Judith Miller: From the Times to the nuts

[RandySF]

Judith Miller used to be a superstar. She was a major reporter at the New York Times for decades -- at the DC bureau, in Cairo, in Paris, special correspondent to the Persian Gulf, embedded with a special unit in Iraq. She had the best sources. She had amazing scoops. Now she's writing -- on contract, not full-time -- for Newsmax, a goofy right-wing magazine where conservatives you've never heard of (and John Stossel, apparently) report, constantly, that Barack Obama is bad and unpopular. It's a steep fall, and it couldn't have happened to a worse journalist.

Since her early days at the Times, when she inserted CIA misinformation into a piece on Libya, she's always been a tool of power. She was the voice of the Defense Department, embedded at the Times. She was hyping bullshit stories about Iraq's WMD capabilities as far back as 1998, and in the run-up to the war, her front-page scoops were cited by the Bush administration as evidence that Saddam needed to be taken out, right away.

Lying exile grifter Ahmad Chalabi fed her the worst of the nonsense designed to push America into toppling Saddam Hussein (and giving Iraq to him), and she pushed that nonsense into the newspaper of record. She got everything wrong, and for some insane reason, she remained employed at the Times until 2005, when she negotiated her separation from her longtime professional home.


http://www.salon.com/news/media_criticism/index.html?story=/politics/war_room/2010/12/30/judy_miller_newsmax

[pscot]

1. Karma is a bitch

[PassingFair]

2. A pay-off, of sorts.

Give her a couple of months, and
she'll be with the Washington Times.

Her column can run next to Ted Nugent's
editorials.

[NeoConsSuck]

3. She should be grateful she is still alive

she is a war criminal, not a journalist.

[66 dmhlt]

4. Payback: Now she has to work w/ John STOSSEL

[rhett o rick]

5. There is a special place in hell for Judith Miller. nm

[Rex]

6. She was a useful tool for the GOPukers, I love how they discard their

now worthless toys into the nutball toybox never to be seen again. Maybe she can do standup in the bathrooms of retail stores with Ann Coulter.

[hadrons]

7. Her editors at the Times are just as guilt ....

her crimes are their crimes

[DCKit]

8. It was all Cocaine Import Agency approved propaganda. nt