WaPo Confirms: Bolton visited Judy Miller in Jail

[FourStarDemocrat]

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; A01

Locked in the Alexandria Detention Center for the past 11 weeks, New York Times reporter Judith Miller is cut off from the world. She has no Internet access and precious little opportunity to view CNN. Her phone calls are limited, friends say. Her daily newspaper arrives a day late.

But for 30 minutes nearly every day, the world comes to her: A parade of prominent government and media officials, 99 in all, visited Miller between early July, when she was jailed for refusing to be questioned by a federal prosecutor, and Labor Day, according to a document obtained by The Washington Post.

The who's who of friends, supporters and Washington and New York luminaries includes John R. Bolton, President Bush's new ambassador to the United Nations, former "NBC Nightly News" anchor Tom Brokaw and former senator Robert J. Dole (R-Kan.). Gonzalo Marroquin, president of the Inter-American Press Society and director of the Guatemalan daily Prensa Libre has been by.

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Bolton's visit raised some eyebrows in Washington. A vocal defender of administration claims in 2003 that Iraq was seeking weapons of mass destruction, he could have had access to a State Department memo, parts of which were classified, that detailed Wilson's trip to Niger to determine whether Iraq was seeking uranium there and identified his wife as a covert CIA operative. Who saw or discussed the memo has been a central question for Fitzgerald.

Bolton declined through a spokesman to discuss his visit to Miller or his reasons for going. "This has nothing to do with his job here," the spokesman said. "He doesn't want to talk about it."




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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601646_pf.html




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[Child_Of_Isis]

1. Her daily newspaper arrives a day late.

Boo hoo :cry:

[opihimoimoi]

2. Somethin smells real bad here. Bolton??? the guy who drinks milk w vodka?

[FourStarDemocrat]

6. Yeah, maybe she'll have a completely "innocent "meeting with Rove next

After all, good friends need to catch up with each other once in a while. :sarcasm:

[WhiteTara]

13. the drink of all hard core alcoholics

Jeez that sounds disgusting. But if you have rotted your stomach with drink, I guess the milk would be soothing? :puke:

[Wilber_Stool]

20. You're right

Next comes Malox.

[tridim]

25. Ever had a White Russian?

They're tasty! And no, I'm not a hardcore alcoholic.. I drink about once every other month.

[WiseButAngrySara]

28. Is Bolton an alcoholic? I wouldn't wish that on anyone, but he deserves

it! I hope he bleeds to death from ruptured esophageal varices, and chokes on his own blood and vomitus. He is a death machine, like the rest of the BFEE.

[pushycat]

33. milk w vodka gags me - both milk and vodka gag me eom

[sasquatch]

5. The dead she's responsible for newspapers arrive...NEVER!!

[Pacifist Patriot]

26. Yeah, I tried to dredge up some sympathy for her plight.

But it's just not happening.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

41. Kind of like her retractions.

[sasquatch]

3. Nominated

[still_one]

4. Why in the F**K would he visit her?

when did they become good friends?

Somebody better get indicted on this

In sure looks like rove, bolton, miller, and many more are involved up to their neck in this

[MADem]

7. To tell her she could be pushing up daisies if she opens her mouth

most likely. He seems to be skilled in bullying and threatening, if prior interactions are any indication.

HE HAD ACCESS TO THAT INFO. Remember, it came out of STATE, where he was the WH guy who spied on POWELL.

RECESS APPOINTMENT, done quick, in a hurry. Get the boy outta town!!!

[FourStarDemocrat]

11. Or, they could be getting "facts" in sync in case she decides to testify..

Arianna Huffington , in the HuffingtonPost.com has been writing about rumors lately that Judy might be changing her mind about remaining in jail.

[MADem]

12. That could mean the Grand Jury could be extended

Hey, it's almost October, once the GJ disbands, she is outta there...she can do the rest of the time standing on her head, so why give in now???

If that rumor is afloat, ole Fitz may be keeping them working.

[suegeo]

22. didn't some guy wide up dead at the state dept?

Tossed out a window, and they tried to tell us it was a suicide.

[NYC]

38. I have a vague memory of that.

Had he removed his shoes? Something was odd. (Aside from the whole suicide.)

[suegeo]

45. His name was Kokal

He took off his shoes and his jacket, and "jumped" just before sundown on a Friday. If he were Jewish, which I don't know, wouldn't there be some significance to that?

He was working on stuff related to the Middle East. I think it had to do with weapons.

On edit: a link that explains many of the news reports at the time
http://www.fromthewilderness.com/free/ww3/112003_kokal.html

[NYC]

46. I don't know about the significance of sundown.

Observing the sabbath by not doing "work" after sundown, but suicide isn't acceptable, so why bother to get it done before sundown. Who knows? I guess it could be. Why make things worse by doing it after sundown? That's if he was Jewish, and observed.

Thanks for the link. I had forgotten his name. I had forgotten the entire incident until reminded.

...At the time Kokal fell from either the roof or a window, his wife Pamela, a public affairs specialist in the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, was waiting for him in the parking garage...

[Cha]

31. B-I-N-G-O!

Give that man a trip to PEI~!

[MADem]

43. I'd take it!!! n/t

[Generator]

9. Old friends

http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/000798.html

and old news
http://www.mediacynic.com/cgi-bin/mediacynic.pl?cynic=817051

And she and Bob Dole are tighter than wool on a wet day.

[Generator]

8. No CNN?

Isn't that protected by the Geneva convention? Damn that Gonzalez.

[rateyes]

10. I hope Fitz has a warrant to

secretly wiretap those conversations.

[hwmnbn]

29. not that I'd know anything about it,,,,

But you can bet your ass, anyone other than her lawyer is listened to.

[teryang]

14. Thanks for the David Kelly tip Judith

And thanks for keeping your mouth shut.

[Moderator]

15. FourStarDemocrat, please edit the title of your post

"Jailed Reporter Is Distanced From News, Not Elite Visitors" is the published title.

Thank you.

[FourStarDemocrat]

19. I just tried to edit it , but it said my editing time has expired.

If you can enable me to edit it I will try again, or if a moderator could change the title that would be fine with me too.

[brentspeak]

16. Judith Miller should be released from prison immediately.

Immediately, that is, after revealing to Mr.Fitzgerald who in the White House blew Valerie Plame's cover.

[IndianaGreen]

24. Judith Miller should be dropped in the middle of Baghdad

with a big Israeli flag wrapped around her. Let her get a taste of the horrors she helped bring about to the Iraqi people.

[flordehinojos]

17. a humble reporter doing her job? it stinks to the high heavens.

it is more like one of their pet star being honored (or consoled) for covering up for the darn lot of the truly bastards who have taken over our government.

[xxqqqzme]

18. just curious - does she remain on the payroll?

or is this 'vacation time'?

[MrTriumph]

21. After the visit, Judith smoked a cigar and headed for the tub....

shades of Godfather II

[rodeodance]

23. Bolton is said to be her source for Iraqi war info. was an article or two

on DU about this a while ago.

[daleo]

27. Getting their stories straight.

And maybe a little implied threat to Fitzgerald - i.e. she is well connected to dangerous neo-cons.

[Nothing Without Hope]

30. You and I know he went there to intimidate her, make sure she won't talk

Bolton's a bully above all else, and he stands to lose big if she says what she knows, which is A LOT. She funneled neocon lies into the forfront of the American Press, playing a major role in the push into the Iraq War. If she REALLY told all she knows, the consequences for the traitors who pushed ithe "information" on her would be grave. After all, in this Administration, high treason does give at least a bit of temporary embarrassment before you can get back to business as usual.

I would think Miller's loud and frequent statements that she would NEVER talk were mostly to save her own skin. People who know too much about this administration and are not in the inner circle of conspirators tend to have untimely "accidents" - very easy to arrange anywhere, especially a prison. She may have considered herself one of this inner circle, but she is not. She's not even a useful tool to them at this point. And she knows way, way too much.

[FourStarDemocrat]

34. She allowed the visit-she's part of this gang & not being intimidated IMO

On another note...I wonder why since the NY Times management loves her so, why Judy's not publishing a "diary" from her jail cell now and then.

[jaysunb]

32. Straight out of the Godfather....

Remember all those little "visits" to remind potential finks of their or their familes future should they start singing ?

[despairing optimist]

35. Hi. I'm Judy. Rates: $250/hr out, $200/hr in

Check out my in-jail special. Into any scene.

[FourStarDemocrat]

36. lol..don't forget Judy's Pay Pal account set up in the Cayman Islands

Wire transfers accepted for "consulting" fees.

[TankLV]

37. She's had over 60 visits from prominent repukes.

It was in another thread somewhere here.

Bob Dole, Bolton, all high-up in the repuke criminal gang hierarchy.

[FourStarDemocrat]

39. Judy is sending for them through her consiglieri....

She chuckles and hums to herself:

"99 visitors appear through glass wall
99 visitors appear
If one of those visitors should happen to fall..
98 visitors appear through glass wall"

:D

[TankLV]

40. I was wrong - it's over 99 repukes who've visited.

[thebigidea]

42. and I bet she got complete privacy, unlike most inmates

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

44. Bolton brought her the morning paper.