judith miller is a cunt

It's Baaaccckkkk!!!!!

2008-10-20T15:02:00.004-05:00

Miller will be an on-air analyst and will write for Fox's Web site. "She has a very impressive resume," says Senior Vice President John Moody. "We've all had stories that didn't come out exactly as we had hoped. It's certainly something she's going to be associated with for all time, and there's not much anyone can do about that, but we want to make use of the tremendous expertise she brings on a lot of other issues. . . . She has explained herself and she has nothing to apologize for."

source

Actually, she has about 100,000 somethings to apologize for, no?

Ah, Judy...they still love you...

2006-11-15T23:20:00.000-06:00

DCist:

Over at the National Press Club, they are hosting their 29th Annual Book Fair and Author Night! Ninety authors will be in attendance! Pat Buchanan will terrify you! David Corn will gloat! Michael Isikoff will steal glances at his Blackberry and nod knowingly! Bill Frist will diagnose your maladies from across the room! Byron Dorgan will…uhm…share his recipe for popovers. The full details here, including a seating chart! Would you rather be paying $25 to watch Judith Miller polish her turd of a career? Heck no!

Judith Miller Testifies in Israeli 'Torture' Case

2006-11-13T17:58:00.000-06:00

Judith Miller Testifies in Israeli 'Torture' Case:

During the Salah interrogation, Miller said, 'I studied him closely because I was very concerned that he had been tortured.' Instead, she said, Salah was 'very conversational,' and often giving lengthy answers and talking about 'distributing money to people preparing military operations in the West Bank.'

On cross-examination, attorney Deutsch suggested repeatedly that Miller had a bias towards Israel and her sources in Israeli intelligence. 'I consider myself a friend of some Israelis,' Miller said. 'I don't consider myself a friend of Israel.'

She declined to comment to E&P following her testimony.

'Have you ever acted as a 'asset' of Mossad? 'Deutsch asked, referring to the Isareli spy agency.

'No sir,' Miller said, with a soft chuckle.

Judith Miller Thanks You for Your Righteous Adulation of Judith Miller

2006-10-27T23:14:00.000-05:00

Judith Miller Thanks You for Your Righteous Adulation of Judith Miller - Gawker:

Apparently missing the sweet taste of martyrdom's liqueur, former New York Times reporter, WMD confabulist, and leak-protecting jailbird Judith Miller sent out a letter to 600 friends thanking them for their support during her time in the clink. Naturally, by 'thank,' Judy means, 'how wise you were to agree with me.' In her own words: 'I chose to defend your right to know and you were kind enough to write to support my stance.' Take your pick of the worst offense, from Miller or the Washington Post paraphrase:

She spends the rest of her time as an unofficial Joan of Arc for First Amendment issues. 'It is a position I did not seek,' she said yesterday, 'and I hope I don't have to turn it over to someone else.'

Joan of Arc? At least Joan had the decency to remain silent after getting burned to a crisp. Don't think that's an apt analogy? Once again, the problem is probably you, since as Miller sniffs, 'Ordinary people get it.'

Oh, Judy: Miller Had 9/11 Warning Info, But Didn't Report It

2006-05-18T16:09:00.000-05:00

Oh, Judy: Miller Had 9/11 Warning Info, But Didn't Report It:

As I say above, Judith Miller is a Cunt

In an interview with the Web site Alternet.org, Miller now claims she had advance intelligence information leaked to her months before the Sept. 11 attacks indicating Al Qaeda was planning a major attack on the United States.

Posted today, the story contends that Miller was sparked by the October 2000 attack on the USS Cole to increase her reporting of al-Qaida. She says that ultimately led, in July 2001, 'to a still-anonymous top-level White House source who shared top-secret NSA signals intelligence (SIGINT) concerning an even bigger impending al-Qaida attack, perhaps to be visited on the continental United States.

'Ultimately, Miller never wrote that story,' the Alternet piece continues. 'But two months later -- on Sept. 11 -- Miller and her editor at the Times, Stephen Engelberg, both remembered and regretted the story they 'didn't do.''

'So I sometimes think back, and Steve and I have talked a few times about the fact that that story wasn't fit, and that neither one of us pursued it at that time with the kind of vigor and determination that we would have had we known what was going to happen,' Miller told the Web site. 'And I always wondered how the person who sent that [intercept] warning must have felt. You know, sometimes in journalism you regret the stories you do, but most of the time you regret the ones that you didn't do.'

Engelberg also remembered the tip, according to told Alternet. 'I recall thinking it made perfect sense at the time,' he told the Web site. 'The Cole attack was out of character -- unlike the Africa embassy attacks, the Millennium plot, the earlier World Trade Center bombing.'

Later in the story he says, 'Judy had two guys talking, but no names or details ... Judy had the what, but not the who and the where. I said, 'Check with the CIA, NSA, DIA. But we couldn't get anything that week.'

'NY Times' and 'Time' Will Let Judge Review Plame Notes

2006-05-17T12:15:00.000-05:00

'NY Times' and 'Time' Will Let Judge Review Plame Notes:

The Post also stated that 'much of yesterday's hearing concerned the notebooks of former New York Times reporter Judith Miller, who spoke three times with Libby about Wilson's work in June and July 2003 and made repeated reference in her notes to Plame. Miller has said she also discussed Plame with other officials but could not recall their names. But she did not write an article about the matter.'

The Times has given Libby a 'redacted copy of the notebooks,' but his attorney, William Jeffress, argued that Libby needed to see other names and phone numbers in Miller's notebooks to find out who else discussed Plame with her.

Jeffress plans to call six journalists to testify at the trial, with each expected to testify that during their conversations with Libby about Wilson in 2003, he never mentioned Plame's name, according to the Post.

Judith Miller, the Cunt of Journalism, returns; pimps upcoming book in wsj

2006-05-16T23:30:00.000-05:00

She's Baaack: Judith Miller Writing About WMD for the 'WSJ'

the article is here, but, oddly enough, it has no mention of the book she will be releasing on the subject; that is rather odd, isn't it?

Libby's Latest Filing Puts Judith Miller on the Spot

2006-05-04T00:57:00.000-05:00

Analysis: Libby's Latest Filing Puts Judith Miller on the Spot:

Judy Miller handed them her own head on a platter — maybe that was intended, I dunno, that whole intertwined aspen roots turning together nonsense — but if this case goes to trial, it’s going to be an ugly ride for Judy on the stand. That it will come from her own words and her own writings makes it all the more powerful.

Judge Who Jailed Judy Miller Says He Made Right Call

2006-04-29T22:24:00.000-05:00

Judge Who Jailed Judy Miller Says He Made Right Call:

And, of course, Judith Miller is a Cunt agrees.

'Miller wasn't an innocent bystander, Hogan said. 'She was an actor in the commission of a crime,' he said. 'She was part of the transfer of information that was a crime.'

Judith Miller: Bush sycophant and greasy government toady, meet a REAL journalist: Jack Anderson

2006-04-19T20:31:00.000-05:00

Jack Anderson was a patriot with a deep and abiding love for his country and its people. While he firmly believed in the essential goodness and wisdom of its people, he was often critical of those in government who wield power. He felt strongly that the role of a free press was to stand as sentinel, ready to sound the alarm when government overstepped its bounds. In Jack Anderson’s view, a journalist’s sacred duty was to criticize government when appropriate in the hope that it might do better. The press was certainly never intended to serve as the government’s handmaiden. As Mr. Anderson explained regarding his reporting on the Nixon Administration: “I have always published what I thought the American people ought to know.… Occasionally the decisions have been agonizing ones. But usually, when something has come across my desk classified as a national security secret, it has involved the misdeeds and manipulations of people who had abused the public trust, and then had swept the evidence under the secrecy stamp.” Similarly, he wrote about the fundamental precepts he learned from his mentor Drew Pearson who “took pains to inculcate his convictions on the moral objectives of the newspaper column and the just society: to champion the cause of the voiceless instead of the dominant, the dissenter as well as the organization, the helpless against their exploiters, the small enterprise over the octopus, the public’s right to know and control rather than the official’s prerogative to conceal and manipulate.” In short, his views can best be summed up as follows: Ours is a government of the people. The people are the sovereigns; those who work in government are our servants. We the people have the right to know what our servants are doing when they act in our name. In Mr. Anderson’s view, this bedrock principle could not be otherwise; for, as he emphasized repeatedly: “The stakes are too high in a democracy where everything rests on an informed people.”

Judith Miller in Lover's Spat with Scooter Libby

2006-04-18T20:13:00.000-05:00

Media Lawyers Oppose Libby Subpoenas:

"Lawyers for Miller said Libby is improperly seeking access to her telephone records and calendar _ 'personal and sensitive professional references' that are completely unrelated to Libby or the CIA leak case."

Judith Miller's Stench Still Reeking at the New York Times, Despite efforts to fumigate...

2006-04-13T00:11:00.000-05:00

Keller of 'NYT' Wants to Turn the Page on Judith Miller Saga (Again)

On the attempt to distance itself from 'the Tokyo Rose of the Bush-Cheney War Axis or the Typhoid Mary of the New York Times newsroom.'

Thomas Jefferson: On Reading Judith Miller

2006-04-11T23:28:00.000-05:00

I never realized that Judith is that old...

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle. The real extent of this misinformation is known only to those who are in situations to confront facts within their knowledge with the lies of the day...the man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.

- Thomas Jefferson, 1807

Miller Invited to View Torture of Terror Suspect in 1993 by Israel > More court time for Miller in Chicago

2006-04-08T22:15:00.000-05:00

ABC7Chicago.com: Terror suspect alleges feds in Chicago covering up torture evidence:

"Oh, staff, pack my Luis Vuitton, I'm off to Chicago..."

Salah's lawyers claim the court is aware of the material and that prosecutors are engaged in a 'dishonest obstruction of justice,' that the court and prosecutors are constantly 'consulting with each other so that certain evidence remain secret, which leaves the defense in the dark..'

Salah's lawyers are now injecting controversial former New York Times reporter Judith Miller into the case, saying that in 1993 Israeli officials allowed her to witness the Salah interrogation, and therefore, the governments cannot claim material from what she witnessed is now suddenly classified.

Salah's lawyers want access to Israeli documents that would explain why Judith Miller was allowed to witness the Salah interrogation and even participate in it, playing the good cop as Israeli authorities played bad cop.

It is not the first time Miller is in the middle of a courtroom firestorm. Last year Miller served jail time for contempt of court after refusing to disclose her sources in the White House leaks case.

Maureen Dowd: Bush Should 'Fire Himself' For Libby/Miller Leak

2006-04-08T21:49:00.000-05:00

Maureen Dowd: Bush Should 'Fire Himself' For Libby/Miller Leak:

Maureen Dowd with a fresh look at our favorite neocon leakstress/cunt:

The Bushies once more showed incompetence by creating this elaborate daisy-chain leak and giving it to the one person in journalism who had been roped off from writing about the prewar intelligence, while her editors sorted out problems with her past W.M.D. coverage. ...

If the administration were seriously trying to declassify something in the national interest, wouldn't it have President Bush explain his decision or have his Scottish terrier yip it out from the podium, rather than having Scooter whisper it in Judy's ear?

Instead, sounding very Lewis Carroll, the White House claims that when the president leaks something secret, it's not secret anymore. It's the Immaculate Declassification: intelligence is declassified by passing it on to a friendly reporter.

Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks to Judith Miller

2006-04-06T11:16:00.000-05:00

: Libby Says Bush Authorized Leaks (04/06/2006):

"Two days after Wilson's op-ed, Libby met with then-New York Times reporter Judith Miller and not only disclosed portions of the NIE, but also Plame's CIA employment and potential role in her husband's trip.

Regarding that meeting, Libby 'testified that he was specifically authorized in advance... to disclose the key judgments of the classified NIE to Miller' because Vice President Cheney believed it to be 'very important' to do so, the court papers filed Wednesday said. The New York Sun reported the court filing on its Web site early Thursday.

Libby 'further testified that he at first advised the Vice President that he could not have this conversation with reporter Miller because of the classified nature of the NIE,' the court papers said. Libby 'testified that the Vice President had advised [Libby] that the President had authorized [Libby] to disclose relevant portions of the NIE.'"

Judith Miller's New Excuse: The "slanderous" bloggers destroyed her.

2006-03-21T00:16:00.000-06:00

Judith Miller's New Excuse - The former Times reporter tells Vanity Fair the "slanderous" bloggers destroyed her. By Jack Shafer:

HA HA!

Miller describes to Vanity Fair the process by which the Pajama People destroyed her:

The bloggers were without editing, without a way for people to understand what was good, what was well reported—to distinguish between the straight and the slanderous. Things would get instantly picked up, magnified, and volumized.

(Sounds more like what my hairdresser does with my thinning locks. But never mind.)

In Miller's mind, the bloggers not only poisoned her relationship with the Times brass but also with her colleagues, who, she says, "believed what they read on the blogs."

Libby's Lawyers Serve Subpoenas on Miller, N.Y. Times

2006-03-16T11:24:00.000-06:00

Libby's Lawyers Serve Subpoenas on Miller, N.Y. Times:

"The subpoenas, the newspaper said, seek Miller's notes and other materials, including any other documents concerning Valerie Plame 'prepared by Ms. Miller and Nicholas D. Kristof, an Op-Ed columnist for The Times; drafts of a personal account by Ms. Miller published in The Times in October concerning her grand jury testimony; documents concerning her interactions with an editor of The Times; and documents concerning a recent Vanity Fair article on the investigation."

Top Iraq war correspondents discuss risking their lives to tell a truth that few believe or want to hear

2006-03-14T22:58:00.000-06:00

Top Iraq war correspondents discuss risking their lives to tell a truth that few believe or want to hear:

"Meanwhile, two reporters who were not present cast long shadows over the journalistic exchange: the constant deadly threat faced by reporters was symbolized by Jill Carroll, the Christian Science Monitor freelancer kidnapped in Baghdad in January and still missing, while the damage to journalistic reputations and credibility was embodied by controversial former New York Times reporter Judith Miller."

Patrick Fitzgerald vs. Judith Miller redux

2006-02-24T16:02:00.000-06:00

The American Thinker

Yesterday’s appearance in Manhattan before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit was another instance of Mr. Fitzgerald trying to find out about Ms. Miller’s sources, this time by looking at the New York Times’s phone records, and prosecutors raised the prospect of pressing her directly yet again, as they did in the Plame case to disclose the sources.

At the center of this leak case is the question of how Ms. Miller, who has since left the paper, and a second Times reporter came to learn of the government’s plan to take action in the wake of September 11 against two Islamic organizations suspected of having terrorist ties.

Judith Iscariot: Miller sells journalism down the river. Again.

2005-11-28T22:06:00.000-06:00

Reason: Judith Iscariot: Miller sells journalism down the river. Again.:

"To put it as plainly as possible, Miller didn't want to testify about the Vice President's right hand man not because he forbade her to—on the contrary, he gave her his authorization from the get-go—but rather because she had good reason to believe Libby wanted her to lie. And in Judith Miller's bizarre, journalistically compromised world, it is less important to catch a powerful official in a blatant lie than it is to protect your friendly relationship with a productive, high-ranking source."

Miller present at 1993 torture of Salah

2005-11-27T16:05:00.000-06:00

Miller Could be Called to Testify in Terror Case:

"Sun-Times staff reporters Annie Sweeney and Lisa Donovan reported that a filing in U.S. District Court in Chicago by Salah's attorneys alleges that Salah was beaten, threatened with rape and forced to sit handcuffed in a painful condition during interrogations by Israeli soldiers in 1993. Salah signed several incriminating statements and spoke on an audio tape saying the confessions were true, according to the filing.

'In an odd twist, the interrogation was witnessed by embattled New York Times reporter Judith Miller, and defense attorneys suggested Monday the best way for the U.S. government to prove its case -- and prove Salah wasn't abused -- is to call the controversial journalist to the witness stand,' the Sun-Times story says."

`Dishonest and reprehensible' words from Dick Cheney

2005-11-26T18:29:00.000-06:00

KR Washington Bureau | 11/23/2005 | `Dishonest and reprehensible' words from Dick Cheney:

"What Cheney et al. wanted in that speech [Powell's at the UN], and what Tenet vouched for, and what Miller wrote about, turned out to be bogus. It didn't exist, although the Department of Defense spent a year and millions of dollars combing the deserts and cities of Iraq searching for it with Miller looking over their shoulders and urging them on."

'Scoops' and Truth at the Times

2005-11-26T17:44:00.000-06:00

'Scoops' and Truth at the Times:

From the June 5, 2003 issue of The Nation.

"Miller and the Times consented to prepublication approval of her piece by the military. 'Those officials asked that details of what chemicals were uncovered be deleted,' Miller wrote. 'They said they feared that such information could jeopardize the scientist's safety by identifying the part of the weapons program where he worked.' (Why his safety would be in question with Saddam vanquished was not explained.)"

...

"Miller allows sources to hide their identities in order to advance a self-serving agenda. Using unnamed sources is a common and necessary technique in journalism. But sources should not be allowed to remain unnamed when the information they are imparting serves to directly advance their own and their employers' objectives. In other words, a reporter needs a very good justification for not naming a source--usually because a source is saying something that could get him or her in big trouble with some powerful entity. But what kind of trouble could befall some unnamed Pentagon source who is leaking material in accord with the objectives of the current Administration? The principal motive for remaining under cover in such circumstances, besides preserving deniability, is to gain greater currency for the leaked material, as something that has received the imprimatur of our internationally recognized "newspaper of record," the New York Times."

The Man Who Sold the War -- and the cunt who helped...

2005-11-26T00:08:00.000-06:00

RollingStone.com: The Man Who Sold the War : Politics:

"The INC's choice for the worldwide print exclusive was equally easy: Chalabi contacted Judith Miller of The New York Times. Miller, who was close to I. Lewis Libby and other neoconservatives in the Bush administration, had been a trusted outlet for the INC's anti-Saddam propaganda for years. Not long after the CIA polygraph expert slipped the straps and electrodes off al-Haideri and declared him a liar, Miller flew to Bangkok to interview him under the watchful supervision of his INC handlers. Miller later made perfunctory calls to the CIA and Defense Intelligence Agency, but despite her vaunted intelligence sources, she claimed not to know about the results of al-Haideri's lie-detector test. Instead, she reported that unnamed 'government experts' called his information 'reliable and significant' -- thus adding a veneer of truth to the lies.

Her front-page story, which hit the stands on December 20th, 2001, was exactly the kind of exposure Rendon had been hired to provide. AN IRAQI DEFECTOR TELLS OF WORK ON AT LEAST 20 HIDDEN WEAPONS SITES, declared the headline. 'An Iraqi defector who described himself as a civil engineer,' Miller wrote, 'said he personally worked on renovations of secret facilities for biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in underground wells, private villas and under the Saddam Hussein Hospital in Baghdad as recently as a year ago.' If verified, she noted, 'his allegations would provide ammunition to officials within the Bush administration who have been arguing that Mr. Hussein should be driven from power partly because of his unwillingness to stop making weapons of mass destruction, despite his pledges to do so.'

For months, hawks inside and outside the administration had been pressing for a pre-emptive attack on Iraq. Now, thanks to Miller's story, they could point to 'proof' of Saddam's 'nuclear threat.' The story, reinforced by Moran's on-camera interview with al-Haideri on the giant Australian Broadcasting Corp., was soon being trumpeted by the White House and repeated by newspapers and television networks around the world. It was the first in a long line of hyped and fraudulent stories that would eventually propel the U.S. into a war with Iraq -- the first war based almost entirely on a covert propaganda campaign targeting the media."

The Man Who Sold the Iraq War -- link to audio interview.

2005-11-25T17:53:00.000-06:00

The Man Who Sold the Iraq War: John Rendon, Bush's General in the Propaganda War (Video) | MediaChannel.org:

"JAMES BAMFORD: That's right. And how this comes full circle is that the Rendon Group created the I.N.C., put in Chalabi in there, and then now we have December of 2001, right after the September 11 attacks, and while the administration is gearing up to sort of get the public behind the administration in going into war in Iraq. So up until this time it had been all speculation about what had been going on in terms of Saddam's use of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and now the I.N.C., the Iraqi National Congress, comes up with this defector who is telling this huge lie about where all of these weapons are being hidden.

AMY GOODMAN: And they know it’s a lie?

JAMES BAMFORD: Well, I don't know when they knew it, but they certainly should have known it at some point, that the C.I.A. person who walked out of the room wasn't smiling about all of the happy news he was hearing –

AMY GOODMAN: And the guy who did the lie detector test said, “He is not telling the truth.”

JAMES BAMFORD: That’s right, exactly, and it didn't seem to make much difference, because they called in the press, and the two people that they called in, ironically one of them was Paul Moran who had formerly worked, not only for the I.N.C., but also for the Rendon Group. So you have a journalist who has the worldwide broadcast exclusive for this interview with this defector who is telling a lot of lies, who actually had formerly worked for the group putting this show on the road, and then they called in Judy Miller, who was going to be granted the worldwide print exclusives. And Judy Miller, in her own words in a memo she wrote to her bureau chief in Baghdad at one point, mentioned that for a decade Chalabi had been one of her key sources and that he was responsible for many of the front page stories on W.M.D. in The New York Times.

So, they called in these two very sympathetic journalists to broadcast this story, and it made huge news. It came out, I think it was December 20, 2001, and again it made a great impact, because this was the first time that an actual eyewitness was able to say that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons. So, this was a major milestone in the road to the war. And from then on, the I.N.C. began coming up with other defectors, and The New York Times and other organizations started promoting the war. But a lot of it had its origins with this first defector, al-Haideri."

Embedding and the Road to Disgrace: The Bob and Judy Show

2005-11-25T17:40:00.000-06:00

PopPolitics.com: Embedding and the Road to Disgrace: The Bob and Judy Show:

"When the Pentagon first announced its plan to “embed” reporters into military units, back in those heady days shortly before the beginning of the War in Iraq, when visions of weapons of mass destruction and flower throwing Iraqis were still dancing in Neocon heads, the idea was widely described in the press as a major innovation; it wasn’t, of course. It was merely the next logical step in a process that had long since become standard operating procedure in the Bush Administration’s relationship with the media.

Judith Miller, for example, became embedded in the Bush Administration’s war machine beginning almost immediately following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Bob Woodward signed on somewhat later. From its inception, the relationship between the White House and these two Alpha journalists was a symbiotic one: To the aging media luminaries, the relationship offered the insider access that is the most coveted of all prizes in today’s lazier-than-a-pig-wallowing-in-mud-non-investigative-journalism. And with access came goodies: Front page stories in The Times for Miller; rich book deals for Woodward."

A black mark for media

2005-11-25T17:26:00.000-06:00

A black mark for media - The Boston Globe

Judith Miller's WMD reporting - New York Times war reporting - Hunt for WMD

2005-11-25T12:01:00.000-06:00

Judith Miller's WMD reporting - New York Times war reporting - Hunt for WMD

For the next two years, she supplied the paper with a string of grim exclusives. There was the defector who described Saddam Hussein’s recent renovation of storage facilities for nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. There was her report that a Russian virologist might have handed the regime a particularly virulent strain of smallpox. To protect themselves against VX and sarin, she further reported, the Iraqis had greatly increased the importation of an antidote to these agents. And, most memorably, she co-wrote a piece in which administration officials suggested that Iraq had attempted to import aluminum tubes for nuclear weapons. Vice-President Dick Cheney trumpeted the story on Meet the Press, closing the circle. Of course, each of the stories contained important caveats. But together they painted a horrifying picture. There was just one problem with them: The vast majority of these blockbusters turned out to be wrong.

“She’s a shit to the people she works with,” says one. “When I see her coming, my instinct is to go the other way,” says another. They recite her foibles and peccadilloes, from getting temporarily banned by the Times’ D.C. car service for her rudeness to throwing a fit over rearranged items on her desk.

The Sins of Judith Miller

2005-11-20T21:51:00.000-06:00

AlterNet: MediaCulture: The Sins of Judith Miller

Perfect: "She's Inspector Clouseau turned loose by the Perle/Cheney gang, bumbling her way through a fragile and dangerous world, leaving reputations shredded, international relations damaged, and facts scattered far and wide. Why top management at an institution that is normally fierce about staff errors continues to tolerate this is a continuing mystery."

Miller Time (Again) - The New York Times owes readers an explanation for Judith Miller's faulty WMD reporting. By Jack Shafer

2005-11-20T21:48:00.000-06:00

Miller Time (Again) - The New York Times owes readers an explanation for Judith Miller's faulty WMD reporting. By Jack Shafer:

An inspired article from Jack Shafer from Feb. 2004--interesting that he uses the 'stenographer' reference Maureen uses in her piece.

"Indeed, it's Miller who seems clueless about how investigative reporting works. Earlier in the program, she describes her role as the conveyor of official news rather than a skeptical reporter:

My job was not to collect information and analyze it independently as an intelligence agency; my job was to tell readers of the New York Times as best as I could figure out, what people inside the governments who had very high security clearances, who were not supposed to talk to me, were saying to one another about what they thought Iraq had and did not have in the area of weapons of mass destruction.

Where did Miller learn the art of journalism? The job of a good reporter—investigative or otherwise—is more like that of an intelligence analyst than a stenographer. A good reporter is supposed to dig for the truth, no matter what 'people inside the governments' with 'very high security clearances' might say. The very point of Massing's objections about the prewar WMD coverage is that Knight Ridder folks got closer to the truth with blue collar sources than did Miller with all of her 'inside' sources."

bob woodward is a cunt too...

2005-11-16T15:37:00.000-06:00

Woodward Apologizes to Post for Withholding Knowledge of Plame:

"The disclosure has already prompted critics to compare Woodward to Judith Miller, the former New York Times reporter who left the paper last week--after serving 85 days in jail in the Plame case--amid questions about her lone-ranger style and why she had not told her editors sooner about her involvement in the matter. Miller discussed Plame with I. Lewis 'Scooter' Libby, who was Vice President Cheney's chief of staff and has now been indicted for perjury and obstruction of justice. Woodward said he testified that Libby did not discuss Plame with him.

Both Woodward and Downie said they are not sure that The Post could have done anything with Woodward's 2003 conversations because they were conducted on an off-the-record basis. Woodward said the unnamed official told him about Plame 'in an offhand, casual manner . . . almost gossip' and that 'I didn't attach any great significance to it.'"

Daily Kos: More About Judith Miller

2005-11-15T19:50:00.000-06:00

Daily Kos: More About Judith Miller:

"Thanks to news articles written by others we know more about Kelly's e-mails than Judith Miller revealed to readers of The New York Times... and more importantly, we know that Kelly wrote at least one e-mail that Miller failed to write about.

Jamie Macaskill, for example, filed a story in The London Sunday Mail on July 20, 2003 entitled: Dark Actors Playing Games:

SUICIDE scientist Dr David Kelly warned a friend that 'dark actors' were working against him just hours before his death. Dr Kelly revealed his fears shortly before killing himself after being dragged into the row over the Government's justification for war in Iraq. In an email to American author Judy Miller, sent just before he left his home for the last time, he referred to 'many dark actors playing games'.

But, according to Miller, Dr Kelly gave no indication he was depressed or planning to take his own life.
He told her he would wait 'until the end of the week' before deciding his next move following his traumatic appearance before a House of Commons select committee...

In fact, Judith Miller apparently knew David Kelly rather well. She had quoted him in several of her earlier articles going back to 1998, and according to the Globe article referenced above, Kelly had helped her write her book about Weapons of Mass Destruction published several years before.

One would have thought that Miller would have regarded her relationship with Kelly as well as her contact with him just before his death as 'scoop' material. Instead she failed to let her readers even know that she had enjoyed a long and close association with him. Even more odd, she left out the provocative e-mail he had written her just prior to his death while writing about a more innocuous one sent to an 'associate.'

I find Miller's behavior in the Kelly story rather odd, to say the least. Unlike the Plame story, Miller did ultimately write about Kelly, but she camouflaged her own involvement and left much of what she knew out of the piece. I can't pretend to know what role Miller played in the Plame saga, but I am now wondering whether she is being looked at as a possible accessory, rather than as a journalist who is protecting her sources. If that is the case, her efforts to rally the journalistic community to her aid represent a cynical charade."

Participant List: Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop - Aspen Institute

2005-11-12T17:58:00.000-06:00

Participant List: Aspen Strategy Group Summer Workshop - Aspen Institute

This from August 2000...What was she doing there?

Top 10 Career Moves for Judith Miller

2005-11-09T21:02:00.000-06:00

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Daily Kos: Judith Miller: 3 Decades of Disinformation

2005-11-08T21:04:00.000-06:00

Daily Kos: Judith Miller: 3 Decades of Disinformation

A very well-written, researched post showing the pattern and practice of Miller...

'WSJ' Seeks 8 Pages of Redacted Info in Judith Miller Case

2005-11-08T15:57:00.000-06:00

'WSJ' Seeks 8 Pages of Redacted Info in Judith Miller Case

Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller

2005-10-29T10:46:00.000-05:00

The Times Scoops That Melted - Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller. By Jack Shafer:

An examination of her deceptiveness in her pre-war stenography.

"Cataloging the wretched reporting of Judith Miller."

Maher: “Judith Miller Genuine Draft: It's brewed at the White House and cold-filtered through the New York Times. ”

2005-10-28T13:30:00.000-05:00

Bill Maher :: The Official Website

This excerpt from the Bill Maher show explains best her cunticity:

From the 10/28 show

MAHER: Yeah, and it's rubbed off. What about the New York Times? Now, they're in a bit of trouble because of this scandal. We talked about them here on the show last week. Do you think that's damaging to this very esteemed paper, that they were involved in basically misleading a lot of people?

THOMAS: All the newspapers were, in that sense.

MAHER: Yeah, but all the newspapers aren't the “paper of record.” All the newspapers aren't trusted by, especially, the liberals in this country. And as I was saying last week, when the liberals read something in the New York Times that's supportive of a conservative administration, we tend to go, well, then it must be true.

From the 10/21 show:

MAHER: [overlapping]—I don't think she should have gone to jail at all. I think she went to jail as a smokescreen, because everybody, she thought, would say, “Well, she went to jail; she's a martyr; we'll ignore this other stuff.” But, you know what? I think you're right, Spike. [applause] The – in a backhanded way, it's a compliment to the New York Times. Because if—

CARLSON: But don't you think you should get some perspective, like, on life? It's a newspaper. It's a daily, metropolitan newspaper. It's not the Congress. It's not – right? I mean, it's not the Pentagon. It doesn't have the power, really, to do anything.

LEE: So New York Times has no weight in the world today?

CARLSON: No, it has a lot of weight, but it only has the weight you give it.

LEE: Whoa, whoa.

MAHER: [overlapping] The New York – but the whole country gives it that weight.

Two SPJ Chapters Criticize Group's Award to Miller

2005-10-27T15:34:00.000-05:00

Two SPJ Chapters Criticize Group's Award to Miller:

"We deplore the careless and deceptive use of confidential sources, as exemplified in Judith Miller's reporting. We urge journalists to hold each other accountable before the government claims even more sweeping rights to interfere in the editorial process, eroding still further this country's noble ideal of a free press."

judith miller is a cunt

2005-10-22T21:01:00.000-05:00

t r u t h o u t - Maureen Dowd | Woman of Mass Destruction

"Judy's stories about WMD fit too perfectly with the White House's case for war. She was close to Ahmad Chalabi, the con man who was conning the neocons to knock out Saddam so he could get his hands on Iraq, and I worried that she was playing a leading role in the dangerous echo chamber that former Senator Bob Graham dubbed "incestuous amplification." Using Iraqi defectors and exiles, Mr. Chalabi planted bogus stories with Judy and other credulous journalists.

Even last April, when I wrote a column critical of Mr. Chalabi, she fired off e-mail to me defending him.

When Bill Keller became executive editor in the summer of 2003, he barred Judy from covering Iraq and W.M.D issues. But he admitted in The Times' Sunday story about Judy's role in the Plame leak case that she had kept "drifting" back. Why did nobody stop this drift?

Judy admitted in the story that she "got it totally wrong" about WMD "If your sources are wrong," she said, "you are wrong." But investigative reporting is not stenography."