All along, the neocon plan was very simple – even elegant. Before the war, they would make a ruckus about Iraq’s phantom weapons of mass destruction. After, the war they would claim it was all a big mistake based on an honest ‘intelligence failure’ and place the blame on Chalabi – who was counted on to fall on his sword as a ‘hero in error.’ Enter Ambassador Wilson with his assertions that the Niger Yellow Cake Uranium was an amateurish hoax. Even if Chalabi had volunteered to take the blame for the ‘Niger’ scam, he couldn’t credibly take the fall for ‘bad intelligence’ that originated in Italy by way of the Tel Aviv.
Wilson’s unforgivable crime was that he had blown up the bridge to the neocon fallback ‘intelligence failure’ position. With a single article, he managed to mess up the neocon plan to divert attention from the Office of Special Plans – the Pentagon assembly line charged with systematically manufacturing bogus intelligence.
Fortunately for Sulzberger and his in-house neocon brigades, his paper wasn’t the only major news outlet to team up with the administration in executing the WMD propaganda campaign. You could find Judith Miller clones embedded in virtually every mass media corporation. Sulzberger’s rivals had no incentive to take him down a notch. At CNN, Wolf Blitzer played Judy’s role with Likudnik passion. Charles Krauthammer was the anointed Miller impersonator at the Washington Post. As for FOX, Rupert Murdoch insisted that his whole crew show up in Judy Miller drag to perform their neocon chores.
Before getting out of jail, Miller insisted that the Grand Jury confine their inquiry to Lewis Libby’s role in outing Valerie Plame. If she ever comes clean with what she knows about the WMD hoax – it would cause a volcanic eruption on the political landscape of the United States. But it would also expose the role of the New York Times in duping their readers into supporting the Iraq war. The price of doing that would require both Sulzberger and Miller to accept their fair share of the blame for a monstrous and unnecessary war that has wasted so much in blood and treasure. That’s not going to happen. So much for Miller’s concern about our right to know ‘what governments and powerful corporations don't want us to know.’
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