'Hidden Scandal' in Miller Story - Miller had DoD Clearance???

[rosesaylavee]

http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001306732

'Hidden Scandal' in Miller Story, Charges Former CBS Newsman

By E&P Staff

Published: October 16, 2005 4:00 PM ET

NEW YORK Since the posting of The New York Times lengthy article on Judith Miller's involvement in the Plame scandal Saturday night, much Web buzzing has ensued concerning the revelation that she had some sort of special classified status while embedded with troops in Iraq at one point.

E&P columnist William E. Jackson, Jr., had first raised this issue last year. Today, former CBS national security correspondent Bill Lynch posted a long letter about it at the Romnesko site at poynter.org. Here is the letter:

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There is one enormous journalism scandal hidden in Judith Miller's Oct. 16th first person article about the (perhaps lesser) CIA leak scandal. And that is Ms. Miller's revelation that she was granted a DoD security clearance while embedded with the WMD search team in Iraq in 2003.

This is as close as one can get to government licensing of journalists and the New York Times (if it knew) should never have allowed her to become so compromised. It is all the more puzzling that a reporter who as a matter of principle would sacrifice 85 days of her freedom to protect a source would so willingly agree to be officially muzzled and thereby deny potentially valuable information to the readers whose right to be informed she claims to value so highly.

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If this is true and Miller was granted clearance, who else in the media has the same deal with DoD?

[acmavm]

1. That's what people are taking away from her story. Someone needs

to ask her outright. Then ask Scotty why a reporter would be given security clearance. Why did she need it? And was it a two-way street. Did the DoD feed her information for her stories. And did she print them without question? Was she just a shill for the propaganda. Why her and nobody else?

I think we all know the answers already. She just needs to be make to admit what a worthless piece of journalistic shit propagandist whore she is/was.

[Dover]

2. Well if Rove, Cheney and others can pick up a phone and call CNN

Fox and other media sources and twist some arms, there's certainly nothing remarkable about this incident. Journalism has been compromised at every turn. They shoot horses don't they...

[texpatriot2004]

3. This would explain why she refuses to cooperate with the NYT. nt