bad as that is. Or as William E. Jackson put it, "This was the security clearance that never was--a canard." Jackson could have put it less charitably by saying it was a canard to bolster her ego and pump up her importance. Perhaps a defensive mechanism since her colleagues neither found her endearing or trustworthy....

[Jane Austin]

5. Thanks so much for posting this.

That's some fun writing.