Can Judy Miller be indicted for her "forgetfulness"

[Logiola]

http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2005/1020nj1.htm

would be funny if she was let out of jail to testify and then gets indicted for perjury

[sallyseven]

1. I hope so. I don't trust her

she is lying her head off. Smug bitch,. She is hiding something and I hope that she gets indited for lying

[ElectroPrincess]

2. Oh yes, that would be grand!

She is not a role model of morality ... to say the least. :puke:

[AngryAmish]

3. ask l'il kim

[Demobrat]

4. Didn't she say in last Sunday's NYT piece

that she was told by Fitzgerald that she was not a target, just a witness?

[gkhouston]

9. Nope. Her lawyer said that she no longer had to worry about

contempt-of-court charges for not testifying. Doesn't mean she can't be indicted for perjury. :7

[GayCanuck]

5. The question is

who else is she protecting that her employer doesn't her to reveal????????? maybe cheney himself?, the chimp?, Wilson???

[emrenz]

6. She's smitten, I think.

I think she's caught up in her own celebrity. Every time there's a camera on her she's beaming. I think she's loving her moment in the spotlight and I'm sure I smell a book deal. I don't know what to believe about her and I'm sure she'll suggest you read her book if you want to learn more.

[PurityOfEssence]

12. Good. The ignominy will hurt just that much more.

The ultimate punishment for a narcissist is to be disgraced and ignored. This is already happening: she sinned against the soul of journalism by being a deliberate propagandist to fulfill her personal need to risk world destruction to buttress Israel, and she will be even more reviled as time goes on. The only interest the outside world will have in her is for statements to defend herself, and she'll wait by the cobweb covered phone.

What she's done is heinous, and she did it in the most amateurish and petulant way. Her downfall is one of juvenile lying in various attempts to cover her tracks as she betrayed the very definition of her profession. As a vain and posturing egotist, the shots she sustains will pang her greatly, but she'll still skate from the recriminations and humiliation she truly deserves.

[sendero]

7. Personally..

.... I'd love to see a bunch of "journalists" indicted. There ought to be consequences for telling lie after lie after lie.

[Logiola]

8. i remember right before she went to jail..

she said something along the lines of there are very powerful people she has to worry about.. anyone remember this? the quote?

[Wordie]

10. Don't know, but here is some interesting speculation:

<snip>
The Israeli penetration of our national security has been put in the spotlight, lately, by the indictment – and guilty plea – of former Pentagon analyst Larry Franklin on charges of spying for Israel. During his tenure as the Pentagon's top Iran specialist, when he worked for Doug Feith, Franklin was caught red-handed funneling highly classified information to Steve Rosen, AIPAC's chief lobbyist, and Keith Weissman, AIPAC's top foreign policy analyst, who then passed the stolen secrets on to the Israeli embassy. The interconnectedness of the investigation into AIPAC's treason with Fitzgerald's probe is underscored by the following passage from Franklin's indictment:

"On or about June 3, 2003, Franklin met with FO-3 at the POAC , and the discussion centered on a specific person, not in the United Status government, and her thoughts concerning the nuclear program of the Middle Eastern country and, separately, certain charity, efforts in Foreign Nation A."

If Franklin and his Israeli handler – a nuclear weapons specialist – were talking about a woman whose "thoughts concerning the nuclear program" of a certain "Middle Eastern country" had some significance, then surely Judith Miller is a likely candidate. When we add in the business about "certain charity efforts in Foreign Nation A," the identification becomes even more credible: "Foreign Nation A" is Israel, the "charity efforts" consist of work on behalf of the Iraqi Jewish Archive, a joint project undertaken by Miller, Harold Rhode (Franklin's associate – and fellow suspect – in Feith's policy shop), and Ahmed Chalabi. It might be said that these efforts on behalf of the Archive are not taking place "in Israel," as the wording of the indictment puts it, but the ultimate location of the archives is uncertain, and surely Israel is one very possible destination. In any case, it can safely be said that this is a project undertaken on Israel's behalf.

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=7717

[Garbo 2004]

13. No, her statement to the court before the judge sentenced her to jail

had bits of it regarding the first amendment and the power of the gov't taken out of context in a CBS article. And then some folks here ran with it, erroneously claiming that Miller said was "scared" and frightened for her own safety from the gov't.

[writes2000]

11. An experienced attorney just commented about this

He speculated that Fitz would be unlikely to prosecute her in part because he needs her testimony against bigger fish.

I don't remember the exact article but it made some sense to me.

[Kber]

14. Maybe, maybe not

but she should be fired!