Excellent column on Judith Miller's deep involvement in neocon crimes

[pberq]

http://antiwar.com/justin/

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. . .Miller's role as the War Party's media megaphone in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq became so glaringly obvious that her editors felt obliged to publish a lengthy albeit disingenuous mea culpa. In return for the extraordinary access afforded to her, and the deference shown to her by military authorities, it is now clear that Miller performed certain duties on behalf of the War Party, aside from publicizing their case for invading Iraq. That is why she is sitting in a jail cell today.

Just prior to the publication of Robert Novak's column on the Niger uranium fiasco that outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, Miller had a conversation with a high government official whose identity, according to the appellate court opinion <.pdf file> issued in this case, is known to the prosecution. The Washington Post is reporting that the "source" she is protecting by going to jail is none other than I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and the man at the center of the neoconservative seat of power in Washington.

The only question now is whether Scooter told Miller, or – more likely, in my opinion – Miller told Scooter that Plame was a covert agent. Miller could easily have learned this in the course of her research into the subject of WMD.

In an effort to get Miller to talk, U.S. Attorney Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald is threatening to slap her with contempt of court charges, which could lengthen her four-month stay in the county jail considerably. Is she a martyr to the First Amendment, or part of a vicious cabal that is frantically trying to cover up crimes? . . . (More)

[bushisanidiot]

1. If the repukes are going to this much trouble to keep her quiet, she

must have a LOT of a lot of damaging information. the fact that she is willing to do jailtime to protect KKKarl was the first sign that she is knee deep into this cover-up.

[Toots]

2. Miller could easily have learned this in the course of her research into t

How could Miller have easily learned Classified Information? If the US Security system is soo poor as to make it so any reporter could easily learn Classified Data we are in more trouble than even I realized.

[readmylips]

3. Someone high-up was feeding Classified to Miller.....

I worked in classified information and even if someone has a classified/top security clearance, to protect individuals and information of high interest to our government, not one single person knows everything. Only the higher ups in government know everything about classified/top security government information.

Miller was the mouth piece for Chavali(?), ...remember him...? She even helped Chavali's daughter get a job with her newspaper as her assistant. Two ways Miller had to be getting top security information; through higher official (Cheney/Rumpbutt) or she's a direct CIA operative herself under Cheney's secret government.

[pberq]

4. secret government

You may have the most important part of all this - Cheney's secret government.

After reading Michael Ruppert's "Crossing the Rubicon", this is very plausible, and could explain many things that have happened over the last 4 years.

There is no doubt that the CIA has infiltrated newsrooms in the past.