I don't support imprisonment of Judith Miller for protecting source. BUT

[Proud2BAmurkin]

I won't shed a tear when the Chalabi-Bush boot licker warmonger propagandist gets her ass thrown in a cage either.

[Goldmund]

1. My thoughts exactly.

:)

[KlatooBNikto]

2. To get an idea of her arrogance, even as she was battling this charge,

she showed up at the Senate listening to George Galloway because she wants to connect Kofi Annan to the Oil-For-Food plan.The word scandal
is associated with that plan by people like Miller to taint that plan.

[Warpy]

3. I do support prison for her

and if she doesn't talk within 30 days, charging her as an accessorty to the crime.

She's not protecting a source. She's covering a crime.

That's the difference, folks. Even lawyers and clergy have been busted for that. It's how Gotti's lawyer got convicted and thrown into prison.

[AnnInLa]

4. Presidential pardon?

Pasting the following from atrios:

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

The Liberal Media

Jeff Greenfield just told Wolf Blitzer:


"This might be a good case for a presidential pardon."



You know, pardoning Judith Miller. So she doesn't have to testify. So Fitzgerald can't make the case he presumably might be making against a prominent Bush administration official.


Sure, Jeff. Sounds like a great case to me.


...sam heldman reminds us:


Ken D nailed it above -- civil contempt (i.e., putting somebody in jail in order to induce them to comply with a court order, such as an order to testify, with the proviso that they can get out of jail as soon as they agree to do so) is not a crime, and therefore not pardonable. Jeff Greenfield was supposed to know something about the law, wasn't he??

http://www.atrios.blogspot.com/

[creeksneakers2]

5. The shoe will be on the other foot someday n/t

[Warpy]

7. I'd expect anyone who is covering up a crime to have the same

fate. That's the difference here.

Deep Throat was embarrassing people, but he was exposing a crime, not covering one up.

Miller and Cooper are covering a crime up.

That's why they belong in jail for contempt, and being charged as accessories if they continue to cover up for the criminals in the White House.

To hell with both of them. They need to find out the hard way that neocons abandon people they can no longer use.

[creeksneakers2]

8. Disclosing information can be a crime

Sometimes its very important that the public gets secret information.

[teryang]

6. She didn't protect David Kelly

Within hours after an email to Judith Miller he was murdered.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

9. Tonight on Hardball Michael Issa . . .Isssa . . . you know who I mean

although I don't know how to spell his name, the Newsweek guy, said that the prosecutor said yesterday, very plainly that "this isn't about protecting a whistleblower, it's about protecting someone who was punishing a whistleblower."

I think that does put it into perspective. Judith Miller and Matt Cooper are protecting someone who did something horrendous. I wold also like to add that there is one other component in the Plame story that is always overlooked. Bob Novack did not just reveal Valerie Plame - he revealed her cover company and put God knows how many people in how many countries at risk. I really don't know why and how he is walking around still smugly making judgemental commentaries about anyone. I think he should be living an ascetic life, flagellating himself daily and seeking insight into his inate assholery that would put some kind of short-term political goalpost before living, breathing, American heros.