Jailed Reporter Is Distanced From News, Not Elite Visitors (Miller-Bolton)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/16/AR2005091601646.html

Jailed Reporter Is Distanced From News, Not Elite Visitors

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 17, 2005; Page 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 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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1. With all the repuke visitors.......

They must be mighty worried about her having loose lips.The idiot bastards are always scrambling to cover their tracks.

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2. Don't want to talk about it Bolton?

Oh no.....Lets hear it, lets talk about it. What did you do with those documents and what happened with AIPAC exactly? Who are you trying to fool here Bolton? Yourself or the world?

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3. And they call us all "tinfoilers".

There is some serious shit going on - that is a FACT.

Replacing my tinfoil hat firmly in place.

LIHOP anybody? Sure looks like it more and more each day!

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4. An elective pre-emptive war sold on lies is by definition MIHOP

I don't think there is ANY doubt that there was collusion to make the war happen.

Defending the credibility of the administration and the rational of going to war on a trumped up claim of WMDs obviously required broad participation. Miller's published stories show she clearly was a part of that.

What is somewhat uncertain is if Miller involved herself in the destruction of Plame's cover.

Watergate taught a lesson well learned by the members of political conspiracy. The prosecuters may know who interacts with whom but know nothing if no one speaks out. Unless the conspiracists have doubts about each other the prisoner's dilemma does not arise. Regular communication among the conspirators is key to maintaining the wall of silence.