Will Judith Miller Talk?

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And this is from a conservative site...
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http://www.theconservativevoice.com/articles/article.html?id=7384

Will Judith Miller Talk?


The only reason the Valeria Plame affair remains a big story is the small possibility that when U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald and the federal grand jury take action, any day now, it may reach into the Oval Office.
That is, one or more indictments of government officials may lead to hard information that President Bush knew the Niger yellowcake story was pure propaganda, which helped him justify war with Iraq, when he used it in his 2003 State of the Union speech for that purpose.

Fitzgerald has been keeping his cards close to his vest, but sources close to the story tell me they think the chances to story will touch the President are no more than 2 out of 10. Chances it may touch the Vice President have just increased because it has been learned that Scooter Libby, Mr. Cheney's chief of staff, met with Judy Miller of the NYTimes on July 8, 2003, two days after Joe Wilson published his column in the NYTimes. Miller is now in jail for refusing to testify on that conversation. In his column, Wilson charged the administration knew several months before that Bush address that the assertion Saddam was seeking to reconstitute his nuclear weapons program was a hoax, built around forged documents that the CIA knew had been forged prior to their use by the President. Mr. Bush at least altered his speech to the nation by saying it was the British who supplied to intelligence that Iraq was trying to buy nuclear material in Africa.

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It does seem unlikely to me that it is the chief barrier, for Fitzgerald could have gotten what he needed from Libby when Libby testified before the grand jury. It is more likely that Miller prefers jail to telling how she originally decided to take an interest in the Plame story. We can reasonably be assured that Miller got her information about Wilson and his wife Valerie Plame from Ahmed Chalabi, the Iraqi who provided most of the false information to the U.S. government about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction. Chalabi, now deputy prime minister in the Iraqi interim government, has been part of the neo-con network for decades, from the days he and Paul Wolfowitz were fellow students at the University of Chicago. A WorldNetDaily.com report of July 23, 2003, by Paul Sperry, mentioned her friendship with Laurie Mylroie, a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute who has also been doing the bidding of the neo-cons in promoting the Iraq war.

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[kentuck]

1. She's supposedly working on her book....

I will not be buying it.

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2. Not under oath

The Plame question isn't even the issue. Her problem is that if she doesn't perjure herself about being a propagandist for the PNAC, she will show herself to be a liar against the soul of journalism, a cynical traitor bent on destroying civilization in order to protect Israel, and she'll have to be silenced by the Bushies.

If she perjures herself, there's so much testimony by others that it will be obvious. It's much better to play the martyr.

Sooner or later, she's going to have to lie and be disgraced, otherwise she'll find herself in a small plane. Her only hope is if she can mount some legal challenge and have the administration's many Roland Frieslers help her skate.