Ole' Judith Miller was quite the bossy embed, it seems

[Nostradammit]

I found this old Kurtz article quite by accident and just had to marvel at the "Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha" and their crazy embedded reporter. Was Burgess Meredith part of the META?

Were they around Baghdad and to the East, South, West, and North, somewhat?

Keerist.



http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0625-05.htm



Embedded Reporter's Role In Army Unit's Actions Questioned by Military
by Howard Kurtz


New York Times reporter Judith Miller played a highly unusual role in an Army unit assigned to search for dangerous Iraqi weapons, according to U.S. military officials, prompting criticism that the unit was turned into what one official called a "rogue operation."

More than a half-dozen military officers said that Miller acted as a middleman between the Army unit with which she was embedded and Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, on one occasion accompanying Army officers to Chalabi's headquarters, where they took custody of Saddam Hussein's son-in-law. She also sat in on the initial debriefing of the son-in-law, these sources say.


Reporter Judith Miller and Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed Chalabi, at whose offices a relative of Saddam Hussein was taken into custody while she was present.
Since interrogating Iraqis was not the mission of the unit, these officials said, it became a "Judith Miller team," in the words of one officer close to the situation.

In April, Miller wrote a letter objecting to an Army commander's order to withdraw the unit, Mobile Exploitation Team Alpha, from the field. She said this would be a "waste" of time and suggested that she would write about it unfavorably in the Times. After Miller took up the matter with a two-star general, the pullback order was dropped.

[Hello_Kitty]

1. How fitting

That her unit would be called Exploitation Team Alpha, eh?

[izzie]

2. Well she always seemed like part of the WH team, not Times

Times should have seen just who she was working for years ago. Sounds like she was one of those people who like to say they are on the inside and know every one and every thing. Yet she turns out to be a used by them and she does not even know it as she sort of feed her own ego on what and who she knew and what she could do. She ended up making a fool of her self and Times and the WH used her. You would have thought the Times would have been more on the ball.

[Nostradammit]

3. Unless...

Maybe the Times knew what she was up to.


Interesting Times we live in, indeed.

[KharmaTrain]

4. Judy, Judy, Judy...

I'm certain this babe is living out some strange fantasy...thinking she's some sexy, Mata Hari type whose words and ways melt mere mortals.

There were/are a bunch of Judy in Iraq stories that seem to point that she wasn't quite your intrepid reporter digging for the truth. In addition to her "hangin'" with Chalabi, there was an officer she took a fancy to and even either wore his uniform or had one made for her. That Iraqi vacation was quite an event...Club Med couldn't have come up with a better itinerary.

Now, I suspect we'll see Judy in the Americun Expectorate or Bill Kristol's birdcage liner...playing the victim of the "librul media".

[Skittles]

5. she played the role of republican whore

f***ing bush whore

[Neil Lisst]

6. I called her the Little Drummer Girl

after the book and movie character

[H2O Man]

7. Good call. n/t

[Neil Lisst]

8. I added those two cartoons where I mentioned her as such

H2O man, you might want to peep it.

[H2O Man]

9. Great!

I love it!