NYT Bombshell from Bill Keller re Judy

[Chalco]

This just out. Bill Keller angry at Judy.

snip

"I wish we had dealt with the controversy over our coverage of WMD as soon as I became executive editor."

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"So it was a year before we got around to really dealing with the controversy. At that point, we published a long editors' note acknowledging the prewar journalistic lapses, and -- to my mind, at least as important - - we intensified aggressive reporting aimed at exposing the way bad or manipulated intelligence had fed the drive to war. "

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"I wish that when I learned Judy Miller had been subpoenaed as a witness in the leak investigation, I had sat her down for a thorough debriefing, and followed up with some reporting of my own. It is a natural and proper instinct to defend reporters when the government seeks to interfere in our work. And under other circumstances it might have been fine to entrust the details -- the substance of the confidential interviews, the notes -- to lawyers who would be handling the case. But in this case I missed what should have been significant alarm bells. Until Fitzgerald came after her, I didn't know that Judy had been one of the reporters on the receiving end of the anti-Wilson whisper campaign. I should have wondered why I was learning this from the special counsel, a year after the fact. (In November of 2003 Phil Taubman tried to ascertain whether any of our correspondents had been offered similar leaks. As we reported last Sunday, Judy seems to have misled Phil Taubman about the extent of her involvement.) This alone should have been enough to make me probe deeper."

More here http://www.crooksandliars.com/stories/2005/10/21/aMessageFromBillKeller.html

[texpatriot2004]

1. Bill Keller is still being coy, now he feigns "anger" give it up Bill

YOU KNEW TOO.

[montanacowboy]

2. So Judee Judee mislead Keller the same

way old Tenent mislead the Chimperor...right?

bullshit

CYA time Bill - too late

[katty]

3. not sorry, Bill, just sorry you and missWMD got CAUGHT

[MADem]

4. "This alone should have been enough to make me probe deeper."

Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa...yea right, Billy boy. More like me a cowboy, me a cowboy, me a lazyass owboy.

When you fail to do your job, you should take the hit, hard. Just like any other schmuck. Ya fired!!!!

[librechik]

5. standard CYA

damn I'm disgusted with this . "The Paper of Obfuscation"

[Rufus T. Firefly]

6. The fire her.

She was factually dishonest and kept the truth from you. Why is she still employed?

[Sagan]

7. Rest assured..

The mainstream media will use all their toadying and licking-up to Chimpco as an excuse to give a Democratic Administration NO SLACK at all.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

8. " It is a natural and proper...

...instinct to defend reporters when the government seeks to interfere in our work."

It is a natural and improper instinct of neocon shills posing as journalists to continue to distort the truth and deflect blame when exposed and caught in a web of their own lies. Judy Miller was doing the government's work---the work of propaganda dissemination to build public support for the illegal invasion of Iraq. The NYT was at best complicit and at worst a willing co-conspirator.

[Seansky]

9. next step his resignation since he is taking responsibility for being

such poor leader/manager?

[Chalco]

10. kick. I think this article is important. I know he's

late to the game but he does provide some useful information, ie that Judy WAS shilling for Cheney/Libby. That's awesome info to hear from the source instead of us all assuming it.

[Fluffdaddy]

12. Judy WAS shilling for Cheney/Libby. It's time for the Times to show Judy

The Door

[Fluffdaddy]

11. To little to late. The Times have let all of us down

[bemildred]

13. Gee, he doesn't mention Sulzberger's role in the lying, I wonder why? nt