Treasongate: Miller and the NYT Fail to Come Clean

[realFedUp]

(I think this a good take on this issue)

http://www.theleftcoaster.com/archives/005732.php

Saturday :: Oct 15, 2005
Treasongate: Miller and the NYT Fail to Come Clean
In today's articles by the New York Times (Don Van Natta, Jr., Adam Liptak and Clifford J. Levy) and Judith Miller, I was looking for clarity on two crucial aspects of the Valerie Plame case/expose.

Will the NYT and Miller admit that Miller misled the grand jury?
Will Miller clarify whether or not she knew about Valerie Plame/Wilson before her first conversation with Lewis Libby (on Joseph Wilson)?
As I suspected, the NYT editors and Miller made it clear that they are not going to clarify the truth on these matters and took the decision to continue to obfuscate.

In this post I discuss these two issues.

1. Did the NYT or Judith Miller admit that Miller misled the grand jury? No.

As I showed in my detailed review of the available evidence, Judith Miller clearly misled the Plame grand jury about her meeting with Vice President Dick Cheney's Chief of Staff Lewis "Scooter" Libby in June 2003. This was the reason she was forced to testify a second time before the grand jury.

The main NYT article completely ignores this fact, using this wording:

On Sept. 29, Ms. Miller was released from jail and whisked by Mr. Sulzberger and Mr. Keller to the Ritz-Carlton Georgetown for a massage, a manicure, a martini and a steak dinner. The next morning, she testified before the grand jury for three hours. Afterward, Ms. Miller declared that her ordeal was a victory for journalists and the public.

She testified before the grand jury for a second time on Wednesday about notes from her first meeting with Mr. Libby.

I do not blame the reporters who wrote the articles for this. It is clear that the NYT management must have insisted that the real reasons requiring her second grand jury appearance remain hidden.

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[ClintonTyree]

1. The NYT is loathe to admit........

that Miller is a working member of the bush administration, a woman so intertwined with the White House that she's lost all objectivity on any issue central to the White House official position.
Miller.....a neo-con shill that doesn't deserve her post at the NYT and should resign won't even consider it. She's so brainwashed that she thinks it's her job to defend the bushies in the name of the NYT. If the NYT had an iota of integrity left they'd fire this woman. That they don't and constantly defend her speaks volumes.

[realFedUp]

2. and it's not as if this administration has been so forthright about info

that the NYT or any other MSM would be wanting
for being cut off from anyone in Bush Inc.

That's what I don't get. Glad the WH press corps
has found it's moral voice somewhat but playing
ball with Bush Inc. to date hasn't given them any
info they couldn't have dug out of other sources
and has made them look like they've been on the
White House payroll.

[pretzel4gore]

3. buying bush time

i think this entire extravaganza, from 911 to the anthrax scare to the war in afghanistann to all the gannonguckert crap and the miller gj stuff etc is to buy bush time, so the looting of america can take place, and the corruption of the system made irreversible. mygod do they ever HATE the US once led by bill clinton.....hatred that transcends understanding....