Raimondo: General Judy's (Miller) in the brig – and justice is served.

[JohnyCanuck]

I posted the link to this article as a response to a post in another thread. However, upon reflection I think it deserves a thread of its own.

Judith Miller: Hearsted on
Her Own Petard

General Judy's in the brig –
and justice is served
by Justin Raimondo


A year ago almost to the day, I vented my indignation at the latest charges the neocons were hurling at former Ambassador Joe Wilson, whose op-ed piece in the New York Times sparked a smear campaign that continues to the present:

"The infinite chutzpah of the War Party is exemplified by its taking out after Joe Wilson for having … a credibility problem. Look who's talking! These are the same people who stovepiped lies cooked up by a bunch of Iraqi exiles and passed it off as 'intelligence': nuclear 'centrifuges' that didn't exist, links to al-Qaeda that were utterly fictitious, a fleet of 'drones' supposedly capable of bombing American cities that might just as well have been paper airplanes. It would be funny if we weren't talking about a decision to go to war."

Ms. Miller had a hand in much of the above: she wasn't reporting on it so much as she was a participant, a key link in the network of liars, forgers, and character assassins who corrupted U.S. intelligence-gathering capabilities, misled the public, and betrayed the country while they broke the law. I say lock her up, and throw away the key.

Some of the ditzier liberals have been quite upset at this turn of events. Poor Judy is having to sleep on a mattress, they wail, under the same roof as a bunch of felons, murderers, drug-dealers, and whores! Oh, boo hoo hoo! They need to get over it. As the witty proprietor of the Norwegianity blog quipped: she's been "Hearsted on her own petard." And that's a Good Thing.

For once, the neocons are on the defensive, facing far greater firepower than they've ever encountered. In Plame-gate, the War Party is facing its Waterloo. Let no one – not weepy liberals, bamboozled into believing that "reporter" Miller is a martyr to the First Amendment, or party-lining neocons, who whine that "policy differences" are being "criminalized" – deprive us of victory or any of its pleasures. These people belong in jail, and for far longer than any are likely to be sentenced. The sheer beauty of their impending trial – as a lesson in how the War Party works, how it lied and smeared and seized power in a ruthless bid to impose its agenda – makes up for any deficiency of justice in sentencing guidelines that privilege white-collar gangs over the ordinary non-ideological variety. This investigation means there is some justice in this world, if not in the next, and that is more than good enough for me.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=6693

[acmavm]

1. This is the absolute truth. Judith Miller is not a heroine for our times,

or anyone elses. She deserves this. In fact, in her sick mind she's probably reveling in her delusions that she's a martyr for the 'cause'. Now all we have to do is figure out what that sick witch thinks the 'cause' is.

Keep her there. Property values skyrocketed all over the city the minute they turned the key.

[bryant69]

2. Ditzier liberals?

The true test for whether or not you believe in freedom is when someobody you don't like uses that freedom in ways you don't agree with. The test of whether or not you believe in freedom of speech comes whan you encounter someone who uses that freedom of speech to say something you don't agree with.

You want to throw away freedom of the press to gain some short term revenge, that's fine. Just don't complain when someone doing work you approve of goes to jail under similar circumstances.

And I've never been ditzy in my life.

Bryant
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[JohnyCanuck]

3. To my mind she is more of a co-conspirator

in using false information to trick the US population into an illegal war by spreading the neo-con WMD lies and propaganda and is now attempting to continue the charade by obfuscating the embarrassing truth about the WMD story. It appears to me that her credentials as as a "journalist" are simply her cover for her real job as Neocon propaganda agent along the lines of the infamous CIA Operation Mockingbird media stooges and propaganda promulgators. She can BS away and tell all the lies she wants without repercussion, and then when the shit hits the fan it's, "Oh, but your laws don't apply to me, because I'm a journalist." Screw her.

[bryant69]

4. That's convienent

You sound a lot like a conservative complaining about the Liberal Media, actually.

Look, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying she's a good person or that we sould admire here in anyway. I think on some levels she deserves what she's getting; that said, I'm not willing to throw away a higher principle to get revenge or even justice.

"The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all." - H. L. Mencken

Bryant

[peacetalksforall]

5. You're right. Justin Raimondo is right.

A liberal wants to see her get her indictment, if due, and justice.

The real issue with me is crying about locking up a journalist because she won't reveal a source.

Given her history, given what we think we know now, given the history of the whouse... she may not be a simple journalist, she may be a co-conspirator.

The typical journalist is a third party to a whistleblower and a wrongdoer who works with their editor and a decision as to whether to write and publish the whistleblower's leak or not.

Given the players, this was a PARTNERSHIP a right wing operation and right wing journalists FOR A MULTIPLE ITEM AGENDA: To stop an investigation into wmd, cover-up a war, discredit the CIA, destroy an front operation, diminish the future of covert operations, and persecute a family.

Therefore, she was not a third party. None of them appear to be innocent. They were co-conspirators - out to help destroy.

There ain't no whistleblower. There are wrongdoers talking to wrongdoers, the way it appears now.

[Dawgs]

6. My hope...

is that she realizes how shitty a life it will be to stay in jail. If she starts to see everyone going down(Rove, Libby, etc...), then maybe she will see the need to come out and finally testify.

[pberq]

7. Excellent article

This is Raimondo in top form. Apparently we were both starting a thread on this at the same time: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4127647

My greatest fear in this whole thing is will the neocons go after Fitzgerald. They have proven themselves to be vicious cutthroat criminals, and it seems that Fitz has the power right now to expose them for what they are.

[pberq]

8. Here's more

http://antiwar.com/justin /

<snip>
. . .Miller's role as the War Party's media megaphone in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq became so glaringly obvious that her editors felt obliged to publish a lengthy albeit disingenuous mea culpa. In return for the extraordinary access afforded to her, and the deference shown to her by military authorities, it is now clear that Miller performed certain duties on behalf of the War Party, aside from publicizing their case for invading Iraq. That is why she is sitting in a jail cell today.

Just prior to the publication of Robert Novak's column on the Niger uranium fiasco that outed Valerie Plame as a CIA agent, Miller had a conversation with a high government official whose identity, according to the appellate court opinion <.pdf file> issued in this case, is known to the prosecution. The Washington Post is reporting that the "source" she is protecting by going to jail is none other than I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Dick Cheney's chief of staff, and the man at the center of the neoconservative seat of power in Washington.

The only question now is whether Scooter told Miller, or, more likely, in my opinion, Miller told Scooter that Plame was a covert agent. Miller could easily have learned this in the course of her research into the subject of WMD.

In an effort to get Miller to talk, U.S. Attorney Patrick J. "Bulldog" Fitzgerald is threatening to slap her with contempt of court charges, which could lengthen her four-month stay in the county jail considerably. Is she a martyr to the First Amendment, or part of a vicious cabal that is frantically trying to cover up crimes? . . . (More)