Judith Miller and Fitz have tangled before.

[deminks]

I found this NPR report from October 11 about more of Judith's antics regarding sources.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4953685

New York Times reporter Judith Miller will be interviewed again today by prosecutors about the leak of CIA agent Valerie Plame's identity. Miller clashed with special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald and initially went to jail rather than testify. Much has been written about the special prosecutor and the Times reporter.

But one aspect of their relationship has been largely overlooked -- the two have tangled before.

In fall 2001, Miller and Times Washington correspondent Philip Shenon were reporting on Islamic charities suspected of funnelling money to al Qaeda.

At that time, Fitzgerald was leading the prosecution as the newly named U.S. attorney in Chicago. He and the Justice Department argued that Miller's calls while working the story tipped off a foundation to an impending raid -- a charge the Times rejects.

Is this why Judith wanted a limit on the scope of Fitzgerald's questioning? So he wouldn't get into questions on these other cases? Is this why she went to jail, rather than answer questions about other cases? It gets curiouser and curiouser.

[rosesaylavee]

1. I heard yes, she didn't want to be pulled into that again and

that was why the original agreement was made to stick to talking about Libby.

[targetpractice]

8. Her lawyer clarified on Hardball

Bennet, Miller's lawyer, said the deal with Fitz was to limit her testimony to "the Plame matter". Chris Matthews took that to mean Libby, but Bennet corrected him by saying again, "No. Limited to the Plame matter."

[SoCalDem]

2. Isn't that the one that Norquist was involved in??

I know there was an agency that he was connected to, and after the initial mention, the whole thing died down

[Emit]

11. Here's a blog post about a Miller/Norquist theory

Judy Miller and another Norquist theory

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Josh Marshall reminds us that Patrick Fitzgerald has a history of run-ins with Judy Miller:

Don't forget: This isn't the first time Plame prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has tangled with Judy Miller while investigating a leak out of the Bush White House...

~snip~

Downthread, a TPM poster asks this reasonable question:

What reason would Miller have to protect these charities? HLF was a palestinian-run org. I think Benevolence and Global Relief Foundation were saudi.

Well, what if Judy was helping Karl Rove and Grover Norquist out?

This goes back to a long-running feud in Republican and neocon circles that intensified after 9/11. Originally, the conflict was between establishment Republicans and Israel's American Amen Corner, which contained a likudnik faction which devoted a fair amount of hasbara time to demonizing Muslims and Arab Muslims in particular. Grover Norquist, being the conservative BaseMeister I keep harping about, was trying to bring muslims into the conservative fold, arguing (correctly) that they held shared views on many issues dear to social conservatives. Read this article by Norquist in which he explains, in part...



Cont'd at:
http://ancapistan.typepad.com/unfairwitness/2005/07/judy_miller_and.html

[IChing]

3. Ok now things are really starting to stack up like a train at station

1. tipped off a foundation of an impending raid
2. received a fake anthrax letter
3. A US government security clearance
4. promoted the lies of WMD in her reports

[IChing]

4. nominated n/t

[slaveplanet]

9. you forgot

her active pursuit of fucking "power"
http://dailykos.com/story/2005/7/8/16033/61733

Nine years into her tenure at the New York Times, she participated in John Poindexter's disinformation campaign against Libya for the Reagan administration.  As Bob Woodward later revealed in the Washington Post, Miller planted Poindexter's propaganda in her own writings:  claiming that el-Khadaffi was being betrayed from within his own country, that he had sunk into depression, and that he had turned to drugs.  Miller went on to claim Khadaffi had tried to have sex with her, but lost interest when she claimed Jewish heritage.  

.. in the October 1989 issue of the much-missed mag:

There was every reason to believe that when Judy Miller was moved from her post as deputy Washington bureau chief late last year, her long-standing custom of getting indecorously close to highly placed male sources would end. She is attracted more to the power the men in her orbit have than to the men themselves; her first words upon entering a room are often "Okay, who's important here?" The list of middle-aged, quasi- available powerguys from Judy's colorful past is a long one, incorporating everyone from guitar-picking Republican national chairmen to anchorgirl-dating former assistant secretaries of State.
...
Such interpersonal skills Judy no doubt put to good use in her days as a corre-spondent in Paris, Beirut and Cairo. Regarded by her peers as a dogged, talented journalist, she received more ambivalent reviews for her after-hours work. Fellow female correspondents in Beirut had a very rough nickname for Judy - "Egregious Cunt" - which some of them abbreviated (E.C.) and had silk-screened onto T-shirts.

It all seems quite an efficient MO for an operative

[bostonbabs]

5. ...have not heard this!...thanks

[NoBushSpokenHere]

6. What was the outcome of the former case? n/t

[deminks]

7. From the article in the OP

(snip)

Last winter, a federal judge dismissed the subpoenas in the Islamic foundations case. Fitzgerald is still appealing that decision.

(end snip)

That is the latest I have seen.

[deminks]

10. Kicking once in case anyone needs the info. nt.